Michael Greenfield | Building Guitars That Thrill and Inspire

Life With Strings Attached

I’m pleased to announce that my guest this week on Life With Strings Attached is guitar maker Michael Greenfield.

Michael is passionate about tone. Great tone. FAT tone. Squeezing every last molecule of tone out of his instruments. Prior to making the commitment to build full-time, he spent 20 years repairing and restoring vintage instruments. He has also been a player for 60 years; so perfect feel, buttery-smooth playability and road-worthy stability are what his instruments are all about.

Each of Greenfield’s guitars is designed with AI – Acoustic Intent. Having crafted several hundred guitars in his 30 years as a career guitar maker, his most important revelations about the instrument cannot be seen. He constantly researches the history, mechanics, dynamics, and physics of the guitar to cultivate a deeper understanding of what makes it work, and how he can continue to advance and control each instrument’s voice.

Michael carefully handcrafts a limited number of exquisite acoustic guitars each year in his Montréal shop. His guitars address the needs of traditional and contemporary players of all musical styles. His goal is that you be thrilled, not merely satisfied with your new guitar!

Michael enjoys an international reputation of crafting some of the finest guitars available. Some clients of profile include Andy McKee, Pipo Romero, Paul Stanley, Colin Hay, Tony McManus, Charlie Hunter, Pat Martino, Keith Richards, Pierre Bensusan, Steffen Schackinger, Emmanuel Rossfelder, Philippe Mariotti and many more.

We covered a lot of ground in this conversation, and I hope you enjoy listening.