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About Will Bright
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My name is Will Bright, and I have been a musician for over fifteen years. I grew up in New England and moved to Santa Cruz, California after graduating from Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
I began playing guitar in grade school, followed quickly by the bass, and have studied privately with several teachers in rock, jazz, classical, and fingerstyle. I also attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston for a summer program when I was fifteen. Over the years I have picked up the four and five-string banjos, and a little mandolin.
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As a young player, I had a modest collection of inexpensive instruments; electric and acoustic guitars, and electric basses.
My father had a work shop over the garage, and whenever anything went wrong with one of my instruments (and sometimes even when nothing was "wrong") I would take it out to the shop rather than pay a professional repairperson.
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Will sanding a 6 string bass neck.
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Despite my lack of formal training, nothing ever left my Dad's shop in worse condition than when it came in and, more importantly, my love for lutherie was born. |
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Me with Victor Wooten. A high point of my retail gig.
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I began my formal career as a Luthier in a repair shop in Santa Cruz. I did setups and repairs on all types of stringed instruments; guitars, basses, banjos, mandolins, the entire violin family, and some more exotic world instruments such as charrangos, ouds, guitarrons, and vihuelas.
Working in the repair shop was great, but it didn't fulfill my creative drive, and an overwhelming urge to build my own instruments compelled me to begin building mandolins in my spare time at home, in the corner of my laundry room.
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| I have since moved to a new, larger shop, and have diversified into much more than mandolins.... |
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