Welcome to Guitarnz
This site is a centre for New Zealand guitarists to access useful guitar related information and to communicate with each other. Of particular focus is the need for our teachers to establish a nationwide group and liaise in a friendly manner with the aim of exchanging ideas and techniques and establishing certain standards and protocols.
The differences in technique and teaching methods are not an issue.
We can all benefit from the experiences of others and raise the already high standard of teaching and playing in this country. Whether you want music, recordings, to find a guitar maker, a teacher or news about coming concerts, you will find help here.
Another area of great interest is the history of classical guitar in New Zealand. Prior to 1950 little is known about our guitarists and makers.
Louis Panormo came here in 1840 and numerous of his guitars and the guitars of other famous makers turn up from time to time. Who played them and who taught them to play? If you have the merest morsel of information please let us know, as the smallest clue can lead to revealing important and previously lost aspects of our guitar history. The guitar history page will show you what we have already.
I have set up this site to benefit and inform New Zealand guitarists.
I have spent sixty years playing and promoting the classical guitar and have seen it come from complete obscurity to a present day state of reasonable prominence. The job is by no means finished. The more we perform and teach and the better we become at doing that, then the guitar will take its full and rightful place in the musical spectrum. To do this we can take on the modern electronic wonders and combine these with the older materials and provide a broader and speedier path to that goal.
This web site was prepared by Phil Read guitarist and teacher and Michael O’Brien. Michael is a creator of top quality web pages using a lifetime of graphics and computer experience. Without his help these pages would be only mediocre. Click the Em Squared Acoustico link at the bottom of this page to contact him. Thanks Michael.
Phil Read
Oamaru
