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Who is Ronan?
A luthier (a maker and repairer of stringed instruments) based in Tours.
He specializes in the setting, repair, and restoration/customization of guitars, basses, and other plucked string instruments like mandolins and ukuleles.
He plans to build a very small number of guitars himself each year (one or two).
What services does Ronan offer?
Instrument Setting and Repair: He offers various levels of service, from partial revisions (starting at €33) to complete settings (€66).
Customization: He can customize instruments based on player preferences.
Workshops: He organizes instrument adjustment workshops for the public. Cost: €150 per participant.
Duration: A morning.
Content: Participants learn the basics of maintaining their instruments, including changing and adjusting string heights, cleaning microphones, and sometimes rewriting for electric instruments.
Goal: to help musicians optimize their playing comfort based on their playing style (e.g., low strings for fast playing like metal, higher strings for projection in country/folk).
Frequency: Initially planned twice a month.
Importance: These are the first of their kind organized in Touraine.
ronan’s beliefs and Approach:
Knowledge Transmission: he is passionate about teaching and sharing his expertise.
teaching Experiance: He also teaches organology (the study of musical instruments) at the European Technological Institute of Music Professions in Le Mans.
Ethical and Ecological Approach:
He offers alternative materials for instrument parts (e.g., synthetic bone, brass, or silver rather of beef bone nuts) to accommodate customer convictions.
He promotes the recovery and enhancement of materials.
He is partnering wiht Atlanta Formation for their “recy-tie” project, which gives a second life to used instrument strings by collecting them, selling the metal to scrap dealers, and donating the profits to associations promoting musical culture.
Guitar Tours will become a relay point for this project in Tours.
Other Luthiers in the Tours Area:
the article mentions other violin services available in Tours and the surrounding area:
Gus le Doc Rue Voltaire (in Tours)
Hendrick Music (in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire)
Bertrand Moguérou (in Vernou-sur-brenne)
Ronan is a skilled luthier in Tours who not only provides expert repair and customization services but also actively engages in teaching and promoting sustainable practices within the music community.
