Podcast 340: Rudy Pensa on the Blue Guitar Collection

Famed guitar dealer Rudy Pensa (Rudy's Music!) joins us on this
week's Fretboard Journal Podcast to talk about one of the world's
most noteworthy guitar collections ever assembled, Scott
Chinery's Blue Guitar Collection. In the mid-1990s, inspired by
the blue Centura Deluxe he ordered from Jimmy D'Aquisto, Chinery
commissioned twenty-plus archtop guitar makers to do their own
take on a "blue" guitar, all using the same finish tint. Famed
builders like Kim Walker, Linda Manzer, Tom Ribbecke, Bill
Collings and Bob Benedetto were included, along with
contributions from Gibson and Fender.

The Blue Guitars would eventually be showcased at the Smithsonian
and be the subject of a book, Blue Guitar. With Chinery's passing
in 2000, the guitars have been out of sight but Rudy, at the
request of the Chinery estate, is now auctioning off the
collection (including the D'Aquisto) as a single lot. We talk to
Pensa about the guitar collection, his personal love for archtops
(dating back to when he was a child in Argentina) and much
more.

The Blue Guitar Collection can be seen in its entirety at Rudy's
site here, including videos featuring Jason Isbell, Joe Bonamassa
and David Broza playing the guitars. It's also available for
viewing at Rudy's store.

https://www.rudysmusicbluecollection.com


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