We live in an era where everybody with a Stew-Mac catalog and a spray gun considers himself to be a “luthier”, but true luthiers, men (and, with a particular nod to Linda Manzer, women) who can build musical instruments that set standards for tone, construction, and beauty — well, they are rare.

Rarer now, with the announcement that Kalamazoo’s Aaron Cowles passed away last week.
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