Colder days coming - time to prepare your guitar for winter

Now is the time to make sure that your humidifiers are ready and that your guitar is prepared for the coming winter.

Winnipeg winters are particularly hard on acoustic instruments because of the dry heat that is in most of our homes. Furnaces, electric heaters and fireplaces may keep us warm, but they also dry out our environment. This lack of humidity does damage to the glue that holds the instrument together not just to the wood itself.

We have humidifiers for guitars as well as for smaller instruments such as violins and ukuleles.

Also you may notice your guitar is no longer playing as well as it has earlier in the summer. This is a natural result of the change in temperature and humidity and can in most cases be corrected quickly in our shop. We do these minor "truss rod" adjustments free on the spot. For bigger problems we can set up the instrument back to the way you remember it.