Sadowsky Guitars

I was recently invited to a screening of a new film called Under African Skies......a documentary celebrating the 25th anniversary of Paul S...

The first time Rickey came to my shop was about 23 years ago.  He had just become Whitney Houston's musical director at the age of 30 ...

Every few years, an article appears somewhere in the universe claiming to have discovered the "secret" of Antonio Stradivari.   So...

I just received the following email from Annie Harris regarding her daughter Aubrey. Dear Mr. Sadowsky   I just wanted to say t...

Hello Roger.  I just wanted to send an email expressing how impressed I am with you as a business owner and person. You always take time t...

May 30, 2011   Roger and Crew,   For the past five or so weeks I have had in my position a wonderfully crafted LS 17. The guitar i...

In 1990, I had just completed my first Electric Nylon guitar when Pierre DeBeauport, then guitar tech for The Rolling Stones, came to the sh...

There has been a lot of media coverage of the second raid on the Gibson factory in Nashville by armed U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents on Aug...

I go back a long time with John Abercrombie...and was very proud when one of the T-style guitars I made for him became his main axe for many...

During the late 80's, one of the guitar magazines was doing an article on me and sent Jonnie Miles to do photography.  I recently came a...

Bob Mann has been a studio giant for decades......producing, arranging and playing guitar with Linda Ronstadt, James Taylor, Steve Tyrell an...

Long time Sadowsky player, Paul Adamy, was recently featured with his daughter Julia in the AFM magazine, International Musician. I go ba...

I was in Seattle two weeks ago and paid a visit to my friend and Sadowsky Metro dealer, Evan Sheely, owner of Bass Northwest. Evan has a ...

I go back with Jeff Golub to the early 80's and my first shop at 168 Madison Avenue.  I just discovered this letter on his website, date...

I celebrated my 62nd birthday today! Given that I just signed a 10 year lease on the new shop, I'm not going anywhere.   I love my wo...

In 1971, while working on a doctorate in psychobiology, I purchased the Whole Earth Catalog. They had two pages devoted to guitar making, i...

We are finally settling in at our new shop in Long Island City. Sorry it has been so long since I've posted but the move consumed me f...

We had a good 9 year run at 20 Jay Street.  Thanks to all of our customers who visited during these years.   Here is the shop as we left it ...

As we wait for a verdict in the Barry Bonds trial, I remembered something my amazing webmaster, Kevin Drexler, made for me during the origin...

Thanks to Megan Blythe and her Dad for developing this new economy model: Dear Roger, I have been pining over a new bass for months now,...

Thanks to Kevin Borden for including me in his Premier Guitar article "Milestones In Vintage Bass Evolution": Roger Sadowsky:  ...

A very nice post by Terry Liberty on the Jimmy Bruno Forum: http://www.jimmybruno.com/forum I got a chance to see and hear Jim Hall last...

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/musicnightlife/2014467214_juanes12.html Special thanks to Suzi Pratt for permission to use her fabul...

I am very pleased to see Juanes use his new Sadowsky in this new video!

Resistance is Futile!!! I know this is a very obtuse pun, but this is former tennis star Bjorg Borg. After resisting as long as I could, ...

After 9 years in Brooklyn, we will soon be moving to Queens (Long Island City).  We had to move as the landlord is renovating the entire flo...

Here is another photo of my early hippy days as a guitar maker.... Here I am with one of my dulcimers which I probably built in 1973.

During 1970-1972, I attended graduate school at The Institute of Animal Behavior at Rutgers University.  I was working on a Ph.D in Psychobi...

Roger,         Just wanted to pass along some positive info. I am an audio engineer and guitar/bass/string instrument technician. I recent...

I am very proud of the awesome amount of coverage we received in the January 2011 issue of BassPlayer magazine. Front Cover: Rickey Minor,...

For all of you reading this blog who are not from the US, we just celebrated our Thanksgiving Holiday.  Part of this holiday tradition is th...

This is a photo of me restoring a Martin C3 archtop that belonged to a fantastic guitarist named Benji Aronoff.      This was during my 5 ...

I am very proud of all of our friends who won at the 11th Annual Latin Grammy Awards in Las Vegas on November 11th.  Juan Luis Guerra won th...