Adam Jarvis
I have always had a passion for music, studying the double bass as part of the jazz course at the Royal Academy of Music and the Birmingham Conservatoire. I continue to play profesionally with various groups including folk septet The Fair Rain and jazz/pop trio Buzzard Lope, but in 2012 I discovered a passion for luthiery whilst attending a guitar making course led by Richard Osbourne with my Father, Daniel and Brother, Tim. Since then, I started building a guitar in my father's workshop in Varaignes, France and have now setup my own workshop in an old printing factory in Balsall Heath, Birmingham where I continue to build bespoke, steel string guitars.
Dan Jarvis
In October 2011 I fulfilled a life-long ambition to combine my love of woodwork and of the acoustic guitar and attended a month-long course at the European Institute of Guitar Making, where I constructed my first classical guitar. The course was based in the workshop of Stephen Hill in La Herradura in Spain. Stephen was an excellent teacher, and he was ably assisted by Pablo Requena. An end of course concert was held in former home of Andres Segovia, where my guitar was played by Dale Harris