THE STORY OF AUDEN
Driving down a quiet residential street in a quiet market town in Northamptonshire, you might not expect to come across the biggest new name in UK acoustic guitar making, but breathing new life into the old red-brick co-operative society building at the corner of a leafy road in Higham Ferrers sits the headquarters of Auden Guitars.
Stepping inside the large wooden doors, however, and you’re instantly transported from quiet suburbia into the hustle and bustle of a luthier’s workshop – workbenches are set up with instruments in various stages of assembly on one side, down the corridor a team of young luthiers are hard at work shaping necks, sanding tops and setting frets, while in between a brand new spraying
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