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Solo Act
FromThe Distance
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Length:
15 minutes
Released:
Feb 14, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Bruce Roper never planned to start a business. As a teenager, he wanted to be a Beatle. As an adult, he moved to Chicago after a brief stint running a music store and began fixing guitars. Over the next quarter century, Bruce built up a modest but steady one-man business repairing and building instruments, as well as teaching guitar building. Bruce's students come to him seeking the secrets of making guitars, but he's the first to say there are no secrets. It's just a matter of doing it, and there's no substitute for the decades of experience Bruce has accumulated.
Released:
Feb 14, 2017
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (84)
Homestead for the Holidays: The Richardson family arrived in Spring Grove, Illinois in 1840, when brothers Robert and Frank each claimed 80 acres of farmland that had become available for homesteading. Successive generations of Richardsons tried their hand at cash crops, dairy cows by The Distance