This a vintage clip of guitarist Dan Hecht playing his Somogyi guitar with a custom pedal capo that he developed.
This is the first ever Somogyi Modified Dreadnought. Daniel was one of the early Windham Hill recording artist at the very birth of the solo Steel String guitar movement.

Dream Guitars Owner Paul Heumiller has been elected to the board of A.S.I.A, the Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans (http://www.guitarmaker.org/). This is the international community of instrument makers. Paul is very excited to bring his unique experience and perspective to the association.
We will be attending the Newport Guitar Festival (http://www.newportguitarfest.com/) in Ft. Lauderdale, FL April [...]

This old National was stripped and left to rust, the customer described what it looked like . We found some picks , confirmed the serial #, the original color formula, and a copy of the original stencil for the back.. The customer gave us a good budget to work with and we went for it.
Paint [...]

Monday Oct 19th
I performed at the New York song Witers Circle which takes place at The Bitterend every other Monday. It’s an instution put together and run by the extremely talented songwriter and singer, Tina Shafer. I couldn’t wait for all these acoustic guitar players to hear the Bravado. Tina hears a lot of acoustic [...]

Hello,
Well after a nice stint out on the west coast where I got to spend a few weeks in the Somogyi shop I finally had to bite the bullet and head home. It’s undeniably winter here in Winnipeg and I have my shop all bundled up with the heaters cranked and the humidifiers going full [...]