“Fine Custom Handbuilt Guitars.”
Kevin Muiderman (pronounced like “Spiderman”) is a guitar maker and guitar player currently living with his family on the plains of North Dakota. He is gaining attention from professional players around the world for his innovative “double top” (aka “sandwich top”) guitars and his use of graphite composite bracing.
Over the last decade Kevin has developed sandwich tops and alternative bracing designs which provide the concert classical player and the professional steel string player greater dynamic range than previously available.
Testimonials
“[My] four Kevin Muiderman instruments...are the best instruments I have ever owned.”
“It’s the greatest-sounding acoustic bass I’ve ever played.”
“My Muiderman instruments (Jumbo 6-string, Mandola, 9-String Baritone) have to be heard to be believed- acoustically and plugged-in there simply isn’t anything like them. Beautifully built with powerfully defined full-range voices, they make me want to play more music and take my time when I do.”
“I have never played a better instrument than my Muiderman. I have become a better guitarist because of it.”
“My Muiderman Low Strung Fan Fret is a powerhouse of sound, [I] love it.”
Muiderman Guitars are a blend of traditional hand-craftsmanship and new acoustic technology. In recent years, luthier Kevin Muiderman has added the scientific method to the traditional craft of building guitars. Combined with the use of the finest tonewoods, his experimentation with carbon fiber laminates, “double tops” and non-traditional bracing methods have produced guitars—both classical and steel string—that deliver a boldness, volume, and clarity of note not found elsewhere.
Having been a woodworker, sculptor, and guitar player for years, building guitars had been a dream since childhood. So, back in the early '90s, he trained with master guitar makers Ivon Schmukler and Alan Chapman at Leeds Guitar Maker's School in Northampton MA. In addition to learning the craft of building traditionally constructed instruments, Kevin studied Alan Chapman's methods for designing and building carbon fiber, lattice-braced guitars using "test bed" techniques to work through designs before going into production.
Muiderman Steel String Guitars are particularly suited for finger-style players, rhythm players, and flat pickers who demand extra responsiveness, a piano-like attack, and single-note clarity. The guitars’ dynamic range affords players satisfying articulation and musical expression.
Muiderman Classical Guitars, while maintaining the warmth of traditional instruments, have a particular evenness of tone and impressive volume, which allows even the subtlest of musical expressions to carry to the back of an auditorium.