A Life with Guitars :: Kenneth Brögger

As a very young man, Kenneth Brögger made his first miniature guitar with a pocket knife in a tent on the Danish island of Anholt. In this book you can read about his diverse, exciting and fascinating experiences with the guitar, as well as about the other guitar makers he has met in Denmark and abroad. Today, his classical guitars are appreciated and sold all over the world. Parallel text in Danish and English.

The book was written by guitar maker Kenneth Brögger, whose previous books include:

Classical Guitar Building (1st edition Christian Ejlers Forlag, 2019. 2nd edition Forlaget Roset, 2020).

Danish Guitars and Their Makers (Forlaget Roset 2001).

Synopsis of the book A Life With Guitars:

We were very young. A friend at school had dropped his guitar and broken it. He wanted to visit a guitar maker in Copenhagen to see if the guitar could be saved. He asked me if I wanted to go with him. I said yes. Every time the door of the guitar maker's workshop opened, a pick attached to the top edge of the door would strike the strings of a guitar hanging from the ceiling. They would let out a beautiful chord.

Everywhere there were guitars in various stages of workmanship, and the air in the workshop was filled with a wonderful fragrance of exotic woods: Alpine Spruce, Palo Santo de Rio, mahogany and ebony. The guitar maker examined the broken guitar and said he could repair it so my friend could play again. As he worked, the other people in the store told him all kinds of fascinating stories about guitars.

Overwhelmed by the incredible atmosphere, I ventured to tell the guitar maker that I too would like to be a guitar maker someday. I quickly sensed that he was not the first person who had expressed this desire. "Very well, young man. The first guitar you make will cost you $300 in materials, and you won't get more than $30 for it." But this did not deter me.

That day, my work plans for my adult life changed radically. I was going to be a guitar maker.

A Life with Guitars Fact Sheet

• Publication date: June 14, 2022
• Binding: Softcover
• ISBN: 978-87-988471-2-0
• Publisher: Roset
• Size: 21.7 cm x 27 cm
• 192 pages, richly illustrated.