Dear Earth, Dear Mother, It is from you that all living things spring. You have nurtured so many varied communities of plants and animals; neighborhoods of symbiotic vitality and energy, every one interdependent on the other—each life maintained by the power of the sun,...

Try the powerhouse Bedell Spotlight Limited Edition Dreadnought Cutaway Bluegrass is bound by tradition, but it was born of innovation. Bill Monroe supercharged old time country music—especially the Scots Irish ballads and fiddle tunes he’d heard as a child—by blending in the blues feeling he’d...

Swietenia macrophylla. Big leaf mahogany. Often called Honduran mahogany or genuine mahogany, by any name it is one of the world’s most renowned tonewoods, a precious commodity grown naturally only in a thin band from southern Mexico to northern South America. It is the...

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Bend, Oregon offices and workshops of two Old Hippies Stringed Instruments  (Breedlove, Bedell & Weber) will be closed until Monday, April 20th. This closure will allow us to protect the health, employment and benefits of all CoHippies, who...

Two Old Hippies Stringed Instruments invites musicians to ask important questions and participate in saving the planet one guitar at a time. Two Old Hippies Stringed Instruments—makers of Breedlove Guitars, Bedell Guitars and Weber Mandolins—is inviting players of all levels to participate in saving...

No other guitar top tonewood has the history, the ambition, or the sheer power, sustain and dynamic range of Adirondack spruce. Brazilian rosewood, with its haunting, swirling purple hues and its sweet thunderstorm of overtones, may well be the most vaunted guitar tonewood of...