With more than 39 years experience as a guitar teacher, player, and consultant, Richard Glick is comfortable dealing with casual musicians and museum curators alike. At 'FGC,' a/k/a Fine Guitar Consultants ( FineGuitarConsultants.com), clients include players, collectors, design industry professionals, and top recording artists from across the U.S. and nine countries abroad.

Richard has inspired thousands of people to play and/or rediscover the guitar and continue their learning. As a music teacher, guitar consultant and writer, he aids many in choosing the right instruments for their personal playing styles and physical "fit." Click here to read a letter in which a client eloquently wrote about his experience with Richard.

Richard has given his guitar workshop on "Choosing The Right Guitar for You" at two Healdsburg Guitar Festivals, at The First World Guitar Congress at Towson University in Maryland, the Classic American Guitar Show on Long Island, NY, and for private groups.

As a player, Richard has entertained audiences from 20-2,000 in small concert venues and theaters from Miami to Moscow. Richard toured many times with composer/performer Muriel Andersen and Jean-Felix Lalanne of Paris. He has shared the bill with Pepe and Celin Romero, Christopher Parkening and Peter Sprague. His most memorable recent performance was a guest slot with Tommy Emmanuel last year. Here is a small piece of that video (with Tommy's permission).

Twenty-seven years ago, Richard and his full time partner and wife, Annetta Glick, began Ragtime Rare Guitars in South Florida. Knowledge and hands-on experience with vintage acoustics and electrics grew into the awareness and research of contemporary guitar making. Even back then, Richard and Annetta were more concerned about matching up the right instrument with each player than focusing on the money side of things...a harbinger of more to come...

Today, as a full time guitar consultant, Richard freely shares his enthusiasm for fine handmade guitars, resonators, and basses of all styles as well as handmade amplification and the finest in home stereo and home theater systems. Richard loves instrument grade woods and how they interact to produce a variety of musical tone. Select older woods are available for upgrades on client orders--most notably the Lucky 12 soundboards collection available exclusively from FGC. Well versed on players' needs, the Glicks represent more than 34 small luthiers, whose quality and consistency they respect. Aside from well-known small makers like, Benedetto, Klein, Somogyi, and Grimes, their ranks include makers whom they judge to be gifted and consistent up-and-comers in the top range of excellence they admire and support.
Richard has made himself available to do corporate workshops on "The Guitar as a Stress Management Tool." He is an industry consultant, and lends his expertise on tone wherever he discovers a small manufacturer who "cares more about making beautiful tone than making a more cost-efficient product." He has written articles for Mister Guitar. Richard is a contributing writer and consultant for Just Jazz Guitar Magazine. He has written a monthly column for 20th Century Guitar Magazine, called "Flat Top Talk," and has an onging series in Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine. He was a guest speaker at NAMM 2000 at the Los Angeles Convention Center, and moderated a panel discussion on the life and career of George Barnes at NAMM 2003 at the Anaheim Convention Center. Richard and Annetta Glick have been the subjects of in-depth articles and interviews in 20th Century Guitar Magazine and Just Jazz Guitar Magazine, as well as Fingerstyle Guitar Magazine. This link will take you to a reprint of the Fingerstyle article. An interview/article was also featured in Acoustic Guitar Magazine in Japan.
The Glicks publish FGC MagOnLine, an ad-free online guitar magazine on their web site.
Fine Guitar Consultants was a member of the International Music Products Association (the NAMM Convention) for many years, and is currently active with The Association of Stringed Instrument Artisans (A.S.I.A.) and the Guild of American Luthiers G.A.L.)
Services are available without charge to guitar clients.The web site provides further details. Fine Guitar Consultants, P.O. Box 15524, San Diego CA 92175-5524 tel (619) 265-5900 fax 619 265-2527 email: rglick@fineguitarconsultants.com