{"id":14662,"date":"2020-04-23T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/?p=14662"},"modified":"2020-04-23T13:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-23T20:37:48","slug":"gretchen-menn-plays-leo-brouwers-etude-no-6-on-a-custom-santa-cruz-pj-parlor-guitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/gretchen-menn-plays-leo-brouwers-etude-no-6-on-a-custom-santa-cruz-pj-parlor-guitar\/","title":{"rendered":"Gretchen Menn Plays Leo Brouwer&#8217;s \u2018Etude No. 6\u2018 on a Custom Santa Cruz PJ Parlor Guitar"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Have you heard the music of Leo Brouwer played on a steel-string guitar? Don&#8217;t be surprised to hear classically-schooled rocker Gretchen Menn performing on this custom 2000 Santa Cruz PJ from <em>Acoustic Guitar <\/em>magazine&#8217;s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of the magazine&#8217;s 30th anniversary in 2020, we\u2019re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to bid on a piece of guitar history and support guitar education at the same time.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>50% of the net proceeds of this auction will be donated to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namm.org\/news\/press-releases\/namm-foundation-and-collings-guitars-announce-bill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Bill Collings Memorial Fund (opens in a new tab)\">Bill Collings Memorial Fund<\/a> in support of guitar education in public schools and public programs. Plus, we\u2019ll contribute $5 to the Collings Fund in the name of every bidder, whether they win at auction or not.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>The estimated value range for the Santa Cruz PJ is $9,200 to $13,800. What makes it special? \u201cWe took the design of guitars from the 1890s and early 1900s and made a modern instrument,\u201d says Santa Cruz\u2019s Richard Hoover. \u201cWe also included attributes such as an adjustable truss rod, and all we\u2019ve learned in the last 100 years of guitar making.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/store.acousticguitar.com\/collections\/30th-anniversary-guitar-auction\/products\/santa-cruz-pj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Check out the details and photo gallery plus a new video of Gretchen Menn playing this wonderful instrument (opens in a new tab)\">Check out the details and photo gallery.<\/a><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p>To learn about the other 11 guitars in this collection and place a bid, please visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acousticguitar.com\/auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">AcousticGuitar.com\/auction<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you heard the music of Leo Brouwer played on a steel-string guitar? Don&#8217;t be surprised to hear classically-schooled rocker Gretchen Menn performing on this custom 2000 Santa Cruz PJ from Acoustic Guitar magazine&#8217;s 10th Anniversary Collection. In celebration of the magazine&#8217;s 30th anniversary in 2020, we\u2019re putting our collection up for auction from April 20 through May 10, giving you the opportunity to bid on a piece of guitar history and support guitar education at the same time. 50% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14663,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[20,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sessions","category-watch","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/AG_Santa-Cruz-30-Anniversary-Auction-Featured-Image_2.jpg?fit=1500%2C1200&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}