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Mel Wong
Blackbird String Arts
Mel Wong builds period string instruments — lutes, vihuelas, baroque guitars, archlutes, and theorbos — at Blackbird String Arts in San Francisco, working in the historical building tradition since he started in 1975 after training under Ervin Somogyi and Robert Lundberg.
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