I sometimes wonder just how many people in top management positions at musical instrument manufacturers know about the products their companies make. Of course in smaller companies this is not as big of an issue because the owner or President is often times very involved in the production aspects. In larger companies however, it seems that more management positions deal with administration, and less with the actual instrument production.

At the NAMM show in January we were visiting the Taylor Guitars booth. We asked if we could shoot a short video with someone talking about a couple of the new guitars they were showing. To our surprise they brought in non other than Bob Taylor himself. Mr. Taylor had not idea we were going to do this, so he pretty much sat down with a couple of guitars and just talked about them. This ended up being among the best video footage we have ever shot. Bob knew these guitars well, and spoke with authority on them. This video was not edited in any way, but is rather a straight up improvisation. It is very clear from this video that Bob Taylor is very much involved with not only his company, but also with the guitars they produce.

We were able to talk to Bob for a few minutes after the video. Mr. Taylor is a class act, yet comes across as a humble and extremely nice guy. I hope that we can get some video footage of Bob Taylor speaking about more guitars next January.

Gary Allen