Press kit
The history of Ted guitars began in 1997. It is made up of encounters, numerous tests, rich and varied collaborations, failures and successes, great challenges above all, it is now written with the guitarists who dared to choose different aluminum guitars entirely made in France.
Vision
Ted Guitars was born from a passion for the guitar and for inventing objects.
The concept came to fruition through the desire to offer very special products: one-of-a-kind aluminum guitars.
Today, the general trend of combining technological innovation and respect for the environment invites us to no longer consume as before. However, when we buy just for pleasure, we easily give up these new principles.
Ted Guitars has therefore taken up the challenge of applying reasoned manufacturing methods to one of the most beautiful gifts a guitarist can give himself: an aluminum guitar.
While other manufacturers claim excellence in manufacturing and sound quality, few can boast of innovation and French production.
But Ted Guitars doesn't rest on the glory of its innovations.
In choosing aluminum as a raw material, Ted has grafted a philosophy that combines the excellence of sound and the excellence of its partners and resources, making Ted Guitars the most French brand of aluminum guitars there is.
Here, no dubious origins of exotic woods, no microphones from another hemisphere, no assembly line machining or knockdown prices on the Internet.
The choice of special woods, the development of specific microphones, the assembly method and the excellence of the product also call for a marketing logic in accordance with a philosophy. Because defending good sound and beautiful objects does not go without also defending essential players in this market: instrument stores, and above all, the precious expertise of those who share the same passion for the guitar.
When you buy a Ted, you have in your hands a unique object, the first agreement of which was made with a state of mind, a vision of the world.
A Ted guitar has its reason for being, whether scratched by the fervor of an inflamed guitarist, or simply displayed to make the wall of his living room shine, before the next opportunity to make the aluminum ring.
ORIGINS
His friends call him Ted. The same ones with whom he started playing guitar as a teenager.
After completing his engineering studies, Ted dreamed of a resonator guitar, but couldn't afford a Dobro. He decided to build one.
But instead of copying, he invented. A unique resonator attachment, and above all, the choice of aluminum for a body three times lighter and a much more pleasant patina than those in mirror-polished stainless steel. The challenge he then took up was to make a unique guitar that would increase his playing pleasure tenfold.
At the Blues Passion Festival in Cognac in 2001, this unique copy landed in the hands of Keb' Mo', a blues guitarist who at that time already had two Grammy Awards under his belt. Not only did Ted approach one of his idols, but she made the guitar he had made sound like never before. Keb' Mo' even wanted to buy it!
Ted and Keb'Mo', Blues Passion festival 2001.
28Saphyr
With this luxury encouragement, Ted gave birth to Bauxite in 2005, his first electric guitar.
A few years later, Morvan Prat (guitarist of 28Saphyr, composer of Liz Cherhal), who heard Ted's guitars, asked him to make one for him. Together they designed Saphyr. This second guitar triggered something in Ted, who thought that his passion could surely take him further.
Ted Guitars was launched, with only one idea in Ted: to create electric guitars in aluminum, and French!
The pedigree of a Ted guitar is local woods, shaping in Gironde, and specific microphones developed in collaboration with the CREL company in Pau.
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