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George Lowden was born on 1951 in Bangor, County Down, is a George Lowden is luthier. Discover George Lowden's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 72 years old?

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Age 72 years old
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Birthplace Bangor, County Down
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George Lowden is a luthier based in Downpatrick, County Down, Northern Ireland.

He constructs steel and nylon string acoustic guitars by hand without any UV finishing as well as solid-body electric guitars.

1925

As a celebration of this long journey, Lowden designed the 25th anniversary limited edition model.

"My aim with the design and build details was to make available in reasonable numbers, a guitar which was as close as possible to the guitars which I am only able to build personally for a very few players each year under my full name. I therefore included as many as I could of the construction, voicing and cosmetic details, found in my own guitars in this limited edition of 101 instruments."

By this time, the community of Lowden enthusiasts had grown considerably.

Players were attracted by Lowden's tone and quality, and by the fact that they were not mass-produced.

To fulfill requests for ‘special edition’ Lowdens, Lowden designed the Millennium Twins.

"As a luthier, I find that designing a few ‘special’ guitars does stretch my creative abilities and I enjoy that challenge. I believe this does help to develop the art of guitar making in a much wider sense as well. I introduced the limited edition Millennium twins with their matching sets of figured walnut back and sides and adjacent sets of redwood tops sourced from trees, which had fallen naturally."

1952

George Lowden was born in Bangor, Northern Ireland in 1952.

He made his first guitar at the age of 10.

1974

Lowden founded George Lowden Guitars in 1974 at the age of 22 and soon completed Lowden guitar serial No.1.

1976

Lowden used A-frame bracing on his first guitars, but from 1976 he used his own modified A-bracing system with a dolphin voicing profile which in many ways established the Lowden guitar's unique sound.

His first Irish studio/workshop, in 6a High Street, Bangor employed four trainee guitar makers, Colin ‘Dusty’ Miller, Frank Kernaghan, Sam Irwin and Michael Hull.

Approximately 100 guitars were produced during this period, and can be identified by their small blue rectangular labels.

1980

Beginning in 1980, Lowden licensed manufacturing of his guitars to a small group of master luthiers in Japan, near Nagoya.

Initially four models were soon being produced within a few years this had risen up to 15 and by the mid 1980s up to 1,000 Lowdens were being produced in Japan.

1985

In 1985, as a result of the rise in interest for all electronic instruments in music, sales of acoustic instruments slumped worldwide and the owners of the Japanese factory decided to close it and move production of Lowden guitars to a larger factory where other rival brands were made.

Lowden was concerned about this outcome, and decided to try setting up a new factory in Ireland.

With little capital and through the help of an investor (David Jebb), he rented a building in the Balloo Industrial Estate in Bangor, County Down and began to employ and train new craftsmen.

1990

The acoustic guitar market had begun to flourish again during the 1990s, but the company, significantly hampered by under-investment, had not been able to achieve its potential.

1998

In November 1998, keen to participate in a progressive plan to develop the business further, George Lowden, along with Steve McIlwrath and Alastair McIlveen, set up a new holding company to buy a controlling interest in the Lowden Guitar Company.

Lowden's vision was, "...that the company should become as good as the guitars themselves…"

In November 1998, a visitor to the factory showed up, guitar case in hand, with the Lowden guitar serial No. 1, the very first guitar Lowden designed and built.

This was an excellent reminder of how far the Lowden Guitar had come.

2002

In 2002 the company introduced the more affordable Avalon range.

2003

In 2003, the licence with the Lowden Guitar Co ended and production of Lowden guitars at the Newtownards factory ceased at the end of December 2003.

2004

Since 2004, Lowden guitars have been manufactured by a family-run company in Downpatrick, County Down.

Among the artists who have played Lowden guitars have been Damien Rice, Jan Akkerman, Pierre Bensusan, David Gray, Michael Hedges, Jacques Stotzem, Richard Thompson, Luka Bloom, Dermot Kennedy, Niall Horan and Ed Sheeran.