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Michael Wright is a professional writer, historian, musician, and guitar collector who has been involved with the guitar since he began playing the ukulele in 1952. He has performed and taught a variety of acoustic and electric music, including classical guitar, and spent many years programming and hosting the all-guitar radio show, "Guitaromania" in Milwaukee and Philadelphia. He is ABD in Victorian English literature (with a minor in the History of Science) from the University of Wisconsin, and makes his living as an advertising creative. Michael's interest in guitars is eclectic and tends to focus on subjects generally ignored by other writers and collectors, including obscure brands and aspects of guitar history that have had little authoritative research. His series of histories of "cool guitars" are found in Guitar Stories, Volume 1 (1995) and Guitar Stories, Volume 2 (2000), both published by Vintage Guitar Books. He is the author of the histories contained in the authoritative The Official Vintage Guitar Price Guide, and is a member of the Guitar foundation of America, the Galpin Society, and the Philadelphia Classical Guitar Society. He also served as a consultant to Boston's Museum of Fine Arts guitar design exhibit, "Dangerous Curves" which included numerous instruments from Michael's collection. |
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