Flammang Guitars Receives Premier Guitar’s Premier Gear Award

March 4, 2010 - PRLog -- The Flammang Grand Concert Acoustic has been awarded a Premier Gear Award in the March 2010 issue of Premier Guitar.

The Premier Gear Award is an honor bestowed upon a piece of gear—whether guitar, amp, effect, or other gear— that has been extraordinary enough to impress the staff of Premier Guitar. Despite the high quality of all gear reviewed by Premier Guitar, only exemplary items earn the award.

“The Druids of ancient Ireland called themselves ‘carpenters of song,’” says reviewer Gayla Drake Paul. “Once in a while you find a guitar that lives up to that idea. This one does… Gorgeous woods and sweet understatement meet under six strings and sing like angels.” Premier Guitar awarded the Grand Concert Acoustic a rating of 5.0, the highest possible rating. The full review can be accessed at: http://www.premierguitar.com/Magazine/Issue/2010/Mar/Flammang_Grand_Concert_Acoustic_Guitar_Review.aspx

“I feel honored that Premier Guitar chose the GC60-LD for the Premier Gear Award.,” says Flammang Guitars owner/builder David Flammang. “It is exciting for my work to be recognized by such a magazine. The GC-LD, in particular, is designed mainly for the contemporary fingerstyle player, but it also is intended to have a sweetly controlled voice when strummed. The great part of my job is to think that I may contribute, with any of the models I make, to the beautiful music they may help produce.”

“Premier Guitar reviewers are an elite bunch,” says Premier Guitar’s editorial director Joe Coffey. “We’ve been playing out with our own bands for years and are actively recording. Some of our reviewers are professional studio hounds or touring techs. Oh, and we’ve all been clinically diagnosed with G.A.S. (gear acquisition syndrome). In other words, our standards are based on the rigors of serious use, so we go through a lot of gear. For a guitar, amp, effect, etc. to win a Premier Gear Award is no simple feat. When you see that designation on a product reviewed in our magazine or as a web exclusive on premierguitar.com, you know that it is in a special class of its own.”

About Flammang Guitars (http://www.flammangguitars.com/):
Based in Greene, Iowa, the focus of Flammang Guitars is to build an instrument that produces a strong, rich and well-balanced voice.

About Premier Guitar (http://www.premierguitar.com):
Offering guitarists news, gear info and education/instruction, Premier Guitar is the multimedia resource for players who are serious about their tone. Premier Guitar’s gear-centric print magazine has a monthly circulation of 32,000; the industry's only complete and freely accessible digital magazine (digital.premierguitar.com) that serves more than 40,000 readers every month; a mobile app that is now available for free download featuring content in its entirety from current and past issues (itunes.apple.com/us/app/premierguitar/id357976896?mt=8); a Web site (www.premierguitar.com) that's the fastest-growing portal in the guitar industry with an average of more than 700,000 unique visitors consuming more than 17 million page views per month; and the market's leading interactive gear search service that attracts more than 200,000 monthly visitors (www.premierguitar.com/gear/gear_search.aspx). In total, the Premier Guitar monthly magazine content is read by over 675,000 unduplicated guitarists, with 30% of this readership being international. Premier Guitar also publishes a weekly e-newsletter, Backstage Pass, which serves over 80,000 subscribers. Premier Guitar is published by Gearhead Communications, LLC, a subsidiary of Premier Media Holdings, which also publishes the Guitar Edge multimedia network (www.guitaredge.com) in conjunction with the Hal Leonard Corporation (www.halleonard.com). Premier Media Holdings, LLC is employee-owned and based in Marion, Iowa with offices throughout the U.S.

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Premier Guitar offers guitarists a multimedia source for news, gear info and education/instruction, PG is the media home for players who are serious about their tone.