Eric Schoenberg is an American

guitarist A guitarist (or a guitar player) is a person who plays the guitar. Guitarists may play a variety of guitar family instruments such as classical guitars, acoustic guitars, electric guitars, and bass guitars. Some guitarists accompany themselv ...

known for his

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playing, as well as a recording artist and designer of acoustic guitars. He owns Eric Schoenberg Guitars, a guitar store in Tiburon, California, which sells vintage and luthier-made acoustic guitars. Eric and his cousin Dave Laibman were among the first transposers of classical piano ragtime to the guitar. This resulted in their album, ''Contemporary Ragtime Guitar'', on Folkways Records. He has performed, toured, recorded and written extensively.

Publications

*"Fingerpicking Beatles" published by Hal Leonard

Recordings

*''The New Ragtime Guitar'' (1971),

Folkways Records Folkways Records was a record label founded by Moses Asch that documented folk, world, and children's music. It was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in 1987 and is now part of Smithsonian Folkways. History The Folkways Records & Service ...

, with his cousin David Laibman *''Acoustic Guitar'' (1977),

Rounder Records Rounder Records is an independent record label founded in 1970 in Somerville, Massachusetts by Marian Leighton Levy, Ken Irwin, and Bill Nowlin. Focused on American roots music, Rounder's catalogue of more than 3000 titles includes records by Al ...

*''Steel Strings'' (1982), Rounder Records *''Late Night Conversations'', Live Music Recordings, a duet with Richard Scholtz

External links

Official site
* Allmusic.com Eric Schoenbergbr>''The New Ragtime Guitar'' Album Details
at

Smithsonian Folkways Smithsonian Folkways is the nonprofit record label of the Smithsonian Institution. It is a part of the Smithsonian's Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, located at Capital Gallery in downtown Washington, D.C. The label was fou ...

Eric Schoenberg Interview
NAMM Oral History Library (2017) Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American luthiers Companies based in Marin County, California Guitarists from California American male guitarists Transatlantic Records artists {{US-guitarist-stub