My name is Bruce Roper and I have been repairing and building guitars for about 30 years. I owned my own retail guitar store for 10 years, and have for the last 18 years been doing all the string instrument repair for the Old Town School of Folk Music in Chicago, a venerable organization known nationally with over 6000 students a week in all the folk arts. In my one man shop I average between 400 and 500 repairs a year and try to build a few guitars each year. I started teaching guitar building in 2001.
I have also been playing the guitar and singing professionally with a small national touring folk trio called Sons Of The Never Wrong. Sons have been together for 17 years and have recorded 6 critically acclaimed CD.