George Pittaway is a guitarist, teacher, and music industry veteran at the international trade level, as well as an ex
CBS recording artist "hisself". Touring credits include The Clash, The Cars, Hall & Oates, Ritchie Blackmore's
Rainbow, Pat Travers, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, UFO to name a few. George is experienced in playing in the native
styles, on the native instruments in dozens of countries. He's played Sitars with Indians, Bazoukis with Greeks. Along with Ouds withEgyptians, and Dombras with Uzbeks. Sometimes even guitar in Spain, perhaps. George likes design,
studies picking physics and mechanical motion thereof, and invented and patented the RunBarr in consultation with his old pal Bil.
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Bil VornDick is a guitar player and major
Nashville record producer and engineer who has scored #1 hits in 5 different genres. He's also prominent in music industrial
design, with the likes of Martin Guitars, Fishman Pickups, and D'addario. His production/engineering credits include Alison
Krauss, Bill Monroe, Ralph Stanley, Bob Dylan, Junior Brown, Rhonda Vincent, Patti Loveless, George Jones, Bela
Fleck, Jerry Douglas, Vince Gill, Marty Stuart, Ricky Skaggs, Kentucky Headhunters, Dwight Yoakum, and Diamond
Rio, to name a tiny fraction. Bil holds countless credits and technical achievement awards, and has mentored many of
Nashville's guitar greats, including Johnny Hiland, Brent Mason, Ricky Skaggs, and many many others. Bil knows pickin'
and watches pretty close while he's producing all them Grammy winners and such.
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