{"id":26,"date":"2019-10-10T16:47:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-10T21:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2023-08-01T06:36:05","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T11:36:05","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t<h4>\u00a0Acoustic Electric Strings is the creative inspiration of Gary E. Bartig&#8230;<\/h4>\n<p>&#8230;designer of the Eminence Portable Upright Bass, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/aes-dahlia-5-string-violin\/\">Dahlia\u00ae 5-String Acoustic Violin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A respected luthier and musician with a background in electronics and sound engineering, Gary has long been searching for a superior-sounding violin pickup &#8211; one that&#8217;s lightweight, unobtrusive, with little or no bow clunk. With the innovation of his internal, bass bar pickup installed in great sounding, affordable instruments, AcousticElectricStrings.com is off and running!<\/p>\n<p>As a subsidiary of G. Edward Lutherie (established in 1996), Acoustic Electric Strings offers the same great service our customers have come to expect and enjoy. We&#8217;re a &#8220;mom and pop&#8221; operation, so when you contact us, you&#8217;ll talk to either Gary or Karen.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Gary-with-5-string.jpg\" alt=\"Gary with 5-string\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"640\" width=\"640\" title=\"Gary with 5-string\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\t<h4>We&#8217;re now on Skype!<\/h4>\n<p>Which means Gary can show you a selection of instruments &#8211; and play scales and a tune on each &#8211; to give you first-hand experience with our instruments before you make your purchase. It&#8217;s almost as good as playing them yourself!<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s how it works: set up a Skype account, and email your Skype name and some possible times to connect. We&#8217;ll confirm a time, send you an invite to join our Skype network (our Skype Name is <em>AcousticElectric)<\/em>, and get the call going. That&#8217;s it!<\/p>\n<p>So email us at info@gelbass.com for a Skype appointment with Gary today.<\/p>\n<p>Skype Name: <em>AcousticElectric<\/em><\/p>\n<h4>Or Come for a Visit<\/h4>\n<p>Our shop is located in New Brighton. Gary is available by appointment only, so please call <a href=\"tel:800-741-3045\">888-688-0069<\/a> or <a href=\"tel:612-781-5799\">612-781-5799<\/a>, or email us at info@gelbass.com, to schedule a visit.<\/p>\n<h4>Shipping<\/h4>\n<p>We ship worldwide. For US orders, we offer a one-week free trial period and free shipping (with credit card deposit), and we&#8217;re happy to send more than one instrument to expedite your decision.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For International Shipments:<\/strong> Please note that you will be required to pay your country&#8217;s import duties &amp; taxes (VAT) in addition to the shipping estimate we quote based on your address. Depending on the country, this may add as much as an additional 25% to your final cost. For this reason, and due to customs paperwork, a trial period is not possible.<\/p>\n<h4>Our Audio Clips<\/h4>\n<p>Our audio clips, recorded by Gary in our Warehouse Studio, showcase the acoustic and amplified tone of each instrument.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/audio-clips\/\">Click here for audio clip technical details<\/a>.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Karen_Gary_IBMA2012_200.jpg\" alt=\"Karen_Gary_IBMA2012_200\" itemprop=\"image\" height=\"426\" width=\"200\" title=\"Karen_Gary_IBMA2012_200\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\"  \/>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Acoustic Electric Strings is the creative inspiration of Gary E. Bartig&#8230; &#8230;designer of the Eminence Portable Upright Bass, and the Dahlia\u00ae 5-String Acoustic Violin. A respected luthier and musician with a background in electronics and sound engineering, Gary has long been searching for a superior-sounding violin pickup &#8211; one that&#8217;s lightweight, unobtrusive, with little or&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":876,"href":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/acousticelectricstrings.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}