ABOUT US

*** PLEASE NOTE as of Sept. 1 our email is birdsongbass@yahoo.com. Thanks! ***

JAKE GOEDE
Head Luthier

”The ROCK.” Hand produces your Birdsong basses start to finish. He’s a force of nature with a deep passion for the craft of crafting and knows what makes a Birdsong better than anybody else on the planet.

Jake began with Birdsong in 2008, fresh out of luthiery school, and his hands and help were key as we grew again through 2014. He made necks and bodies for hundreds of Birdsongs in addition to developing his own guitar designs as Goede Guitars. Jake is in charge of producing Birdsong basses. Focusing on the classic original 4 and 5-string 31” scale designs, his hand work and attention to detail carry on the Birdsong tradition of “a small workshop in the Texas woods making small basses that sound big.” He and his wife live on a little farm off a side road down a back road from a ranch road.

Jake regularly posts from the workshop on the Birdsong Facebook page. Like & follow us!

SCOTT BECKWITH
Founder, designer, builder

”The ROLL.” Birdsong founder, designer, chief builder for the first 20 years, and the guy who STILL answers the phone and personally handles your Birdsong bass order.

Captain of the ship, Scott began designing and building guitars and basses in a little music shop in Massachusetts in the 1990s. Beginning Birdsong in the corner of a friend’s workshop in the Texas “Hill Country” in 2000, he and wife Jamie Hornbuckle (with much gratitude to all who helped) built it into a company and brand, based on Scott’s ideas about smaller, more comfortable but BIG sounding basses. An eccentric traveler and writer, these days Scott is more of a free spirit and builds a few other things on the side in small shops along the way.

“I’m always here for you by phone, email, or message, and I still run Birdsong. I’m VERY grateful to have Jake as the hands of it now. Thank you so much and here’s to the NEXT 20 years!”

Contact: 512-395-5126
birdsongbass@yahoo.com
Scott’s Facebook page - friend & follow, PM him there.

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THE BIRDSONG STORY

It could fill a book after 20-plus years, but deep in the south-central Texas “Hill Country” woods, the first Birdsong branded instrument was a guitar built by Scott in the workshop of local legend John C. “Uncle Johnny” Kirtland. “We had hit it off playing music, and I needed a place to work out of to continue building my guitars. It started as that, but while I showed him how to turn his wood art into guitars, he showed me how to turn my guitars into wood art.” This was late 2000 into 2004. By July 4th when www.birdsongguitars.com was launched, along with the Birdsong Cortobass, Birdsong was a mom-and-pop team of Scott with wife Jamie Hornbuckle. With a trickle of helpers and behind-the-scenes believers, Birdsong grew from day one.

We were in with the Luthiers in a fantastic book, Hand Made Hand Played - that was one of our 2nd Anniversary Cortobasses from 2006. Birdsongs are played worldwide, have been on late night TV, played Madison Square Garden on a New Years Eve, rocked 80,000 at a festival in Mexico, and even more at Australia’s Big Day Out festival. They have played worship in lots of churches, raised hell in uncountable bars, made it to a few orchestra pits, and rocked lots and lots of clubs and venues, basements and porches, all the way over to Bethel, Alaska - where the delivered bass came out of the case IN TUNE. We build them tough. They’re not fragile. They were always tools first and then talismans, even the really wild stuff.

Through a handful of workshops, each with their own stories, it has always been (at most) a few sets of hands building big sounding little basses. Plus a number of guitars, too. And that way of doing it continues today in our 20th official company year! We’re still a real deal independent small business, we treat you like family, and our reputation is based on our little miracle basses knocking it out of the park.

Thank YOU for 20 years as a company, and year 24 as a brand… and counting. Stay tuned for more!

Birdsong Guitars
PO Box 1745
Wimberley, TX 78676
birdsongbass@yahoo.com
512-395-5126
Birdsong Guitars official Facebook page