It’s not just fun and games here at Mule HQ.  I mean… it’s a lot of that.  But it’s a complex operation with lots of logistics and not much margin for error. It’s really hard. The rollercoaster meme of business...

Looking to buy a used Mule? Here are some things to consider. https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2043958...

10 years of Mule. When I was 27 I saw Kelly Joe Phelps play a resonator and he changed my life for the second time. He showed me what this instrument was capable of expressing. I didn’t recognize it then but he showed me what...

My good friend and spirit animal Dave Hicks took his tricone to see the mighty Dinnie stones in Scotland. In Scotland there are historical tests of strength called lifting stones. Most are massive. The Dinnies combined are...

I'm standing on the front of a 400 LB Dallas Guitar Show pallet tipping precariously down a ramp made from a big piece of steel "strapped" to the loading dock so hopefully it doesn't slide and dump the pallet. I'm about to...

I was talking with a customer the other day about what tuning and strings he wanted his steel tricone sent out with.   He was planning and keeping it in Eb open D and didn't know what gauge he should use.  Normal stuff.  The...

Buy your tickets to win this ridiculously awesome guitar. Ends December 23. Drawing will be on Christmas Eve.  https://www.muleresophonic.com/products/34235-muletide-christmas-raffle-guitar Hear it...

It’s always an adventure getting to the NAMM show but we’re here, the crate is here, and we are ready to set up. 

Come say hi. 

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Check out the feature on all of Chris Turpin’s Mules in the new issue of Guitarist magazine. 

Matt...

“Is that… that’s Charlie Parr! Will you sign my guitar?” Charlie and I are eating food truck egg rolls on a bench out front of Ore Dock Brewing at the top of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. The U. P. Is the lower 48’s alaska....

New sounds inspire new songs. The MAVIS. I made the first after my brain ran downhill one weekend coming up with a guitar for a friend. I set out to make it the following week. It’s a combination of elements of guitars I...

Whats this? What. Is. THIS??? This, my spooky friends, is a resonator painted in the “blackest black in the known universe” Black 4.0 by Culture Hustle. 

May your bags be full of full size and none of that...

For all the details and video go here: https://www.muleresophonic.com/products/33375-parr-mule-raffle -Matt...

The short of it: we are making mono-cones again in addition to the tricones. New sounds mean new songs and unwritten songs are why we do this work. You can get on the list...

This is my new buddy, Ivan. Ivan, my friend Jack @baumwerkj and myself are cooking up something special for the NAMM show. Historically I’ll have some ridiculous idea, usually while on long solo car drives, and once I have...

I woke up to a text message with a picture of a bandaged index finger. I don’t remember what the words in the text were exactly but what I said out loud was “oh shit”. Dave had sent me a picture of the tattoo he had just...

Resonator guitars are just guitars. We are in a shift where people are seeing them as the music tools they are - different sounds create different musical choices. No high set ups suitable only for the 12 feet wiggle. You...

These Mules are music tools. What do they build? Inspiration. What's inspiration? Sure, sometimes a song drops from heaven onto the back of a napkin at a diner, or you wake up with a tune in your head you record on your...

Promenade in green... This show was 1,000 years old. Outside at the muddy base of a un-aging mountain range. Strings of lights cutting the campsite from the natural order around it. The crowd traveling down the mountains to...

I’m standing in the middle of a riot next to Mat #28. There’s over 70 men fighting at the same time. Fighters. They aren’t foamy ex frat boys at a local bar. Their face bones have changed from the pressure of being pushed...