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...

12 string Mavis with a soundboard back for Chris Turpin @surfburst. The man needed a new tool of destruction with way more strings on it so here we go! The top is one from my secret stash. I love it because it looks like...

Makin’ Mules # 2. With these behind the scenes videos I want to put people first- the customers, employees, and musicians who are connected through the process of making these instruments. Song is “To Your Love” by...

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...

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...

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...

My good friend Jeffrey Foucault is playing his album "Horse Latitudes" live tonight on his website. It's my favorite album of all albums.  Times are tough for musicians, probably the toughest,  and these live shows online are...

What’s left of Dustin’s three Mules. Dustin and his wife lost their house in the wildfires in California. Dustin is an OG Mule team member, I think he got his first in 2014 and was the first guitar we shipped to a deployed...

The Jae Foundation is a suicide prevention organization and they are auctioning off a Modest Mavis. You can bid on it here:  https://jaefound2023.ggo.bid/bidding/package/14135174 Read more about their mission and how they...

View link to hear it acoustically: https://www.muleresophonic.com/videos/2045283
“Can I play it acoustic?” That was the number one question three years ago when after a week of manic building and some encouragement by...

I'm in Iowa parked in the back of a Planet Fitness parking lot. Its 11:30 pm and there's a surprising amount of people working out. It's a parking lot of misfit toys - an odd assortment of vehicles with people sleeping in...

I’ve talked about how your truss rod is not an action adjuster. It’s really, really not. 

Here’s how the action is set and adjusted on resonators. It’s best done by a shop because of the special files involved but...