“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...

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...

Hey All! FINANCING AVAILABLE -  We now work with a financing company to provide monthly installments. Get on the list. Apply with them. They deposit the amount in your bank account. You pay us the full remainder and then pay...

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...

We made a 12 string Mavis for Chris Turpin of Ida Mae and it is awesome. I also accidentally nicknamed this guitar while making this video… luckily it’s a tough name to beat. We’re going to keep making these babies, I just...

"The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or a saw a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like...

We ship internationally. There was a couple year stretch where we didn’t. Things were weird in the world in many ways and internationally shipped guitars ended up lost for months or apparently at the bottom of a swamp in...

Check out the first of two videos documenting the build of a tritone for Monica Valli: https://youtu.be/ccaPjjC6na0 Matt...

Some kind words in Guitar World Magazine, an interview with the incomparable Chris Turpin. 

Guitar World Article Video of me deliver The River to Chris. 

Delivering The River -Matt...

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We know it’s best to say thank you in person. We want to say thank you to you Mule-fiends and all the musicians who use our instruments for a living. ⁣
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Mule has always been about people -...