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New addition to our Showroom: Maple Masterpiece! Check out this Performance Model guitar with Quilted Maple back and sides.  The striking Quilted maple and spruce doubletop combine to make this instrument both beautiful to see with a full, very rich sound that will only improve with time.

This custom Hill Performance is full size with Lattice bracing and a standard neck.


Engelmann Spruce/Nomex/Cedar This guitar can be yours for $5,995!
Price includes arched case For more info on our current inventory, please visit our online showroom. 
Win a Hill Performance Model!

Dynamite Guitars 2015-16 Concert Series is Here! 
Kenny's 1974 Fender Bass for Sale! 
Mark Goldenberg & Eric Skye


Eric Skye Website: http://ericskye.com/

Mark Goldenberg Website: http://www.markgoldenberg.com/ 
An International Summer for Hill Guitar! The Dates for Changsha are July 26th-30th. The Dates for Iserlohn are August 2nd-9th.

For More information on Changsha International Guitar Festival, go here.

And for more information on Iserlohn International Symposium, go here.

We hope to see you along the way! 
In Memory of Bob Hill

On Tuesday June 16 my dad Bob Hill passed away. It was in many ways a sweet and peaceful blessing, for him and for us. He was 92 years old, and up until 6 months ago he was still doing all of the same things he has loved since he was 11 years old; his music, his church, his cars and his family. During the past 15 years dad has been living in Fresno with his wife Shirley, and over the last few months it became more clear that he wanted to at least once get back to our family home in San Jose, where my sister still lives and so many of his accomplishments and memories reside. Last Saturday we were able to make that happen, and he settled into his old place with no pain, with many visits from family and friends, aware of what was around him, and he silently slipped away at 5:00 AM on Tuesday. No hospital, no pain, surrounded by family and friends. He was buried in Los Gatos along side my mother on Friday.

Shirley Hill, his wife of the last 15 years, is the one who is most deeply affected in this difficult transition for her. She has been his companion and his love, and for the last year more and more his caretaker. She was with him to the very end, and is now back at her home in Fresno with their dogs and her family and friends. She is really broken up and will need everyone's love to find joy in her life again. All of my thoughts and support and love go out to her in this difficult time.

My dad was an amazing multi-talented man — smart, funny, creative, loyal — with a good long life, and personally I feel I received my greatest strengths from him. I hope that his blood and his brains are the finest heritage I can pass on to my own children. These days have been so busy with arrangements that I haven't had the clarity of mind to really absorb this, it's surreal. I suppose this will be a process that will go on for the rest of my days.

There will be a memorial service at First Baptist Church in San Jose on July 11th, and also a memorial service at his church in Fresno as soon as we can arrange the date. I'll announce that when I know.

Thank you all for your support.

Kenny Hill
Fathers day, June 21, 2015.

Posted by New World Guitar Company at 10:51 AM 5 comments: Links to this post 
A Visit from Mark Goldenberg of Peghead Nation 
GFA 2015 Industry Leadership Award: Kenny Hill

Congratulations Kenny Hill! 

Go read his Bio here on the GFA Website. 
Kenny Hill in Classical Guitar Magazine 


Go read Kenny's Classical Guitar Article HERE 
New World Guitar Introduces the Ported Player! 
3 Days left to win a Hill Guitar Performance Series! Support the Omni Foundation Guitar Series and win a handmade Hill Guitar Company Performance Series Classical Guitar!

There are over $10,000 in prizes to be given away on April 25th, 2015 during the Marcin Dylla concert.  Winners need not be present to be eligible.

Donation: $20 per raffle ticket or 6 tickets for $100

The Grand prize is a Hill Performance Series Guitar with an Arched Case!

Visit the Omni Foundation Website HERE to look at the rest of the amazing prizes they are giving away.

This raffle is something you won't want to miss!  Take the chance and CALL or purchase online in order to get your Omni Raffle tickets now!

Call: (415) 242-4500 or (650) 726-1203
Order Online:  Omni Foundation Raffle

Posted by New World Guitar Company at 11:00 AM No comments: Links to this post 
New World Player in La Guitarra Silent Auction!

La Guitarra Festival is coming up!

La Guitarra California Festival is on September 25th-27th and Hill Guitar is very excited to be there!

ALSO, Hill Guitar Company is donating a New World Ported Player 650S (pictured here) for the Guitar Silent Auction!  During all three days of the festival, attendees have the opportunity to place written bids for two beautiful new guitars, one of them being our New World Player.

The winners of each guitar will also receive concert tickets to the 2017 Festival!

Go to the Silent Auction page HERE to look at both guitars and find more info.

If you are not familiar with New World Guitars, go read up on them at our website www.neworldguitar.com

Make sure to put in your bid at the Festival so you can have your chance at this beautiful guitar!  We hope to see you there!

La Guitarra Festival Website

Posted by New World Guitar Company at 11:24 AM No comments: Links to this post 
Kenny Hill at Musikmesse 2015

Kenny Hill at Musikmesse 2015! Musikmesse in Frankfurt, Germany is next week!
Musikmess is the world's most important meeting place for the musical sector.  Here you will find a complete range of products with everything required for making music, not to mention innumerable workshops, concerts, product demonstrations and discussion events.

Find Exhibitors HERE

Browse Events HERE

Buy Tickets HERE

There will be NO Hill Guitar Company Booth set up, however Kenny will be there so if you'd like to see him make sure you contact him:  email@example.com

Musikmesse Website

Posted by New World Guitar Company at 12:09 PM No comments: Links to this post 
Missing A Guitar? We were recently contacted by the Palo Alto, CA police department regarding a recovered Hill Guitar in a recent arrest. It is presumed stolen, and therefore, someone possibly in the greater Bay Area or California is missing their guitar.

If you have had your guitar stolen, contact us or the Palo Alto Police Department (650-329-2406) or email email@example.com with the details of the guitar.

It's not the guitar in the photo.

Hill Guitar Company

8011 Highway 9

Ben Lomond, CA  95005
800 262-8858
831 336-9428 
Congratulations Ashwin Krishna! 

Congratulations Ashwin! Ashwin Krishna Website 
Amadeus Guitar Duo is coming to Monterey, CA!

Now is your chance to see Amadeus Guitar Duo live in an unforgettable performance! Tell Me When There's A New Posting