A remarkable dual interview of Todd Taggart and luthier legend Tom Ribbecke published in July 2016 by the Santa Barbara Acoustic Instrument Celebration series.  Todd had started LMI Tonewood Supply in the ‛70s and, in 2000, he started Allied Lutherie.  Tom Ribbecke was born in Brookyln and relocated to San Francisco in the early 70’s and opened his first lutherie shop in the Mission district.  He is one of the premier archtop builders in the world and in 2003, Tom invented the Halfling guitar. The patented design is a unique blend of the steel string acoustic guitar and the archtop guitar that offers versatility, enhanced bass response and feedback suppression not found in any other archtop guitar.  Tom continues to hand-craft truly exceptional museum quality archtops of exquisite design for which he is world famous in very limited numbers.