Kaunatas businessman manufactures guitars and forms a museum

Kaunatas parish farm “Tiptops” has been engaged in a very non-traditional industry for five years – the manufacture of electric guitars. Jānis Kuzminsky, owner of Z/s, plans not only to make a guitar but also to offer visitors the opportunity to observe the process of making them, as well as to look at the guitar collection that will be added to the future guitar museum all the time.

A new workshop is currently being built with a guitar museum. “Because one of the activities of the farm is tourism, we decided to expand the range of offers. In the summer, it will be possible to observe an electric guitar production process in the new workshop, which will be a new tourism product."

Now the exponents of the emerging museum are gradually collected, the most interesting of them are also restored. These are mostly guitars made several decades ago in both the former USSR and the Czechoslovakia and Germany.

 The Z/s “Tiptops” formed in 2003 and initially specialised in carpentry and furniture. The building furniture was built, both from the massive wood and from the laminate. The carpenter is now completely converted into an electric guitar plant. Currently, all the electric guitars of the Brenda “Attack” are made only by order, while each commissioning party chooses the necessary guitar electronics. As individual orders are relatively expensive, the entrepreneur plans to make an electric guitar series that would be available to a wider range of customers. Several models have already been developed which will be presented in the near future. The future plans are also the production of acoustic guitars. The guitars made are already in several decades. There are both recognizable musicians and “home players” among customers.

“It should be noted that almost all guitars are made from trees growing in Latgale. In terms of price, we cannot compete with the countries of the third world, but in terms of quality. It is harder to walk along the intact path, but much more interesting,“ says Jānis Kuzminsky, owner of the farm “Typtops”.

If the exhibition of a guitar museum is more complete and more interesting, the owner shall be invited to participate in the creation thereof – if someone has unnecessary old or broken guitars, they may be given to the museum (can be contacted by telephone 29252998 or by writing to the tiptops@inbox.lv).