Interview with Art Wiggs, Founder of Wings Guitar Products
Date of Interview
8-7-2012
Length of Interview
58:33
Digital Publication Date
3-4-2024
Publisher
National Association of Music Merchants
Language
English
Keywords
Guitar Parts, Guitars, Gretsch Company, Music Manufacturers, Paul A Bigsby, Vintage Guitars, Luthiers, Instrument Repair Technician
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Disciplines
Music | Music Business
Recommended Citation
Wiggs, Art, "Interview with Art Wiggs, Founder of Wings Guitar Products" (2012). NAMM Oral Histories. 16.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/nammoralhistories/16
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Notes
From the NAMM Oral History Collection:
Art Wiggs has always admired the Gretsch brand of guitars. He grew up in a musical family, as his parents played in church and on the radio together. As a kid he played the guitar with a classmate and the duo even had a running gig at Disneyland. He gave up playing to focus on his young family and to keep his day job. He retired from Union Carbide in 1988 and started Wings Guitar Products. He enjoyed buying and selling guitars. Art expanded his business, with his son's help, to travel to guitar shows around the country. He soon focused on Gretsch Guitars and has since worked for the famed guitar company to restore vintage instruments.