Studying holography pictures to determine the vibrational patterns in acoustic guitars. This led to the development of the radial guitar bridge on Levinson Acoustics.

Gary playing solo in Atlantis in 1973

Archtop Firebird built in 1973. The body was solid flames maple with rosewood binding.

Slot head carved top custom build in 1978.

Fachblatt Guitar - Dieter Roesberg commissioned a guitar for Fachblatt Magazine. I built an archtop Tele style instrument with a set neck and Tunomatic bridge and HSH pickups. This instrument was used by Fachblatt as their reference instrument in test reports.

Custom built “Jugendstil” bass commissioned by a well known Swiss bass player. It had 27 difference pieces of wood in the body and neck and a Brazilian Rosewood top and back.

Same bass as mentioned above.

Building a custom built acoustic commissioned by a local musician

Scalloping braces on a customer built Levinson Acoustic

Guitars by Levinson when I opened the shop in a bedroom of my apartment on Burgfelderstrasse 189 in Basle together with my wife Romy.

The showroom for Guitars by Levinson around 1978. We imported Washburn Guitars for the shop.

The workshop on Burgfelderstrasse 189. I was working on a classic guitar experimenting with a new bracing pattern

The Burgfelderstrasse workshop. 

Working on the rosette for a custom built acoustic in 1978.

Completing a custom built acoustic with Bear Claw spruce top and East Indian rosewood back and sides.

Carved top one piece ”Paul”. This belongs to the slot head picture described above.

The workshop in 1978 with 1st apprentice Zeno Steuri

The workshop in 1978

Japan 1983 developing the first prototype instruments for what would later becomes Blade Guitars.

Making prototype pickups in 1985

Guitars by Levinson today, Gary E.Levinson & Philip Bangerter.