Rumley Arts Guitars.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Colorado Cool Stuff - Brief Article

Because Denver-born brothers Bill and John Rumley "grew up in the arts," said Bill, "we are of the arts." No kidding. Their father was a professor of performing arts at DU. John is a Denver musician of serious renown and also a craftsman with an indelible reputation, repairing stringed instruments at the Denver Folklore Center for a decade and making his own for even longer. After "taking on the East Coast art world," visual artist Bill returned to Denver in the late 1990s and teaches string-instrument building at CU-Boulder. In 2003, Bill and John joined forces to launch Rumley Arts, the name under which the brothers...