Paul Neri has been repairing and restoring instruments for more than half of his sixty-two years. He is the author of The Acoustic Guitar Repair Detective, a repair diagnoses book published by Hal Leonard. He was formerly with the bluegrass trio Spacegrass, the duo The Acoustic Suburbanites, the Spanish guitar duo Las Guitarras, and later the bluegrass quintet Ragweed. He now occasionally performs solo Spanish guitar and is a member of The Kerry Boys, an Irish music group where he plays banjo.

▪ bio current as of 2018