Shaun Newman began playing the classical guitar in 1968 whilst living and teaching in Germany. He made his first classical guitar almost 25 years ago and has also made harps, dulcimers (hammered and fretted), mandolins, mediaeval fiddles, psalteries, and ukuleles. He has recently completed a baroque guitar with parchment rose. He retired almost a dozen years ago from his busy role as a company director working with an agency supporting unemployed young people.
▪ bio current as of 2019
2019
AL#136 p.36
Mike Gluyas Shaun Newman
▪ Although he had fallen in love with the classical guitar the first time he heard one as a teenager, Shaun Newman was already well along in a career as a language teacher when he first tried to make one. He was lucky enough to find a mentor in his corner of England, and he has been making and restoring an impressive variety of fine instruments for the last thirty years.
2010
AL#103 p.52
Shaun Newman
▪ Newman showcases his learning process and construction of a gothic, or renaissance harp.