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a profile…
Klein acoustics and electrics are played by Steve Miller, Joni Mitchell, Andy Summers, Joe Walsh, Bill Frisell, Lou Reed, and David Torn. Michael Hedges played a klein electric harp guitar, and Stanley Clark, Billy Sheehan and Sting along with others play Klein designed basses.

 

Steve's grandfather was an ornamental caster in Austria. He took his family out of Europe to escape the war, settling first in St. Louis and finally in Northern California. Steve has inherited his grandfather's talent of transforming natural elements into practical and beautiful works of art.

 
 

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 19 string electric harp guitar built for Bob Gore

 

In 1991, Steve Klein and Bob Taylor began designing the AB series acoustic bass, which is now in production in southern California

 
 

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     Klein Designed Acoustic Bass
 

The ergonomic, headless electric guitars he designed were shaped by input from Carl Margolis, Ronnie Montrose, and Ned Steinberger.

  
 
 

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Steve Miller's electric sitar guitar 

  
 
                                 
 

Even Lou Reed found it helpful to his back to use the Klein guitar !

  
 
 

 
 

 

This website is dedicated to the loving memory of
 
 

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 Fred Klein & Michael Hedges
 
 
 

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Steve's shop is in Vineburg, a hamlet with no sidewalks outside of the town of Sonoma, California.

  
 
   

 

I would like to thank all of the loves of my life, both past and present, who have helped me in so many ways to continue to grow in my life and my art. 

 
 

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