Juha Ruokangas master guitar builder lockdown interview from Finland

By Pierre Journel
Published on 2020-05-6

As part of the lockdown Stay-at-Home period linked to the Coronavirus, this is one of the live interviews freely broadcasted to highlight musicians and other music pros impacted by this situation.

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Juha Ruokangas interview

Juha Ruokangas is the mastermind and luthier behind Ruokangas Guitars. He was the guest of this lockdown interview to talk about the impact of the pandemic, about the Holy Couch Guitar Show which has just ended the week-end before. He also shared some cool stories about slide guitar player Sonny Landreth and how the first Ruokangas bass guitar was developped with German musician Markus Setzer.

Many thanks to Juha Ruokangas who has been a paying subscriber to The Guitar Channel for many years. He explains in the interview why he does it and why he even finds it indispensable.