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WEST VILLAGE, Manhattan — <\/span>When you walk inside Carmine Street Guitars, you’re welcomed by the smell of fresh wood, the sound of saws, the strum of guitars and a smile from a man with endless stories to tell.<\/p>\n “I wake up to Vinny Mustache feeding the pigeons in the morning right outside the shop,” said Rick Kelly, owner of Carmine Street Guitars.<\/p>\n That simple introduction barely scratches the surface.<\/p>\n “This is McSorley’s, the oldest bar in New York. This one is a water tower. This is all made from a 1912 Steinway piano,” Kelly said, pointing to some of his creations.<\/p>\n Kelly is an artist, craftsman, scavenger, mentor and, in many ways, a historian.<\/p>\n “I’m not into history, really, other than the history of New York City. I love that,” Kelly said.<\/p>\n This isn’t the kind of history found in textbooks. It’s preserved in the foundation of the building itself.<\/p>\n “This is an 1827 building, one of the oldest three on the block,” Kelly said. “This was a speakeasy back there during Prohibition.”<\/p>\n And it’s etched into every guitar he makes.<\/p>\n “Every building in the city is framed in this old growth,” Kelly said. “I call it the bones of old New York.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source abc7.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" WEST VILLAGE, Manhattan — When you walk inside Carmine Street Guitars, you’re welcomed by the smell of fresh wood, the sound of saws, the strum of guitars and a smile from a man with endless stories to tell. “I wake up to Vinny Mustache feeding the pigeons in the morning right outside the shop,” said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2470977,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[348074,486239,486240],"class_list":["post-2470976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-guitars","tag-music-shop","tag-repair-shop"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Carmine-Street-Guitars-Making-music-from-the-bones-of-old.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2470976"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2470978,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2470976\/revisions\/2470978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2470977"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2470976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2470976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2470976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}