Paige Davidson, Co-Owner of Well Strung Guitars: Instruments Have a Soul

Paige Davidson of Well Strung Guitars

We first met at the Songbirds Museum in Chattanooga during the Six String Queens exhibit, which was very impressive. Tell us a little about Well Strung Guitars: how it started, how long in business, mission, etc.?

Can you believe it was nearly three years ago that we first met? Crazy to think how much has changed since then! Songbirds was my first opportunity to work closely with vintage guitars and basses; taking on their social media and marketing really provided me with the opportunity to learn so much more than I thought possible. Flash forward, Well Strung Guitars is the brainchild of myself and my business partner and father, David Davidson. In 2018, there was a lot of speculation as to where the vintage guitar market and the guitar market as a whole were going. Around that same time, Fender had released a statistic that fifty percent of guitars being purchased by beginner and aspirational players were women. I saw this as the time to strike and open a brand new, womanowned brick and mortar vintage guitar shop. The doors to our Farmingdale, New York, store opened in July of 2019. I handle anything from sales to accounting to dusting the showroom—a small business like this has fairly blurred lines when it comes to roles. Our mission is to be the anti-big box store; to provide a warm and welcoming environment to not only avid players and collectors but to men and women everywhere who wish to educate themselves on the history of these iconic instruments and possibly even dive into collecting.