page_title: Guitar Craft
section_title: Courses
hierarchical_section_title: Guitar Craft / Courses
caption_attribution_description: English: Front entrance to the Claymont mansion
context_page_description: Guitar Craft was a series of guitar and personal-development classes, founded and often presented by Robert Fripp, who is best known for his work with the rock band King Crimson. Guitar Craft courses introduced students to new standard tuning and ergonomic playing with the plectrum, often using steel-stringed, acoustic, shallow-body guitars from the Ovation Guitar Company.
  By 2011, three thousand students had completed the courses. Students who continue to practise Guitar Craft playing have been called "crafties". Notable crafties include Trey Gunn and the California Guitar Trio and Markus Reuter. Crafties have recorded several albums under the name of "Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists", for example.
  After 25 years, the Guitar Craft movement transformed its activities into Guitar Circles, which offer introductory courses and performances in Europe and the Americas. Guitar Circles meet in many cities; in particular, The Seattle Guitar Circle meets for practices and performances and also sponsors a school.
context_section_description: Fripp's Guitar Craft courses were first offered by the American Society for Continuous Education, near the Claymont Court site in Charles Town, West Virginia. Guitar Craft stated that it offers ways to develop relationships with the guitar, music, and oneself.
caption: The first Guitar Craft course began on 25 March 1985 at the Claymont Court site in Charles Town, West Virginia.[1][2]
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