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Jun 22, 2012 · Richard Keldsen is the president of Saga Music in San Francisco, California. His first musical inspiration was hearing Earl Scruggs playing Bluegrass banjo for the first time. After two years in the Peace Corps, Richard had the opportunity to open a music store called the Fifth String in San Francisco in 1973. He opened two more stores in Northern California before concentrating on a wholesale ...
May 17, 2008 · Saga founder Richard Keldsen has been doing business with Chinese companies for more than 25 years, and is among the most successful importers of Chinese-made musical instruments in the US. Keldsen is interviewed in a recent video segment for BNET.com where he discusses the challenges of outsourcing to China. The piece doesn’t have any ...
Jul 17, 2012 · Terry Herd caught up with Richard Keldsen of Saga Music at this past weekend’s Summer NAMM show in Nashville. Saga is the parent company for such popular bluegrass instrument brands as Blueridge Guitars, Gold Star banjos, Regal resonator guitars, and Kentucky mandolins. In this interview, Richard gives a quick glimpse at how he went from a ...
He introduced the first awesome Gold Star banjos through his new company: Saga musical instruments. Richard ended up concentrating his business interests in that direction and left the retail business to expand the manufacture of many different bluegrass instruments- and continues today at Saga Musical Instruments, in South San Francisco, Ca.
Richard Keldsen is the president of Saga Music in San Francisco, California. His first musical inspiration was hearing Earl Scruggs playing Bluegrass banjo for the first time. After two...
Nov 5, 2008 · Richard Keldsen, future president of Saga Musical Instruments, opened a retail store, The Fifth String, in San Francisco; J.D. Crowe & The New South recorded a self-titled album not released by Starday until 1977; Bela Fleck’s grandfather gave him his first banjo
