Higher Power

摘要

The blues are not learned in a monastery, Keith Richards once noted. And yet for instruments by Cindy Guitars, the materials may have come from a church. Cindy Hulej, who works out of Rick Kelly's Carmine Street Guitars in New York City, produces bespoke axes out of pine, maple, and oak planks that are reclaimed from some of the city's holiest institutions-Trinity Church near Wall Street, a Serbian Orthodox cathedral in the Flatiron District-as well as less-hallowed ground such as the Chelsea Hotel and McGurk's Suicide Hall saloon.