More info than you could ever want and I don't really know him.
I do know that Grit Laskin's birthday is the same as mine, 23rd August. We were camped beside him at "Songs of Sail" many years ago, (Great Festival sadly defunct) on the very day. I did not get a Laskin for my birthday though. Grit also plays Northumbrian small pipes (which I think he also made)plus other instruments too, performs solo and with 'Friends of Fiddlers Green" and is invloved with "Borealis Records" in Toronto. He started out making guitars as a student of "Larivee" and went on from there.
So why did he get all the talent? JohnB.