Guitten Story

Established in 2014

I began attending Augsburg College in 1999, and received my Bachelor of Science Degree in Music Therapy. After moving back to Duluth, MN in 2004, I attended grad school at Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in Indiana. It was a distance program, so I was able to work full-time and tend to my family. As a music therapist, I play the guitar a lot while working with patients. While working in hospice care and with children in private practice, I found myself in close proximity to them, and feeling insecure about the safety of the head of the guitar near my patients. The head of the guitar has sharp string ends that if touched or bumped, could hurt someone. I needed something that would cover the headstock and still give me the ability to tune the guitar and keep on while in my gig bag. I came up with this guitar head cover which later became named the Guitten.

The Guitten was also needed to conceal the tuning pegs while working with little children. They are fascinated by the tuning pegs and want to reach out and turn them. During this time, I decided to create Character Guittens. I found they complimented themed activities I was leading in music therapy sessions. It was great! The product was multi-faceted. What if other people wanted to use them as well?

I received a Patent Pending in 2014 for the Guitten design. I have recently submitted a revision of the design for patent pending. I am amazed at how much the music therapy community loves the Guitten.  Even though the COVID Pandemic had shutdown my business for a period of time, I have regained motivation and momentum to keep their use and their sales going. 

Thank you to all of you who have supported my little shop by purchasing a Guitten. I appreciate it more than you know!!