David Hosler has more than 40 years of experience designing, building and repairing stringed instruments.  His Luthery experience is combined with playing lead guitar for many touring bands throughout the 80's and early 90's.

David first began working and building guitars in Florida.  In the early 80's he moved to Greenville, South Carolina where he opened the Guitar Workshop in Travelers Rest, SC building and servicing guitars.  His reputation and skills brought David to the attention of Taylor Guitars which soon offered him a position with the iconic company.  In the fall of 1996 he and his family moved to join Taylor Guitars in Southern California. During his time at Taylor Guitars, his talents and experience moved him up in the company, soon earning the title Vice President of Customer Service, Repair and Quality Control.  David's creative insight and experience also led him to design and create Taylor Guitars’

first proprietary pickup system, "The Taylor Expression System."  Legendary audio designer, Rupert Neve, worked together on the project and the original Expression System won numerous awards, including the coveted TEC award from the Mix Foundation.  In thefollowing years David led the development of the Taylor T5, T3 and Solidbody line of Taylor Guitars.

In 2014 David brought another industry changing pickup design to Taylor Guitar by creating the highly acclaimed Expression System 2.

Retiring from Taylor in June of 2015 David moved back to his home state of Florida to open

SEVEN C MUSIC in St. Petersburg with his son Joel.

Joel Hosler, like his father, has over 20 years of experience building and repairing stringed instruments. He grew up watching and working along side his father at The Guitar Workshop in the Carolinas. Joel also worked for Taylor Guitars as head trainer and repairman for Final Assembly and also worked in the repair/custom shop for many years.

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Joel toured throughout the late 90's and early 2000's releasing multiple albums with his band Noise Ratchet. Joel fronted the band where he worked and recorded with Grammy winning producers Rick Ruben and Nick Raskulinecz. After the band he landed back to Southern California where he returned to Taylor Guitars. After leaving Taylor in 2007 he worked on guitars at his home shop in So Cal and lead worship at a church in SoCal.

 

Now moving back to his home state of Florida, Joel is returning to his roots running 

SEVEN C MUSIC in St. Petersburg with his father.