Rick Allen has been immersed in the Music Industry for more than 20 years. Starting with a small music store in Mid Michigan, Rick was already an accomplished banjo, and dobro player, and enjoyed being around music, and musicians. His dream of being around music turned to reality, in the form of the most well known and respected music stores in the Mid Michigan area, with two brick and mortar locations to serve his customers, as well as a newly expanding e-commerce site MidMichiganMusic.com.

Rick has garnered the respect of many of the areas top musicians as well as many nationally known musicians.
With his experience in the industry, Rick realized that their was a need for low cost instruments in the market, but understood that with a lower cost often came huge sacrifices to the quality and sound, and therefore enjoyment, of the instrument. So he took his love for music to a new level by introducing the Allen Guitar. Rick went to Korea to a manufacturer that produces many well known and nationally respected name brand guitars and worked with them to create a new line of instruments that would not only be a lower cost, but also of higher quality and better sound than any other instrument for the price.

The Results? The Allen Guitar! An incredible sounding line of instruments, introduced in 2001, that will last a lifetime, at a price that is unbelievable.

It is the belief and foundation of Allen Guitars, that an imported instrument made with the right materials and design, can compete with any American instrument for a fraction of the cost. The design on select Allen acoustic guitars includes a unique top which incorporates our revolutionary "I" beam brace technology. The new brace actually reduces the mass of the brace while maintaining its strength and allowing the soundboard of the guitar (the top) to be more responsive to string vibration, increasing the volume of the guitar and improving tone. The finish of the new acoustic has also been drastically improved. The finish restricted the top from moving and inhibited the guitars ability to transfer vibration from the strings thus affecting the tone in a negative manor. The custom Allen finish is the same finish the factory uses on their violins with only 2 coats instead of the normal 5, this new finish greatly improves the guitar's volume and tone while still giving it a nice glossy look.