Guitarist/singer/songwriter extraordinaire Richard Thompson started his career as a teenage founding member of England’s Fairport Convention. His guitar mastery, both on electric and acoustic, earned him a top 20 spot on Rolling Stone’s recent “Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list. See more at www.richardthompson-music.com.

A portion of profits from the sale of Richard Thompson's strings go to The Organization for Tropical Studies: The Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) is a nonprofit consortium of nearly sixty universities, colleges, and research institutions from around the world. In the early 1960's, scientists from U.S. universities forged working relationships with colleagues at the Universidad de Costa Rica in the interest of strengthening education and research in tropical biology. Intense interest, both in the U.S. and in Costa Rica, led to the founding of OTS in 1963. See more at www.ots.ac.cr.