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Before I write a lot about my guitars, the most important thing first: How do they sound?
A friend of mine, a professional guitarrist, recorded the following audio samples. The recordings are not mastered at all so that you can hear the true sound without any changes - exept the ones cause by recording itself:
Heitor Villa Lobos - Choros Nr. 1 played on a guitar with cedar top:
Isaac Albeniz - Granada played on a guitar with spruce top:
Here are some pictures with the most important details:
Machines from Nicolo Alessi, that are made very well and run very smoothly. Nicolo makes them by hand:
The design of my guitars is very simple on purpose, because I do not like "rich" guitars. The sound is the most important aspect and should speak for itself. So I use only very simple bindings, no inlays, no mother of pearl or any other stuff like this. The sound hole is surrounded by a few rings whereof the center ring is always from a piece of wood of the sides or body of this single guitar.
My guitars are constructed in such a way that they can be played both right and left hand. Besides many constructive elements that can not be seen from outside of the guitar, the bridge is the only visible part of that concept. The special guiding of the strings and a 12 hole bridge design with vertically positioned holes have the advantage, that the strings can be fixed in such a way, that the ends do not harm your hand and the knot is fastening very good and leads to a very fast and stable tuning.
Here is a short slideshow of some of my guitars:
And of yourse, all of my guitars have the patented fretboard system (see Patented fretboard) that leads to an outstanding intonation.
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