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Guitars
lacewood
cutaway
For finger-style playing, this lacewood and cedar guitar is both sonorous and transparent. 12-fret design. Mother-of-pearl purfling and contemporary rosette.
"Absolutely exquisite!" - Kim Person
"Gorgeous guitar!" - Todd Walker
"Maybe the best live acoustic guitar sound I’ve ever heard…
that instrument is amazing!" - Michael Arthur
die erinnerung
German for Memory, Die Erinnerung is a modern take on the Austrian Kontragitarre of the early twentieth century. It's basically a classical guItar, clear and transparent, yet the slightly deeper body and four sub bass strings add warmth to its sound. The subs can be tuned either with a re-entrant G-DD-CC-AA or a diatonic DD-CC-BB-AA.
"Way cool" - Kathy Wingert
The dancer
Because this harp guitar reminds me of the Matisse cut-outs, I call it "The Dancer." It's a fresh interplay of curving lines, always the same, but in a different way. Semper idem sed non eodem modo. Six sub-bass strings: G, DD, CC, BB, AA, GG
"Really, really nice, Michael!" - Fred Carlson
uke-"lily"
Made for a very fine, young musician with a baby girl, named "Lily."
The nightingale
Classical guitar after Antonio Torres, with a slightly narrower waist and smaller upper bout. I particularly like its lute-like sound. East Indian Rosewood and Alpine spruce. 650mm scale.
