Serial made instruments may have correct sound, but sensitive musicians sense there’s something missing from them. Feeling the difference between handcrafted and factory made is something that only sensitive musicians can do. Factory guitars tend to have very powerful sound, and this is a commonly used trick when selling guitars to the less experienced. It is very easy to make a loud guitar, but it is truly difficult
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Ziel der Diplomarbeit ist die Erstellung eines geeigneten Restaurierungskonzepts für eine italienische Gitarre aus der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts, die im Moment aufgrund ihres fragilen Zustands unspielbar ist. Das Restaurierungsziel wird auf der Grundlage wissenschaftlicher Voruntersuchungen bezüglich des Ist- Zustands, der Konstruktion und des Materials der Gitarre diskutiert. Fragen zur Geschichte und Stilistik des
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My guitar is ten years old this year. It was made in 2003 in Reisbach, Bavaria, by Hermann Hauser III, the grandson of Hermann Hauser who made one of the most famous classical guitars in history: the 1930′s ‘Segovia Model’ played for thirty years by the maestro Segovia (a guitar which Segovia, with his usual penchant for all things grandiose, called ‘The Guitar of the Epoch’).
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Germany
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