Classical and Flamenco Guitars - Guitar Salon International

The Newspaper Guitar Challenge

Check out the Leonoardo Guitar Research Project, which is testing our assumptions about the need for tropical tonewoods for the back and sides of guitars. In the audio sample, they have edited together recordings of nearly identical guitars made with various tonewoods and even one made of newspaper.

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The Torres Playlist

As we celebrate the bicentennial of the birth of Antonio de Torres, who both established the modern guitar as we know it and set a standard of sound quality that contemporary luthiers are still striving to match, it’s fun to look back at all of the videos we have shot on these historic guitars.

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Torres Film Kickstarter

A while back we were contacted by two direct descendants of Antonio de Torres. They were making a film about Torres and asked if they could use some of our videos and photos of the many great Torres guitars we’ve had come through GSI over the years. We were of course more than happy to help, and now they need your help to finish the film.

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Yuri Liberzon plays 1912 Manuel Ramirez

Here’s Yuri Liberzon playing Manuel Barruecos’ transcription of Astor Piazzolla’s Tango Etude No. 6 on an absolutely stunning 1912 Manuel Ramirez, built the same year as Segovia’s iconic Manuel Ramirez that now lives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.

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Andrea Gonzalez Caballero plays 2014 Pepe Romero Jr.

Here’s Andrea Gonzalez Caballero playing Manuel de Falla’s Danza del Molinero on a great 2014 Pepe Romero Jr. redwood and Indian rosewood classical. Pepe has made very few redwood guitars, and this one has a beautiful clarity to it.

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George Sakellariou – Torres CD

We are very pleased to announce that just in time for the 200^th anniversary of Torres' birth in 1817, we will be publishing a CD of George Sakellariou playing two very special Torres guitars – an 1862 First-epoch and an 1888 Second-epoch.

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