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Darío García

Darío García

MASTER GUITAR MAKER FEATURED AT GSI

Born2002
NationalitySpanish

Spanish luthier Darío García was born in 2002 and from a very young age felt a special attraction to music. At the age of 8 he entered the elementary music conservatory for classical guitar, and in later years would expand his interest the electric guitar and musical composition. His interest in guitar construction began when Darío was 17, although from a very young age he would spend time in his father's workshop (Antonio J. García) to play with pieces of wood and shavings that were on the floor. When Darío was about 9 years old his father built ​​Darío a guitar based on a Bouchet plan but scaled down in size for Darío’s smaller hands, which he used for his studies at the conservatory. Darío remembers that his father let him glue some of the pieces between the top and sides, and even let Darío put his signatura on the inside. This was Darío’s first “hands-on” encounter with the art of lutherie!

Darío’s father, who has been building guitars for 25 years, has been his only teacher to date. It started when Darío began assisting with smaller jobs that did not require much responsibility – sanding various guitar parts, gluing pins and joints, etc. Eventually, Darío was able to build his first guitars with lower quality woods that were in the warehouse, using parts that had already been prepared by his father. Little by little, Darío made a few more guitars and increasingly took more responsibility for the entire process - as time allowed with his studies.

After several years of working at his craft, Darío García was awarded second prize for his flamenco guitar and third prize for his classical guitar at the prestigious seventh Antonio Marin Montero Guitar Making Competition held in Granada, Spain in July/August, 2024.

Guitars by Darío García