2000 Daryl Perry SP/CSAR

This 2000 Daryl Perry is a spruce and CSA rosewood classical guitar from Winnipeg, built inside after Hermann Hauser and decorated in the Spanish manner.

Hauser Inside, Spanish Outside

Structurally it is largely based on the 1930 Hauser (ex Sérgio Abreu) that was the model for the guitar José Luis Romanillos built in 1973 and Julian Bream famously recorded and concertized on – but with a larger plantilla, closer to a later Hauser. Aesthetically it borrows from Manuel Ramírez and Santos Hernández in the rosette and head, though the head has a Hauser-style V-joint. The signed label reads “Winnipeg 2000 Canada”.

Sound and Materials

It has a loose, warm, played-in sound. The dark, aged spruce top and an incredible set of figured CSA rosewood make it an elegant example of his best work. The Mela Guitar Quartet (Ravel’s “Le Jardin Féerique”) and Michael Váscones (Mark Delpriora’s Étude No. 5) play it in the videos above. It came with a custom Calton case.

Daryl Perry: Canada’s Master of the Torres Tradition

Canadian luthier Daryl Perry has been a full-time guitar maker in Winnipeg since 1982, and his son Jesse now works with him in the workshop. Early in his career he was introduced to the ideas of the Torres–Hauser school through José Luis Romanillos, and he has worked with them ever since, building concert guitars and historical reproductions with no carbon fiber, one sound hole and one soundboard.

Lutes, Research and Concert Artists

Grants for his work allowed him to do historical research in Europe and North America, and he has also built Renaissance and Baroque lutes. In 1994 two of his guitars were shown at the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Hull, Quebec. Fábio Zanon, Marcin Dylla, Johan Fostier, Jérôme Ducharme and Paolo Pegoraro have performed on Perry guitars, and Roland Dyens recorded “Sor and Giuliani” (2006) and “Naguele Tempo” (2008) on one.