2002 Daryl Perry SP/CSAR

This 2002 Daryl Perry is a spruce and CSA rosewood classical guitar with a “wave” rosette in the style of Manuel Ramírez and Santos Hernández.

The Early Spanish School

Its design shows his admiration for the early Spanish school: the rosette has the “wave” mosaic seen on Manuel Ramírez guitars and, above all, on those of his worker Santos Hernández, who favored variations of it in his later work, and the three-lobed head follows proportions close to Torres. The signed label reads “Winnipeg 2002 Canada”.

Sound and Condition

The sound is lush, warm and loose, with impressive volume and great balance. There was one nearly invisible, well-repaired crack in the back; otherwise the guitar was in great shape, with normal playing wear in the finish.

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.