2006 Michel Brück No. 116 SP/CSAR

This 2006 Michel Brück No. 116 is a spruce and CSA rosewood classical guitar, a traditional solid top built in Germany.

No. 116, 2006

Numbered 116 on its signed label, it shows the exact workmanship and perfect attention to detail of all his guitars. Ricardo Giuffrida plays Scarlatti’s Sonata K. 1 on it in the video above.

Sound

Soulful and Spanish in flavor, it also has great volume, evenness of tone across the registers and excellent intonation; the sound is smooth, clear and lyrical.

Michel Brück: From Romanillos to the Double Top

German luthier Michel Brück works in Königsberg, a village in Biebertal near Giessen. In 1989 he built a guitar under the guidance of José Luis Romanillos, and his traditional guitars of the following years were made very much in the spirit of the old Spanish masters like Torres, Santos Hernández and Vicente Arias – lovely, traditionally made guitars with a soulful, Spanish flair.

A Long Waiting List

From around 2010 Brück became increasingly sought-after for his double-top instruments, and he has accrued a lengthy waiting list of many years, so his guitars are difficult to get and rarely enter the used market. He numbers every guitar by hand on the label, beside the year and his signature.