2010 Tobias Braun SP/MP

Year	2010
Top	Spruce
Back & Sides	Maple
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	52 mm
Finish	French Polish
Country	Austria
Luthier	Tobias Braun

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Description

Cover of Orfeo Magazine No. 17, The Viennese Guitar, featuring Tobias Braun

A 2010 classical guitar by Tobias Braun, with a German spruce top and flamed maple back and sides, made in Gaaden, in the Vienna Woods.

Spectacular Materials

The German spruce top is covered in bearclaw, and the flamed maple back and sides are beautifully figured. Braun's custom Rubner tuners carry his engraved initials.

Projection and Clarity

Like his other guitars, it has a small tornavoz of about 16 mm for projection and clarity. The tone is very clean, open and extremely loud – robust and round, yet clear – a world-class guitar in every regard.

Read more: Orfeo Magazine No. 17 – The Viennese Guitar (with a feature on Tobias Braun)

Background

Tobias Braun: A Romanillos-Trained Maker in the Vienna Woods

Tobias Braun was born in Holzminden, Germany, in 1960 and grew up in Perchtoldsdorf, just outside Vienna. He built his first guitar on his own in 1983, then took four courses with José Luis Romanillos between 1984 and 1992, earned his Master Craftsman's Certificate in Vienna in 1989 and helped translate Romanillos' book on Antonio de Torres into German. Since 1998 he has worked in Gaaden, in the Vienna Woods.

Santos, Ramírez and Rare Woods

His guitars grow out of the old Spanish masters – above all the 1924 Santos Hernández of Luise Walker, which he has studied and lectured on, and a 1912 Manuel Ramírez. Many have a small tornavoz for projection and clarity, and he is one of the few makers since García and Simplicio to work with satinwood. He was featured in Orfeo Magazine No. 17, "The Viennese Guitar".