2011 Henner Hagenlocher SP/AR

This 2011 Henner Hagenlocher is a classical guitar with a spruce top and African rosewood back and sides, built in Granada, Spain, with his typical compact body shape.

Spruce and African Rosewood from Granada

This model features a slightly smaller body, with a spruce top and African rosewood back and sides. It is quite powerful - rich and textured in tone, with thick basses and lyrical trebles. A top choice for the concert or recording artist.

Henner Hagenlocher and the Granada School

German guitar maker Henner Hagenlocher is considered one of the great makers of the Granada school. He began building guitars in 1993, while living in London, where he studied Music Technology at London Guildhall University and was introduced to modern design concepts aimed largely at increasing volume. He found that these resulted in instruments that were too heavy and clumsy for his taste. His guitar teacher at the time owned a guitar by Antonio Marín Montero, and Henner liked it so much that he decided to learn more about the Granada school: in 1996 he visited Marín's workshop, was immediately captivated by the Granada style, and soon settled in Granada, opening his own workshop close by.

From Granada to Eutingen

Since then his guitars have blended the Marín influence with qualities of the old, traditional Spanish guitars, discovered through his extensive study of great masters such as Torres, Santos Hernández and Manuel Ramírez. His instruments are therefore lightweight, with an immediate, explosive attack - and although he builds in a largely traditional style, they have great power and projection. After some twenty years in Granada, Henner moved back to his native Germany in 2018, and today he works in Eutingen, about 50 km from Stuttgart. GSI is his exclusive dealer in the USA.