2013 Daryl Perry No. 188 SP/IN

This 2013 Daryl Perry No. 188 is a spruce and Indian rosewood classical guitar in the understated style of Antonio de Torres’ second epoch.

A Second-Epoch Look

Simple banded purfling, a rosette of diamond-shaped mosaics framed by red and green ovals and a rounded heel cap give it the elegance of late Torres; Perry’s craftsmanship is clean and perfectly executed. The label is numbered 188 and dated 2013 – a year before our No. 195.

Sound

It has the old, played-in “antique” voice Perry’s guitars are known for, lush and loose, with impressive volume and great balance – a very desirable example of this great maker’s work.

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.