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2014 Kenneth Brogger "Stradivarius" SP/CSAR

Year 2014
Top Spruce
Back & Sides CSA Rosewood
Scale Length 650 mm
Nut width 52 mm
Finish French Polish
Country Denmark
Luthier Kenneth Brögger

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Description

For the last several years, Kenneth has regularly attended an annual musical instrument fair in Cremona (the city most often associated with the famous violin maker Antonio Stradivari) in North Italy. At the fair in 2011 there was a group of original heavily ornate Stradivari violins that caught Kenneth's attention, and one violin in particular provided the inspiration behind the design of this current guitar. Click here for the full story behind this model, and to see photos of the original violin. Basically, Kenneth decided to make a guitar with the same inlay pattern of alternating circles and rhombus shapes with genuine mammoth tusk around the border of the soundboard just as Stradivari did. The same motif in the interior and exterior of the rosette. In both the rosette and tie-block mosaic is an "S" shape - of course a tip of the hat to Stradivari! The result is a striking design, with an aesthetic hitherto unseen in the guitar world. To round it out, Kenneth added an ebony inlay in the rosewood head (no relief), and how beautifully it complements the fingerboard and the machine buttons. We congratulate Kenneth on this effort - both the design and the execution to his same uncompromising, perfect standard. Materials chosen for this guitar are absolutely beautiful as always. Overall, an aesthetic masterpiece. The sound is quite complex - it is warm yet clear, with a beautiful, lyrical quality in the treble that is found in older instruments, for which Kenneth has great fondness. Basses are full and round. Overall, a very satisfying and beautiful tone across all registers.

Photos of this guitar being built.

The story behind this model.

Videos

2014 Kenneth Brogger "Stradivarius" SP/CSAR

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2014 Kenneth Brogger "Stradivarius" SP/CSAR

Workshop of guitarmaker Kenneth Brögger Fornalutx - Spain

2014 Kenneth Brogger "Stradivarius" SP/CSAR

Guitar maker Kenneth Brögger building a guitar in his workshop - guitarbygger.dk

2014 Kenneth Brogger "Stradivarius" SP/CSAR

Jonathan Roth - Silent Night (Kenneth Brogger ‘Stradivarius’)

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