2015 Annette Stephany SP/IN

Year	2015
Top	Spruce
Back & Sides	Indian Rosewood
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	52 mm
Finish	French Polish
Country	Germany
Luthier	Annette Stephany

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The front of a 2015 Annette Stephany classical guitar made with spruce and Indian rosewood

The back and sides of a 2015 Annette Stephany classical guitar made with spruce and Indian rosewood

The side of a 2015 Annette Stephany classical guitar made with spruce and Indian rosewood

The soundboard and side of a 2015 Annette Stephany classical guitar made with spruce and Indian rosewood

The back of a 2015 Annette Stephany classical guitar made with spruce and Indian rosewood

The rosette of a 2015 Annette Stephany classical guitar made with spruce and Indian rosewood

The headstock and machine heads of a 2015 Annette Stephany classical guitar made with spruce and Indian rosewood

The label of a 2015 Annette Stephany classical guitar made with spruce and Indian rosewood

Martha Masters plays Ida Presti's "Etude No. 2" on a 2015 Annette Stephany guitar

Francisco Tárrega's "Estudio Brillante de Alard" by Keith Rodriguez on a 2015 Annette Stephany

Mario Casteluovo-Tedesco's "III. Gavotta, Appunti" by Puerta-Vázquez Duo on Tezanos & Stephany

Big Bill Broonzy's "Hey Hey" performed (and arranged) by Keith Rodriguez on a 2015 Annette Stephany

Description

A 2015 classical guitar by Annette Stephany, with a spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides – a slightly modified version of Lorenzo Frignani's 1906 Enrique García.

In the videos above, Martha Masters plays Ida Presti's Étude No. 2, Keith Rodriguez plays Tárrega's "Estudio Brillante de Alard" and his own arrangement of Big Bill Broonzy's "Hey Hey", and the Puerta-Vázquez Duo play the Gavotta from Castelnuovo-Tedesco's "Appunti" on this guitar and a 2009 Tezanos "Maestro".

García Bracing and Design

The 9+2 symmetrical bracing is copied from the original, as are details such as the head shape and rosette.

Light, Lyrical and Clear

The light build gives a beautiful, lyrical sound, with great clarity between voices and surprising volume. Pre-owned, in excellent condition with barely any signs of use.

Background

Annette Stephany: From Mittenwald to Schweinfurt

Annette Stephany (born 1982) is a German classical guitar maker. She was fascinated by lutherie from the age of 14, when she met a violin maker, and at 21 she enrolled in the violin-making school in Mittenwald, where she also worked for the harp maker Eric Kleinmann. She then apprenticed with Lorenzo Frignani in Modena, Italy, until 2013, with a year of restoration work in Bernhard Kresse's workshop in Cologne, where she later shared a shop with Kresse. Today she has her own workshop in Schweinfurt.

Inspired by Frignani's 1910 Ramírez and 1906 García

Her models follow two historic guitars in Frignani's collection, a 1910 Manuel Ramírez and a 1906 Enrique García, which she studied for years, alongside a design of her own. Her guitars are light and quick to respond, with the natural, earthy warmth of those old instruments and modern clarity and volume.