2016 Annette Stephany "García" SP/MP

Year	2016
Top	Spruce
Back & Sides	Maple
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	52 mm
Finish	French Polish
Country	Germany
Luthier	Annette Stephany

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Andrew York 'Woven World' - Wesley Park plays 2016 Annette Stephany

Description

A 2016 "García" classical guitar by Annette Stephany, with a spruce top and flamed maple back, sides and head veneer – after the 1906 Enrique García owned by Lorenzo Frignani.

In the video above, Wesley Park plays "Woven World" from Andrew York's "Woven Harmony" on this guitar.

After a 1906 García

Annette copied the 9+2 symmetrical bracing of the original, along with its head shape and rosette, and finished the flamed maple with a violin varnishing technique learned from Frignani.

Light and Lyrical

She captures the spirit of the García: a light build and a beautiful, lyrical sound, with great clarity between voices and surprising volume.

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.