2024 German Vázquez Rubio "Hauser" No. 031024 SP/IN

This 2024 German Vázquez Rubio “Hauser” No. 031024 is a classical guitar with a spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides, made in Los Angeles, California – quarter-sawn Indian rosewood with a maple center strip; Maya Lončar plays Dyens in the video above.

After Segovia’s 1937 Hauser

The inspiration is the iconic 1937 Hauser I, immortalized by Andrés Segovia over decades of concerts and recordings and now on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City; German follows it above all in its structural details.

This is the model that won German First Place at the Concurso Nacional de Constructores y Ejecutantes de Guitarras in 2000, and it is perhaps his best known – John Holmquist and Jason Vieaux have used it on five Naxos recordings between them.

Materials and Sound

The sound quality, craftsmanship and playability of this guitar easily live up to its reputation. The materials are first class, including a gorgeous set of quarter-sawn Indian rosewood for the back and sides with a tasteful maple center strip. It records and concertizes beautifully – bold, clear and balanced. An absolutely stunning instrument all around from this very respected maker. No. 031024 is written on the label, which is dated 2024 and signed by German.

In the Video Above

Maya Lončar plays “India” from Roland Dyens’s “Libra Sonatine” on a 2024 German Vázquez Rubio “Hauser”.

German Vázquez Rubio: Early Years in Paracho, Mexico

German Vázquez Rubio (also known as G.V. Rubio) has been making guitars since 1968 – over fifty years – and has developed his own signature sound that guitarists have come to love. He was born in 1952 in Paracho, Mexico, where there is an abundance of fine luthiers (with few exceptions, all of the finest guitars in Mexico come from Paracho). German’s first formal training began at eleven years old, when he left school to help support his seven siblings and went to work in the workshop of his uncle, Manuel Rubio. There, even at his young age, he made a conscious effort to make guitar building his life’s work.

“Desde 1968”

In 1968, at the age of sixteen, he made his first concert-level guitar (hence his label reads “Desde 1968”). German has since been able to learn from many different master builders such as Félix Manzanero, José Romanillos and Thomas Humphrey. He now resides in Los Angeles, California, where he builds a variety of both classical and flamenco models. He is also the maker of the real-life guitar from the Disney/Pixar film Coco – you can read more in our article on German Vázquez Rubio and the real Coco guitar.

First Prize in Mexico

In 2000, German won First Place at the Concurso Nacional de Constructores y Ejecutantes de Guitarras, Mexico’s national guitar-making competition.