2024 Teodoro Perez "Antigua" SP/AR

This 2024 Teodoro Pérez "Antigua" is a spruce and African rosewood classical guitar made in Madrid, Spain, and available in the USA exclusively at GSI.

The Teodoro Pérez "Antigua" Model

The "Antigua" is the newest model from the Pérez shop. Like the "Concierto," it is entirely French polished and built with single sides (where the Maestro and Especial use doubled sides), but it pairs beautiful African rosewood back and sides with a more compact body – hence the name, which looks back to a "Torres"-shaped plantilla and box depth.

A Modern Madrid Guitar with the Feel of a Guitarra Antigua

Its body proportions are smaller than the standard Pérez guitar, yet the playing measurements are regular, and the sound is just as distinctly Spanish: full and romantic, with a quick attack. Simply put, this is a fantastic top-level concert guitar by any standard – especially for the player who wants a modern Madrid-style instrument with the more compact feel of a "guitarra antigua".

Trained in the José Ramírez III Workshop

Teodoro Pérez was born in 1952 in the province of Soria, Spain, but moved to Madrid while still very young. In 1966 he began his apprenticeship in the famed José Ramírez III workshop, where he built guitars, lutes, bandurrias and mandolins. During these years, he had the great honor to meet some of the great maestros of the twentieth century, including Andrés Segovia, Narciso Yepes and many others. In 1970, after passing the appropriate tests, and with the approval of José Ramírez, he qualified as First Official, and stamped the guitars he made with his initials GPM.

Tezanos-Pérez and a Family Workshop in Madrid

In 1991, Teodoro teamed up with fellow Ramírez veteran Mariano Tezanos, and built guitars under the name "Tezanos-Pérez" until 2005. Today he builds with his family: his son, Sergio Pérez, who has been assisting him in his work since 1998, his daughter, Beatriz, and his son-in-law, Marco Tejeda. Sergio and Marco also build guitars under their own names. GSI is proud to represent these guitars exclusively in the United States.