2026 Dietmar Heubner SP/AR

This new 2026 Dietmar Heubner is a classical guitar with an alpine spruce top and African rosewood back and sides, built in his Berlin workshop in July 2026 for GSI – his exclusive representative in the USA.

Alpine Spruce and Dark African Rosewood

For this guitar, Dietmar chose a beautiful, dark set of African rosewood – one that looks almost like CSA rosewood – and paired it with a top of alpine spruce. His trademark details are all here: the rosette of tiny wood mosaics framed by two mosaics of connected diamonds, a rosewood-veneered headstock with wooden tuner buttons, and a French polish of the highest quality.

The Sound of Dietmar Heubner’s Refined Bracing

We’re always impressed with each new guitar Dietmar sends us – wide dynamic range, great balance, tonal color and maximal projection – but he is particularly proud of this one. Over his last few guitars he has slightly modified and refined his bracing, and in his own words, this guitar “has turned out to be the best one you’ve received from me so far – in every respect that defines my guitars: balance, dynamics, projection, and power. Furthermore, the sound has gained depth in the bass, while the trebles sing with a full, rounded timbre.” Overall, an extremely impressive instrument for quality of build and for quality and quantity of sound.

Tal Hurwitz and Sanel Redžić

Dietmar’s new sound has already won over two fine concert guitarists: Tal Hurwitz and Sanel Redžić were thrilled with it, and Sanel immediately ordered a new guitar of his own. Sanel will be coming to GSI soon to record a video on this very guitar – a superb new concert instrument from Berlin.

Dietmar Heubner: From Stuttgart to Berlin

Like so many of the world’s top luthiers of the past, German luthier Dietmar Heubner started out his woodworking career as a cabinet maker in Stuttgart in the 1980s but quickly turned to the construction of classical guitars. After nearly 30 years of working in southern Germany, Dietmar moved his workshop to Berlin in the summer of 2018, where he joined a small community of luthiers who call themselves the “Berlin Luthiers” – colleagues and friends who find their collective a fertile ground for mutual inspiration and the genuine exchange of experience. GSI is his exclusive representative in the USA.

Traditional Guitars with a Bold, Modern Sound

Dietmar focuses on building traditional guitars with a bold, modern sound that allows musicians to create their own individual tone. His emphasis is on a wide dynamic range, great balance, an abundance of tonal colors and maximal projection, and he has an understated yet extremely elegant and precise aesthetic: a rosette of an inner mosaic of tiny pieces of wood between bands of purfling, with two outer mosaics of connected diamonds, and a French polish of the highest quality.