2021 Henner Hagenlocher SP/CSAR

This 2021 Henner Hagenlocher is a classical guitar with a spruce top and CSA rosewood back and sides, built in Eutingen, Germany, one of a pair he built for GSI that year.

Bearclaw Spruce and Colorful Rosewood

As can be seen in the photos, the guitar is breathtaking. Henner used some of his top materials, including a silky spruce top with subtle bearclaw figuring and some colorful and beautiful rosewood for the back and sides. It is fitted with a limited-edition set of tuners from Fustero, who has "retired" but still makes a very few tuners for some select clients.

Sound and Playability

The body is slightly smaller, as usual with Henner, yet the guitar is quite powerful, with a rich, textured tone of thick basses and lyrical trebles. With its easy action and slender, comfortable neck it plays superbly, and thanks to the light build the attack is immediate - very responsive and very satisfying to play. We highly recommend it to the concert or recording artist.

Photos of this guitar during construction

Henner Hagenlocher and the Granada School

German guitar maker Henner Hagenlocher is considered one of the great makers of the Granada school. He began building guitars in 1993, while living in London, where he studied Music Technology at London Guildhall University and was introduced to modern design concepts aimed largely at increasing volume. He found that these resulted in instruments that were too heavy and clumsy for his taste. His guitar teacher at the time owned a guitar by Antonio Marín Montero, and Henner liked it so much that he decided to learn more about the Granada school: in 1996 he visited Marín's workshop, was immediately captivated by the Granada style, and soon settled in Granada, opening his own workshop close by.

From Granada to Eutingen

Since then his guitars have blended the Marín influence with qualities of the old, traditional Spanish guitars, discovered through his extensive study of great masters such as Torres, Santos Hernández and Manuel Ramírez. His instruments are therefore lightweight, with an immediate, explosive attack - and although he builds in a largely traditional style, they have great power and projection. After some twenty years in Granada, Henner moved back to his native Germany in 2018, and today he works in Eutingen, about 50 km from Stuttgart. GSI is his exclusive dealer in the USA.