2019 Pavel Gavryushov CD/AR

Year	2019
Top	Cedar
Back & Sides	African Rosewood
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	52 mm
Finish	French Polish
Country	Spain
Luthier	Pavel Gavryushov

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Ástor Piazzolla's "Invierno Porteño" played by Mateusz Kowalski

Dominic Flynn's "Red Velvet" played by Max Kraus, bass and Dominic Flynn

Description

A 2019 classical guitar by Pavel Gavryushov, with a cedar top and African rosewood back and sides – our first guitar from him.

In the videos above, Mateusz Kowalski plays Piazzolla's "Invierno Porteño", and Dominic Flynn (with Max Kraus on bass) plays his "Red Velvet" on this guitar.

A Spectacular First Guitar

GSI's David Collett first met Pavel years ago in Moscow, when Pavel was working with Timophey Tkach, but it was at the Frankfurt fair in 2018 that we saw a guitar of his we found truly spectacular – and immediately ordered one. This is it.

Sound

Firm and refined, clean and stable yet open and charming, it is full and rich, perfectly balanced at any volume, and very comfortable to play.

Background

Pavel Gavryushov: A Russian Luthier in Granada

Pavel Gavryushov was born in Russia in 1969. An engineer from the St. Petersburg Shipbuilding University who worked five years at a nuclear power plant, he was also a guitarist, accompanying at the St. Petersburg Songs Theater. He made his first guitar in 2000 under Sergei Rusakov in St. Petersburg, worked in the Moscow workshop of Timophey Tkach, and studied in Granada with Antonio Marín Montero; in 2014 he moved to Granada and set up his own workshop.

Science and the Spanish Tradition

Pavel builds in the Spanish tradition established by Antonio de Torres and developed by the great 20th-century makers, bringing an engineer's knowledge of physics and acoustics to his work. He also runs a school of guitar making in Granada for students from around the world. His guitars are played by Aniello Desiderio and Dmitry Nilov, among others.