2026 Wolfgang Jellinghaus "Alemana EF SP/CD" SP/AR

This 2026 Wolfgang Jellinghaus "Alemana EF SP/CD" is a spruce/cedar double-top classical guitar with African rosewood back and sides, built in the Jellinghaus workshop in China and available in the USA exclusively at GSI.

The Jellinghaus "Alemana EF" Model

This is Wolfgang Jellinghaus' "Alemana EF" model, which is similar to his well-known "Signature" model with a few modifications, including a standard elevated fingerboard, single sides and African rosewood for the back and sides.

Bracing and the Spruce/Cedar Double Top

Internally, the bracing system is designed to help move sound into the upper bout. The lower harmonic bar is open on either side of the rosette, and there is no upper harmonic bar at all, so the sound moves easily and efficiently from the bridge area all the way into the uppermost reaches of the top, using most of the soundboard to produce sound. Volume is therefore huge on this instrument, also in part due to the lightweight lattice-braced double-top system for the soundboard (Nomex in between an outer piece of spruce and an inner piece of cedar).

Playability

The guitar is also incredibly easy to play – partly due to the immediate responsiveness, requiring little effort from the right hand, but also due to the sleek, easy neck shape for the left hand. Overall a very impressive concert guitar, particularly at this price point.

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A Guitar Maker's Son from Dortmund

Wolfgang Jellinghaus (1951–2024) was born in Dortmund, Germany. His father, Walter Jellinghaus, was himself a guitar maker and naturally introduced the craft to Wolfgang at a young age. In 1978, Wolfgang began managing his family's retail music shop, Musik Jellinghaus GmbH, and in 1983 he created Martinez Guitars, designing their first line of guitars.

Replicas of Torres, Lacote, Hauser and Ramírez

In 2013, he set up an independent workshop in China, building guitars under the name "Milestones of Music": a small, traditional boutique workshop that specialized in making high-quality guitars in the style of such great historical makers as Lacote, Antonio de Torres, Hauser and Ramírez, among others. He later developed a new line of instruments under his own name, and with Edmund Blöchinger he refined many of his replicas and established the La Cañada line.

Exclusive to GSI in the USA

GSI is proud to be the exclusive U.S. dealer for Wolfgang Jellinghaus guitars, one of the most popular lines we've ever carried. Since Wolfgang's passing in 2024, the successors of his business have carried on the work he established (read our tribute).