Classical Guitar News & Updates

August 17, 2015

Just Arrived: Three new Visesnot ultra light flight cases with carbon black, copper bronze, and black exteriors. The Visesnut case weighs only seven pounds. Its body is made from a unique double wall structure designed to absorb impacts and insulate from extreme temperature changes. The case's interior is lined with a soft plush material and a unique adjustable cushioned suspension system which allows the case's side padding to be adjusted via a support belt to fit the outline of just about any standard and many smaller size classical guitars...

August 16, 2015

Just Arrived: A beautiful 2013 double top Eric Monrad "Black Guitar." We consider this to be a landmark design from this highly esteemed master guitar maker: outstanding tonal beauty, power, exquisite visual beauty, and meticulous craftsmanship - all in one extraordinary musical instrument...

June 19, 2015

Just Arrived: The BAM La Défense Hightech 8002 XLA hard shell classical guitar case. This latest Bam Hightech case is small, stylish with its brushed aluminum exterior look, ultra light (weighs only 6.2 pounds), and strong. Drawing upon its years of experience developing and producing a highly regarded line of Hightech violin and 'cello cases, BAM's Hightech clasical guitar cases offer outstanding shock, compression and thermal protection...

May 9, 2015

Just Arrived: Two exceptional new 2015 Antonio Marin Montero classical guitars: One Ziricote/spruce, the other Indian/ spruce. We have had the honor to represent this great master for the last twenty-five years. Simply stated: These two concert guitars are among the very finest Antonio Marin guitars it has been our pleasure to hear or play. A former protege of the great French luthier, Robert Bouchet, Marin's concert guitars are a unique musical blend of Northern European and Spanish guitar making traditions. Highly sought after around the world, a new instrument as this one obtained directly from this great master is cause for celebration indeed...

May 2, 2015

Just Arrived: A new Garcia Model by master luthier Walter Verreydt. This lovely, very smooth sounding, impeccably crafted traditional guitar is a musical jewel. It has a wonderful large refined concert sound, excellent sustain and balance, and a wide palette of color and attack. The trebles are strong, round, quick to speak, and pure; the basses rich, deep, and clear. It is both easy and great fun to play due to its comfortaable action, overall musical flexibility, and warm alluring sound...

April 5, 2015

Just Arrived: A wonderful new 2015 Simon Ambridge Hauser I copy classical guitar. Simon Ambridge writes: "In 2008 I had the opportunity to measure and absorb a fine 1940 Hauser I guitar. For me the original represents a kind of perfection of the luthier's craft in terms of its restrained aesthetic and refinement of tone. In November 2009 Julian Bream purchased a Hauser I copy from me, a guitar which he is delighted with not only for its overall appearance but in terms of its weight, feel, and sound qualities." We concur; this is an absolutely spectacular guitar in every way...

March 14, 2015

Just Arrived: A new 2015 German Vazquez Rubio Premium Elite Model classical guitar. Vazquez Rubio's Premium Elite Model has a lush deep traditional sound and is powerful, warm, smooth and even from note to note up and down and across the strings. It has also a particularly comfortable action and neck contour, a quick response, refined understated visual aesthetics, and superb craftsmanship. In sum, this is a magnificent, very musical modern concert guitar which does not sacrifice quality of sound for extended dynamic range...

February 11, 2015

Just Arrived: A new 2015 Gregory Byers concert guitar with an all wood double fan lattice bracing system and laminated sides for additional power and projection. This guitar also features an elevated fingerboard with a 20th first string fret, Rodgers L201 tuning machine heads with ebony oval buttons, a perfectly executed 'V' graft head to neck joint, immaculate workmanship, French polish of shellac finish, Byers' proprietary nut and saddle compensation system for unusually accurate intonation, and superb materials and workmanship...

February 10, 2015

Just Arrived: A new 2015 Thomas Holt 10th Anniversary Model classical guitar. Although one can hear in Holt's rich, clear sound the influence of his Granada mentors, his lovely classical guitars have very much their own warm, deep, polished, musical voice. Balance, playability, materials, and workmanship are superb. This guitar comes with Rodgers L299 tuning machine heads with ebony oval buttons, a 20th first string fret, immaculate French polish of shellac finish, and a 640mm string length. This is an outstanding very responsive traditional concert instrument...

February 8, 2015

Congratulations to classical guitarist Jason Vieaux, 2015 Grammy Award Winner for Best Classical Instrumental Solo. Hear Grammy Award Winner Jason Vieaux and internationally renowned harpist Yolanda Kondonassis perform in duo at the Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival: May 28 - 31, 2015 at the Cleveland Institute of Music...

February 4, 2015

Just Arrived: A very rare, very powerful Matthias Dammann classical guitar. This guitar has had two owners: The first, Grammy award winning classical guitarist David Russell; the second, classical guitarist Román González. David Russell writes:

"This was the second Dammann I owned, and I used it for several years. I recorded my 2001 Telarc CD, David Russell Plays Baroque Music, on this guitar and played numerous concerts on it. I then sold this guitar to my good friend Román González who used it until his untimely death about a year ago."

February 1, 2015

Check it out: A wonderful, very rare, classical guitar made by David Rubio in 1968. This concert guitar was handcrafted by this late, great master (not an assistant) in Oxfordshire, England when he was making guitars for Julian Bream, the Abreu Duo, and others. The sound of this instrument is rich, dark, very even, and alive...

January 28, 2015

Check it out: A custom, as new, one owner 1993 Manuel Velazquez classical guitar. This guitar was made especially for Armin Kelly, founder of Guitars International. The quality of sound and materials are unsurpassed. Manuel Velazquez counts among his influences Torres, Hauser I, and Santos Hernandez (to whom he was related). Included with the sale of this guitar will be a letter of provenance writen and signed by Manuel Velazquez...

January 20, 2015

Check it out: A very rare classical guitar by Cyndy Burton. We call this traditional concert guitar our giant killer since few of the so called machismo guitars can out project it. It is one of the most refined, complex sounding Hauser I influenced instruments we've played...

December 20, 2014

Check it out: An as new, mint example of Italian guitar maker Enrico Bottelli's premiere model: This traditionally constructed guitar features Bottelli's finest work: rare old materials, precise craftsmanship, elegant inlay work, Rodgers precision tuning machine heads with ebony buttons, and "V" graft head to neck joint. Comes with a Bam 8002XL Hightech case...

December 1, 2014

Just Arrived: A spectacular Joshia de Jonge classical guitar with an elevated fingerboard. This is an exceptional concert instrument. It combines northern European traditional tonal beauty with the quick response and laser-like projection of the most successful, innovative contemporary guitars. Both very musical and very powerful, this player friendly, world class, concert instrument has a highly appealing warm, creamy, very smooth signature sound and a wide palette of color and attack. Each note is like a polished jewel...

November 21, 2014

Call For Best Price: Bam 8002XL Hightech classical guitar cases. Large inventory in stock with silver carbon, black carbon, tweed grey, and white exteriors. In designing these small, sleek, hard shell cases Bam has drawn upon its years of experience developing and producing its highly regarded line of Hightech violin and 'cello cases. Ultra light, ultra strong, BAM's L'Original Hightech clasical guitar cases offer outstanding shock, compression, and thermal protection...

November 5, 2014

Just Arrived: A new 2014 Robert and Orville Milburn double top classical guitar. A modern concert guitar of impressive refinement, this guitar embodies a unique synthesis of composite double top design (as pioneered by the great contemporary German master, Gernot Wagner) and a modern variant of Hauser I's seven fan bracing system. Quick round trebles, deep well defined basses, outstanding projection, very smooth response (this guitar is nearly impossible to overdrive) make this classical guitar an extremely impressive concert instrument...

October 27, 2014

Just Arrived: A brilliant new Stauffer reproduction by Bernhard Kresse. Over a career spanning many years Kresse has acquired an extensive knowledge of 19th century guitar making traditions, both by examining and restoring original instruments in his Cologne workshop and by conducting extensive research in museums and private collections. His inspired reproductions are performed and recorded upon by an unusually large and distinguished group of artists...

September 12, 2014

Just arrived: Four gorgeous sets of Rodgers Hauser style tuning machine heads: (1) L111 sets with ebony or mother of pearl oval buttons, (2) L299 sets also with ebony or mother of pearl oval buttons. Rodgers' tuning machine heads are recognized around the world to be the most elegantly designed, finely crafted, smoothest, accurate, reliable, visually beautiful classical guitar tuning machines ever made...

July 11, 2014

Just Arrived: A mint condition classical guitar by Italian luthier Paolo Coriani. Constructed in the style of Manuel Ramirez, this is a fine traditional fan braced instrument with a clear, balanced, warm, somewhat aged sound both across and up and down the strings. Playability is excellent. Offered here at a very reasonable price...

July 9, 2014

Just Arrived: A Special Edition of Gary Southwell's A Model guitar. While this innovative modern concert instrument's warm, round, unusually pure sound harks back in part to the elegant 19th century guitars of Lacote and Panormo, its power, breadth of dynamic range, wide palette of color and attack, and other innovations look forward to today's twenty-first century modern concert needs...

June 16, 2014

For those who could not attend the 14th annual Cleveland International Classical Guitar Festival last May, you can access the Festival's forty-eight page program book here: artists biographies, extensive program notes, and more...

Many thanks to this year's artists for making this year's Festival such an unqualified success: Petra Polácková, Nigel North, Carrie Henneman Shaw, Matteo Mela, Lorenzo Micheli, Robert Gruca, Julian Labro, Jason Vieaux, Jeffrey Elliott, Cyndy Burton, Brad DeRoche, and Krystin O'Mara.

May 14, 2014

Just Arrived: An exceptional, elegant, rare Jeffrey R. Elliott classical guitar. The classical guitars of Jeffrey R. Elliott are exceptional works of art - magnificent concert guitars possessing unsurpassed musical refinement, purity and beauty of sound: quick powerful warm singing trebles, deep resonant basses, great evenness of sound, and a particularly broad palette of color and attack...

April 18, 2014

Just Arrived: SP #6 by Robert Ruck - a very rare harmonious masterpiece. One of only thirteen limited edition instruments this great maker has crafted over his distinguished career, this is one of the finest, most refined, most musically responsive cedar top classical guitars it has been our pleasure to play or hear. See new photos...

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