Classical Guitar News & Updates

Just Arrived: A magnificent, new 2013 Robert Ruck spruce/cedar double top concert guitar with an elevated fingerboard. First brought to world attention by Manuel Barrueco, today Robert Ruck’s concert instruments are prized around the world for their warm traditional sound, power, quick response, and unusually easy playability…
Just Arrived: A new 2013 spruce top concert guitar by the gifted Italian maker Daniele Chiesa. While the sound of Chiesa's instruments is characteristically warm, sweet, round, and clear (the Italian influence), Chiesa's powerful concert guitars also embody the alluring sonic earthiness so characteristic of the Granada School…
Just Arrived: A wonderful new Hauser I reproduction by Gary Southwell. Fashioned after the vintage 1940 Rose Augustine Hauser I guitar that Julian Bream performed and recorded with towards the end of his international touring career - Southwell's beautiful Hauser copies capture the essence of their illustrious progenitor (even down to the original instrument's soundboard and back tap tones) with uncanny accuracy….
Just Arrived: A beautiful new double top by Achim Peter Gropius of Germany: Ind. sides and back with a spruce/Nomex/spruce soundboard and slightly elevated fingerboard. (Learn more)
Just Arrived: An incredible concert guitar by Jeffrey R. Elliott. The classical guitars of Jeffrey R. Elliott are unique, contemporary, musical works of art - individually handcrafted concert guitars which possess a magnificent signature sound of unsurpassed refinement, complexity and beauty: pure sparkling quick singing trebles, firm deep clear resonant basses, unusually wide color palette, excellent separation, intonation and evenness of sound…
Free: Order the new Guitars International forty page color catalog. Contains: a wide selection of classical guitar photos and synopses describing the work of twenty-eight of the world's finest contemporary guitar makers; five in depth articles by Howard Bass, Daniel Lippel, Jonathan Leathwood, Jonathan Fitzgerald, and Colin Davin; and an editor's preface by Armin Kelly, Founder and Owner of Guitars International...