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Antonio Raya Pardo — A Granada Master of Two Lineages

Antonio Raya Pardo — A Granada Master of Two Li...

Antonio Raya Pardo — A Granada Luthier of Two Lineages Granada has produced a remarkable line of guitar makers whose work has shaped the sound of the classical guitar throughout...

Antonio Raya Pardo — A Granada Master of Two Li...

Antonio Raya Pardo — A Granada Luthier of Two Lineages Granada has produced a remarkable line of guitar makers whose work has shaped the sound of the classical guitar throughout...

Louis Panormo — "The Only Maker of Guitars in the Spanish Style"

Louis Panormo — "The Only Maker of Guitars in t...

Long before Spanish guitars were common outside Spain, one London workshop was already building them — and saying so on every label. Louis Panormo (1784–1862) proudly stamped his guitars "The...

Louis Panormo — "The Only Maker of Guitars in t...

Long before Spanish guitars were common outside Spain, one London workshop was already building them — and saying so on every label. Louis Panormo (1784–1862) proudly stamped his guitars "The...

George Harrison's Classical Guitar — The Ramírez Behind "And I Love Her"

George Harrison's Classical Guitar — The Ramíre...

George Harrison's Classical Guitar — The Ramírez Behind Norwegian Wood George Harrison (1943–2001) was not a classical guitarist — he was one of the greatest rock musicians of the twentieth...

George Harrison's Classical Guitar — The Ramíre...

George Harrison's Classical Guitar — The Ramírez Behind Norwegian Wood George Harrison (1943–2001) was not a classical guitarist — he was one of the greatest rock musicians of the twentieth...

Pino Daniele — Naples, the Blues and a Nylon-String Guitar

Pino Daniele — Naples, the Blues and a Nylon-St...

Pino Daniele — Naples, the Blues and a Nylon-String Guitar Italy loved Pino Daniele (1955–2015) as one of its greatest singer-songwriters, but guitarists love him for something more specific: he...

Pino Daniele — Naples, the Blues and a Nylon-St...

Pino Daniele — Naples, the Blues and a Nylon-String Guitar Italy loved Pino Daniele (1955–2015) as one of its greatest singer-songwriters, but guitarists love him for something more specific: he...

José Feliciano — The Man Who Brought the Nylon Guitar to Pop

José Feliciano — The Man Who Brought the Nylon ...

José Feliciano — The Man Who Brought the Nylon Guitar to Pop Before Sting or Willie Nelson, one musician proved that the nylon-string classical guitar could top the pop charts:...

José Feliciano — The Man Who Brought the Nylon ...

José Feliciano — The Man Who Brought the Nylon Guitar to Pop Before Sting or Willie Nelson, one musician proved that the nylon-string classical guitar could top the pop charts:...

The Last of Us Guitar — How Nylon Strings Scored a Masterpiece

The Last of Us Guitar — How Nylon Strings Score...

The Last of Us Guitar – Gustavo Santaolalla's Nylon-String Masterpiece Few instruments have defined a piece of entertainment as completely as Gustavo Santaolalla's nylon-string guitar defined The Last of Us....

The Last of Us Guitar — How Nylon Strings Score...

The Last of Us Guitar – Gustavo Santaolalla's Nylon-String Masterpiece Few instruments have defined a piece of entertainment as completely as Gustavo Santaolalla's nylon-string guitar defined The Last of Us....

Willie Nelson's "Trigger" — The World's Most Famous Classical Guitar

Willie Nelson's "Trigger" — The World's Most Fa...

Willie Nelson's "Trigger" — The World's Most Famous Classical Guitar Willie Nelson's guitar "Trigger" is the most famous nylon-string guitar in American music history. A 1969 Martin N-20 classical guitar,...

Willie Nelson's "Trigger" — The World's Most Fa...

Willie Nelson's "Trigger" — The World's Most Famous Classical Guitar Willie Nelson's guitar "Trigger" is the most famous nylon-string guitar in American music history. A 1969 Martin N-20 classical guitar,...

Does Sting Play Classical Guitar? Nylon at the Heart of His Songs

Does Sting Play Classical Guitar? Nylon at the ...

Sting and the Classical Guitar — Songs from the Labyrinth Most people picture Sting with a bass guitar, fronting The Police. But across his solo career — and in one...

Does Sting Play Classical Guitar? Nylon at the ...

Sting and the Classical Guitar — Songs from the Labyrinth Most people picture Sting with a bass guitar, fronting The Police. But across his solo career — and in one...

Johann Georg Stauffer — The Vienna Maker Behind Martin Guitars

Johann Georg Stauffer — The Vienna Maker Behind...

Johann Georg Stauffer – The Vienna Maker Behind C.F. Martin Johann Georg Stauffer (1778–1853) was one of the most consequential guitar makers of the early nineteenth century. Working from Vienna...

Johann Georg Stauffer — The Vienna Maker Behind...

Johann Georg Stauffer – The Vienna Maker Behind C.F. Martin Johann Georg Stauffer (1778–1853) was one of the most consequential guitar makers of the early nineteenth century. Working from Vienna...

Richard Jacob "Weißgerber" — Germany's Most Inventive Guitar Maker

Richard Jacob "Weißgerber" — Germany's Most Inv...

Germany's great contribution to the classical guitar is usually told through Hermann Hauser. But there is a second German name every collector should know: Richard Jacob, who signed his instruments...

Richard Jacob "Weißgerber" — Germany's Most Inv...

Germany's great contribution to the classical guitar is usually told through Hermann Hauser. But there is a second German name every collector should know: Richard Jacob, who signed his instruments...

Robert Bouchet — The Painter Who Founded the French School

Robert Bouchet — The Painter Who Founded the Fr...

Few stories in lutherie are as unlikely as that of Robert Bouchet. He was a respected Paris painter who did not build his first guitar until he was forty-eight —...

Robert Bouchet — The Painter Who Founded the Fr...

Few stories in lutherie are as unlikely as that of Robert Bouchet. He was a respected Paris painter who did not build his first guitar until he was forty-eight —...

José Luis Romanillos — Maker, Scholar and the "Spanish Sound"

José Luis Romanillos — Maker, Scholar and the "...

A few makers are remembered as much for their writing as for their guitars. José Luis Romanillos (1932–2022) is one of them: a luthier whose instruments carried the pure, balanced...

José Luis Romanillos — Maker, Scholar and the "...

A few makers are remembered as much for their writing as for their guitars. José Luis Romanillos (1932–2022) is one of them: a luthier whose instruments carried the pure, balanced...

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