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Sebastian Stenzel - 2017

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Sebastian Stenzel has been making guitars since 1989 when he began his apprenticeship at Gert Esmyol’s workshop. He completed this apprenticeship in 1991 and focused on developing his personal guitar model. In 1996, he finally opened his own workshop in Munich. Shortly afterwards, in 1998, he was awarded the Bavarian Government’s Master’s Prize as part of his Master’s degree. As a “guitar making theory” professor, he has been teaching at the Mozarteum in Salzburg since 2002. Since 2011, he has been working in his workshop in Emmendingen. Following his ideal of sound, he builds guitars that “have sonorous, floating basses, a warm, creamy mid-range and lyrical, singing trebles. The sound should offer the musician all possibilities of sound shaping and dynamics, without being obtrusive.” (Quote: S. Stenzel)

Sebastian Stenzel built this exclusive guitar with astonishing yet inspiring woods. The combination of a dark cedar top with vivid Whitty Pear is genuinely unique, and the result is terrific. This lightweight guitar fills the room with a warm, expressive tone, displaying dense trebles and expansive basses. Its generous volume makes playing just as enjoyable as listening and comfort the guitarist in expressive and dynamic playing. Moreover, all Stenzel guitars have a unique neck and fingerboard shape, yielding considerable benefits for playability and giving the guitarist more freedom to focus on the music. This playful and reliable guitar is one of a kind, and we are thrilled to offer an instrument that stands out by its unusual woods yet meeting the highest standards in terms of sound.

Luthier: Sebastian Stenzel
Construction year: 2017
Top: Cedar
Body and sides: Whitty Pear
Scale: 650 mm
Nut: 52 mm
Weight: 1449 grams
Air resonance frequency: F#
Tuners: Alessi
Strings: Knobloch 400ADC
Case: Hardshell
Condition: Excellent

 

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