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Group: rec.music.classical.guitar · Group Profile
Author: steve ganz
Date: May 13, 2008 16:49

Ivan wrote:
> On May 12, 6:49 pm, Tashi starband.net> wrote:
>> On May 12, 6:21 pm, Ivan gmail.com> wrote:
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>>> On May 12, 8:06 am, Tashi starband.net> wrote:
>>>> Dear friends please tell us which of these three guitars sounds the
>>>> best. It looks like they were all recorded at the Naxos studio, so
>>>> they should all have the same recording quality. My guess is Dylla is
>>>> playing a double top. Petrit a traditional, and Jouve is playing a
>>>> Smallman.
>>>> Marcin Dyllahttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zOFrb7MYek
>>>> Petrit Cekuhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7EJbEws9yM
>>>> Jeremy Jouvehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83vBKKG05c4
>>>> MT
>>> I like Dylla the best too... If the plays what he usually plays, the
>>> guitar should be a double-top Teryks.
>>> I actually visited Teryks about two years ago in Mainz, Germany -
>>> extremely nice guy...
>> I think that's the guy Marcin told me first came up with the double
>> top idea. Do you you know anything about that story?
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> Not sure if he came first with this idea (or Damman/Wagner) but I
> remember he told me that he is using a lattice bracing under the
> double top. I played two of his guitars (double top spruce) and was
> really impressed by one of them (the other one was just finished and
> had not oppened yet I guess) but at that time his price tag was too
> high for me. Again, a very nice guy (he invited me in his house, we
> talked a lot, he even gave me a brand new CD of M. Dylla.) Afterwards
> I have listened to his guitar played by L. Kuropaczewski, also a great
> player...
>
> OTOH, has any of you used a redwood for top? The idea sounds
> interesting.... Never played a redowod top guitar.
>
First guitar I ever built... 1970, was redwood.
Since then I've run across some really nice ones, but I'm really a
spruce guy.
ganzo
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