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stefan sobell instruments
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Stefan Sobell Musical Instruments hand made instruments, guitars, mandolins, bouzoukis, citterns.
My workshop is the Old School in the rural Northumbrian village of Whitley Chapel. It's made up of two handwork shops and a machine area, with space to stack and season the different woods. It's cosy and compact without being cramped, and has large windows with pleasant views over green fields.
The second member of the team is David Wilson, who finishes all my instruments (as well as those of most good builders in the North of England). He has his own workshop in Haltwhistle, a small town nearby, and also builds (and plays) electric basses.
My interest in acoustic instruments began in the British folk clubs of the 1960s. In those days of unamplified venues we were all searching for instruments with good power and tone; at that time there weren't many around. I experimented with the instruments I had and soon found that with a little thought and experimentation I could make a reasonable instrument sound considerably worse; a hard way to learn, especially when the modifications were non-reversible ...
My workshop is the Old School in the rural Northumbrian village of Whitley Chapel. It's made up of two handwork shops and a machine area, with space to stack and season the different woods. It's cosy and compact without being cramped, and has large windows with pleasant views over green fields.
The second member of the team is David Wilson, who finishes all my instruments (as well as those of most good builders in the North of England). He has his own workshop in Haltwhistle, a small town nearby, and also builds (and plays) electric basses.
My interest in acoustic instruments began in the British folk clubs of the 1960s. In those days of unamplified venues we were all searching for instruments with good power and tone; at that time there weren't many around. I experimented with the instruments I had and soon found that with a little thought and experimentation I could make a reasonable instrument sound considerably worse; a hard way to learn, especially when the modifications were non-reversible ...
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Classical Guitars: Koutsialis Charalambos: Mostly, the guitars that I make, have a top from spruce.
I prefer it for its sound cleanness, I put by request cedar wood also, that gives larger volume on the note, but does not have the cleanness of spruce.
The spruce that I use is from Alps, from the side of Switzerland, which is considered the best and in rating, is first quality.
The top has a slight cavity on two directions, horizontal and vertical.
The horizontal (only) to the side of the fingerboard (neck) is bigger, such, an overhead fingerboard is created, for the fingers to easily pass on the fingerboards that exist on the boat ...
I prefer it for its sound cleanness, I put by request cedar wood also, that gives larger volume on the note, but does not have the cleanness of spruce.
The spruce that I use is from Alps, from the side of Switzerland, which is considered the best and in rating, is first quality.
The top has a slight cavity on two directions, horizontal and vertical.
The horizontal (only) to the side of the fingerboard (neck) is bigger, such, an overhead fingerboard is created, for the fingers to easily pass on the fingerboards that exist on the boat ...
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Robert Anderson Guitars, hand built acoustic guitars homepage, The Schoenberg concept: 'Replicating the older classic models is for us a means to an end. We believe strongly that there is great advantage to learning from past traditions, and expanding to the present. As in the history of art, each generation expands (hopefully) the knowledge given it by the progression of artists from the beginning of time. Reinventing the wheel seems like going backwards; one great much-used way of expressing this is, "the only way out is through".' - Eric Schoenberg
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