Classical Guitar News & Updates

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July, 22, 2010

Just arrived: A beautiful new 2010 German Vazquez Rubio custom 635mm short scale Estudio Model classical guitar - excellent dynamic range, clear beautiful warm sound, superb balance and color range, exceptional playability, fine materials and workmanship - a wonderful, very musical guitar for those players requiring a very responsive classical guitar with a shorter string length...

June 22, 2010

In stock: The ultimate travel case compliment: The new, light weight, form fitting Bam Hightech 8002 XL Case within Case Cover - with its one to two inches of high resilient injected foam protection and water resistant outer material - provides a tough, easily removable, padded outer structure around BAM's sleek, best selling, super impact resistant Hightech 8002 XL classical guitar case. Bam's unique case within case cover comes with a large expandable pocket for sheet music, a smaller pocket for documents, and two comfortable back pack straps...

June 1, 2010

Guitars International wishes to thank our distinguished artists, enthusiastic attedees - from Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maine, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, and Canada - and the administration, faculty and staff of the Cleveland Institute of Music who made our 10th Annual Classical Guitar Weekend such a wonderful artistic and educative success. To access commentary and reviews of this year's recitals, master classes and lectures click here.

May 14, 2010

The tenth annual Classical Guitar Weekend at the Cleveland Institute of Music (Jason Vieaux, CIM Guitar Department Head) will take place Friday, May 21 through Sunday, May 23, 2010 in Cleveland, Ohio U.S.A. Please join this Spring's roster of internationally acclaimed artists: classical guitarists Jason Vieaux, Daniel Lippel, Susana Prieto & Alexis Musurakis of Duo Melis; lutenist Nigel North; soprano Tony Arnold; composers Judah Adashi and Vineet Shende; and Florentine master guitar maker Andrea Tacchi in a concentrated series of recitals, world premiere performances, master classes, lecture presentations and exhibits celebrating art music - solo and ensemble, old and new...

April 9, 2010

Just Arrived: Two wonderful new 2010 German Vazquez Rubio classical guitars: (1) A Hauser I Optima Model with a 20th first string fret and twelve hole tie block (Learn more) and (2) a 640mm short scale Hauser I Model for those players with smaller hands (Learn more). Both fine instruments possess Vazquez Rubio's warm, powerful, focused, well balanced sound, exceptional color palette, comfortable neck contour and exacting string set up.

March 22, 2010:

Just arrived: A very special new Coclea Thucra classical guitar by the great Florentine luthier,
Andrea Tacchi. Tacchi created this magnificent instrument in honor of Classical Guitar Weekend 2010, presented by Guitars International in cooperation with the Cleveland Institute of Music. The stunning visual beauty and intricacy of this musical masterpiece speak for themselves obviously; more to the point, however, one will find its inspired grand concert sound to be nothing short of divine...

March 20, 2010:

Just arrived: A particularly lovely new classical guitar by esteemed Italian luthier and scholar
Luca Waldner. Luca Waldner writes: I believe an instrument maker must among other things study old instruments. This study is important not so much to reproduce instruments that have already been perfectly realized by others and which have lived and continue to live a glorious existence, but
because it is important to recover and understand the sensibility and thought which lay behind these instruments' creation. By engaging in such study an informed and aspiring instrument maker of talent, sensitivity and conviction can maintain, extend and enrich the path begun by others...

March 3, 2010

Just Arrived: A magnificent new 2010 Gary Southwell 1940 Hauser I reproduction. Performed upon by Julian Bream in his "Great Estates Tour" of England, these magnificent concert guitars have been designed, built and refined since 1995 in an ongoing collaboration with Julian Bream. 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...

March 2, 2010

Just Arrived: A spectacular new 2010 Paco (Francisco) Santiago Marin XXXth Anniversario classical guitar. Paco Marin's XXXth Anniversario model is his premiere concert instrument. The classical guitars of Paco Marin are widely admired and sought after for their great projection, clarity, strong round fundamental tones, exceptionally quick response, balance, broad color palette, and easy set up. For these reasons many internationally acclaimed concert artists have chosen to perform on these highly responsive instruments,,,

December 11, 2009

Just Arrived: A new 2009 Joshia de Jonge classical guitar. This magnificent custom concert instrument by this greatly gifted maker combines the finest attributes of the northern European traditional tonal aesthetic with the immediate response and projection of the most innovative contemporary guitars. A work of artistic distinction in every way...

November 12, 2009

Now Available: The New Free 2010 Guitars International Color Brochure. Click on this entry to request your free copy.

November 9, 2009

Just Arrived: Two handcrafted Estudio Model classical guitars - one cedar top, one spruce top - by master guitar maker German Vazquez Rubio (sometimes referred to as G.V. Rubio). These modestly priced musical gems are an exciting alternative to the many laminate and solid body factory production guitars so prevalent in this price range. Indeed, we have found that these meticulously handcrafted solid wood instruments by one of this country's finest most experienced luthiers regularly out perform entry level concert instruments costing substantially more...

October 15, 2009

Just Arrived: A spectacular, very rare, new spruce/cedar double (sandwich) top classical guitar by master German guitar maker Gernot Wagner. Jason Vieaux, Susana Prieto and Alexis Muzurakis of Duo Melis, and Marco Feri are just four of the internationally acclaimed concert artists performing and recording with Gernot Wagner double-top classical guitars. Capable of projecting to the back of the most challenging concert hall, we believe Gernot Wagner's most recent double top guitars to be the most sonically beautiful, most musically flexible, most traditional sounding of the latest generation of double top guitars: lush round clear well balanced sound throughout all registers, smooth creamy tonal transition from note to note, quick response, broad color palette, excellent separation, sustain, depth and density of sound...

September 28, 2009

Just Arrived: An as new 2009 Robert Ruck ced./Ind. composite top classical guitar. Embodying as it does the extended dynamic range, warmth and dark allure of cedar composite top construction without cedar's possible detriments, this innovative concert guitar represents a significant contribution to the art of guitar making in general and to the use of western red cedar for soundboard construction in particular...

September 5, 2009

Just arrived: A gorgeous sounding and looking classical guitar by the immensely gifted young Italian luthier, Daniele Chiesa. Chiesa makes his home in Granada, Spain. His guitars are very special indeed. While the sound of his 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. The result, the Italian and Granada influences, and a great deal of individual talent here make for a profoundly beautiful musical experience for player and listener alike...

June 18, 2009

We are excited to have just received an exceptional new, very rare classical guitar from master guitar maker Geza Burghardt, one of the greatest of the handful of unequivocally great contemporary artist luthiers: Unsurpassed traditional elegant sound, impeccable materials and workmanship,,,

The BAM Hightech 8002 XL Classical Guitar Cases are in stock in all three exterior finishes: Carbon Black, Tweed Grey and Brushed Aluminum. BAM has created an exciting new high-tech hard shell classical guitar travel case which is small, stylish, ultra light (weighs only 6.2 pounds) and very strong...

May 15, 2009

Our new Achim Gropius classical guitar has arrived: German master guitar maker Achim Peter Gropius is one of Europe's most exciting younger makers of individually handmade classical guitars...

We are now offering a chamois Guitar Wrap to help protect your guitar's finish.

May 1, 2009

Bernhard Kresse's new flamed maple/spr.Anton Stauffer Homage classical guitar has arrived: An unusually large and impressive group of international artists perform and record on Kresse's beautiful handcrafted instruments...

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