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Estevan -> RE: yet another RIP post... (Aug. 22 2020 17:46:37)
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Gary Southwell and Brian Cohen have each made a few bench copies of the 1940 Hauser, in collaboration with Bream.
Brian Cohen made eight guitars for Bream, as well as doing repairs and restoration work.
There's a very interesting interview in which he describes Julian's astonishing sensitivity to the fine details of a guitar's construction and their effect on the pulsación.
The link to the article is below, but here's the main part:
"I learned a lot from Bream in the sense that he had vast experience of playing all sorts of guitars,"[...] "Most guitarists are completely unaware. They just play the guitar, and if the frets don't buzz that's alright. But Bream is way beyond that. He's the only person I've known who could play a guitar and he wouldn't look at it, but he'd say, 'You've got two bars on the right of the bridge haven't you, Brian?' [referring to the instrument's internal construction]. He could feel it through his fingers, which I've never known anybody else do."
With the orginal Hauser guitar, Bream wanted Cohen to make minute adjustments to the action (ie the height of the strings above the frets). "It's a huge job," says Cohen. "I had to take all the frets out, remove the fingerboard, just skim a bit off the fingerboard and then re-fret it. I did this about eight times. There was one time when we adjusted the bridge saddle by 1,000th of an inch. I was getting a bit tired of this to be honest, so I thought to save myself time I'll just make it a 2,000th or one-and-a-half thousandth. Bream must have played the guitar for about 10 minutes and he said, 'You know Brian, I think you've gone one and a half here, this isn't the 1,000th I asked for.' And of course he was right." And this without even measuring it with the digital micrometer that the demanding Bream carried around with him.
https://theartsdesk.com/we-made-it/we-made-it-guitar-maker-brian-cohen
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