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Ricardo -> RE: Gerardo Nuñez Guitar (Jul. 11 2023 13:18:08)
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ORIGINAL: Echi
It’s a lovely Andres Marvi, a German guitar builder based in a small town close to Granada.
The guitar in the video is still the old model (you can say it by the headstock): probably cedar and rosewood.
Ricardo said he played that guitar if I’m not wrong.
Yes that is right. The same maker he used in the Encuentro video (that one spruce, here is Cedar). To put it back into some relevance here in Luthier stuff, Marvi explained to us back in 2004 how his innovation was to build the neck robustly UNDER the soundboard (neck continues under the ebony and stops at the soundhole mouth), which he believed supported the high treble notes above 12th fret. To me I did not notice a difference, and it certainly made the guitar heavier than average. I believe he stopped doing this innovation with this particular model, and I admit also the sound of this Cedar guitar is much better than the old spruce one, so as a builder he has certainly improved. The guitar is not particularly loud or bright or anything, but Gerardo likes the sound so to each their own. I also remember he had a Reyes that he waited years for and brought both to class in 2004, and it did not sound so hot either. He sold that guitar.
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