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Yes you did ,Chris, and I read it too but it evaporated. They do have a line of steel strings, OM, concert dreadnought etc... But they do seem to focus on nylon string guitars. Really cool company overall it feels like.
Andy, the embedded video on their website doesn't work but several come up when searching the product name. Several sound extremely trebley but this guy makes it sound decent
James Joyce on guitar - Zurich, 1915.
Instrument probably dates back to 19th century. Most likely made in Saxony or Vienna rather than Mirecourt apparently.
For the friends of old german archtops:
... and last but not least, with many many interesting links:
Hi everyone,
Found this one à week ago. Made in Bulgaria.
Paid 15$ can’t go wrong.
Great find, @guitarmike . Since you paid so little for it, you should pop over to @Stankevicius to get a nice tailpiece insert. You can find some pics on this old forum post.
You're right there, can't go wrong at that price.
That is another Bulgarian Kremona guitar, called the 'хемус' which means Hemus which apparently comes from Haemus, the ancient Roman name for the Balkan mountains.
All of the ones I have seen used nylon strings and a fixed bridge and no tailpiece. Even so, as long as you stick to fairly light gauge it might work ok with steels; how does it sound compared to a regular dreadnought or SelMac guitar?
Nice find.
When I found it it had regular steel strings on it. It is definitely made for nylon strings though.
So I installed a set of Argentine ( 010. to. 045 ) and I installed a Gypsy style tailpiece after re-gluing the bridge to the top.
So this way the tension will not try to pull the bridge from the top.
It has a ladder bracing and it sound pretty pretty good.
This reminds me of the old Höfner Vienna at our school (the one with the spider inside and the Thomastik Infeld strings outside):
https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/17930/vintage-hoefner-unusual-headstock-and-rosette
@guitarmike I love how you added that clamp just before the bridge.
Looking for a plant stand to overwinter the balcony plants in the room, I went to a local second hand shop. Didn't find what I was looking for, but stumbled over this instrument:
A quick research showed, that Juan Estruch Rosell (1880 - 1970) and his son Joan Estruch Pipó (? - 1989) were luthiers from Barcelona https://www.luthiers.es/.
In the description of another Estruch instrument https://www.vintage-guitar-world.com/shop/juan-estruch-yellow-label-1967/ I found the following text:
Juan Estruch is one of the venerable luthiers in Spain. Well known among the musicians are the guitars like this one from the “yellow label” period. They have a deep and rich sound and are appreciated by musicians and collectors alike.
They are also known through Chet Atkins. When asked shortly before his death which of his hundreds of guitars he most preferred, he unhesitatingly chose his 1964 Juan Estruch. In fact, this was the guitar that Atkins played daily and on which he made many of his “basement recordings” that were found after his death.