History

If Torres defined the classical guitar of the nineteenth century, one of the makers who most influenced the concert guitar of the late twentieth was an Australian working far from…

For most of its history the Spanish guitar had a spruce top. Torres used spruce, his followers used spruce, and the great guitars of the early twentieth century were spruce.…

Every classical guitar built today, including ours, owes something to a carpenter from Almería. Antonio de Torres Jurado was born in 1817 near Almería and died there in 1892. In…