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Minsu Yu

23 May 2017 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Minsu Yu, the owner of Classical Guitar Studio Partita, in Seoul, South-Korea. Last March he came all the way to Europe, to meet and greet guitar makers he represents, including me. Before he came to Amsterdam he spent more than a week in Italy and after all the pasta he felt like some noodles. The first night we took him to a restaurant called Korea, which didn’t happen to be the perfect choice… Luckily Minsu Yu stayed a few more days so we could make up for it.

Minsu Yu and I got to know each other thanks to the South Korean guitarist Ricardin Hwang about whom I wrote earlier. Minsu, besides owing the most important guitar shop of South-Korea, turned out to be a very good guitar player.

Otto Vowinkel en Minsu Yu op het terras van Café de Prins in Amsterdam

Tara Stewart

2 February 2017 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Tara Stewart taking a picture. Tara is flamenco aficionado, professional filmer and video editor. She shoots and edits all video’s for Guitar Salon International, my dealer in the USA.

A couple of weeks ago Tara came to Amsterdam for a holiday and brought her camera. She visited my workshop where I happened to be working on a new guitar for GSI! She took pictures and filmed and the beautiful result can be seen in GSI’s blog post Coming soon Otto Vowinkel.

While she was busy working, her boyfriend, Los Angelos Guitar Quartet member John Dearman, tried a new ceder top.

Guitar Salon International

25 May 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is a new cedar top I made for Guitar Salon International, my dealer in the USA.

Check out their website for the beautiful pictures taken of the instrument and it’s details.

Classical Guitar Studio Partita

11 April 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is guitarist Jongho Park performing the introduction of Sor’s opus 9, better known as the Mozart variations. The video is made by Classical Guitar Studio Partita, run by Minsu Yoo, my dealer in South Korea. Jongho Park is playing a concert guitar with a spruce top which I recently sent to South Korea.

Allemande BWV 996

21 March 2016 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Drew Henderson performing Allemande BWV 996 by J.S. Bach. The Allemande consists of two parts, both repeated with ornaments. This makes four parts in one piece which in this video are used to compare four different guitars, built by four different makers.

In order of ‘appearance’ you hear instruments by Douglass Scott, Mathew Rubendall and James White. From 2:05 you can listen to a cedar top 2A guitar by me.

Listen and judge yourself. The 2A guitar from this video can be bought at the Canadian store Grand Salon the Guitare where the video was recorded. You can order a 2A guitar with one of my dealers or directly with me.

Michael Luo

23 July 2015 By Otto Vowinkel 1 Comment

This is Michael Luo. He is my Taiwanese dealer. Every year he organizes a guitar festival, together with guitarist Alfredo Huang. This year I was invited to come and give a lecture. Besides concerts, lectures and lessons, the festival also provides a consult with me, so guitarists can have their instruments adjusted.

Guitarras de Luthier

7 May 2015 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Miguel Angel Cano, looking at my little present for buyers of my instruments, a wooden string winder. Miguel is the owner of Guitarras de Luthier a guitar shop in Madrid which is situated right next to the Conservatory. Miguel started selling my instruments in 2013 but we had never met. Until last week.

David Collet

31 July 2014 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This David Collet. He is President at Guitar Salon International and since twenty years, my official dealer in the USA. He stopped by with his wife after a visit to Germany. I showed them around in Amsterdam and after that we had dinner at Hotel De Goudfazant, one of my favorite restaurants in Amsterdam.

JohnPaul and David

31 March 2014 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

These are JohnPaul Trotter and David Collet from Guitar Salon International (GSI), my longtime USA dealer. We met at the Musikmesse in Frankfurt where we finished a busy day with a cold German beer. I just sent a new guitar to GSI. If you want you can see it here.

Casa Luthier Barcelona

23 December 2013 By Otto Vowinkel Leave a Comment

This is Joan Rigual in Casa Luthier, one of the most beautiful classical and flamenco guitar shops.

Alicia Alcay and Joan Rigual started Casa Luthier in 1979. A tiny shop with student and concert guitars made by the best Spanish builders. I was very honored when, begin nineties, they started selling my guitars as well. In 1997 they moved the shop towards its current location, a large building in the same street. They celebrated the opening with a big party for all the builders they work with. Ten years later they celebrated their jubileum the same way.

Alicia and her husband, the Icelandic guitarist Arnaldur Arnarson are still the owners of the shop. In the mean time Alicia started a music school as well as a dance school. Joan Rigual still manages the shop, together with his employees. Besides guitars you can also find a great collection of sheet music. Sometimes they organize concerts.