Guitar maker Amsterdam
This is Stefan Gerritsen. He is a left-handed guitar player and member of Verso, a very nice and successful duo with an unusual line up: pan flute and guitar. Some people think that left handed players play a ‘normal’ guitar, holding it the other way round. That is not the case. The bracing of a guitar with a bass and a treble part, the thickness of the top and the placing of the bridge are different. A left handed guitar is more or less built ‘the other way round’.
Otto Vowinkel is a household name in the classical guitar world; a renowned luthier with customers all over the world.
His instruments are physically light, easy to play, ultra-responsive and very powerful. His guitars have outstanding tonal qualities, evenness in sound colour and a perfect intonation.
Otto blogs about making guitars, guitarists who play his instruments, festivals he visits and ‘his’ guitar series Meesters op de Gitaar. He also writes about guitar maintenance.