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Casa Luthier Barcelona

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

juan rigual otto vowinkel casa luthier

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.

 

Filed Under: blogpost, dealers Tagged With: alicia alcay, arnaldur arnarson, barcelona, casa luthier, juan rigual

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.

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