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guitar salon international

A Maple Guitar for Guitar Salon International

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This is Andy Lee from Guitar Salon International. Andy attended the Frankfurter Messe where producers of instruments and accessories meet their suppliers and dealers. Because Andy came all the way from Santa Monica – California, he decided to combine Frankurt with a visit to Amsterdam where we had dinner together in one of my favorite restaurants: Hotel de Goudfazant.

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  • Guitar_Salon_International_Otto_Vowinkel Maple Spruce

I recently sent a maple concert guitar to GSI, with a beautiful bearclaw spruce top, as you can see in the pictures above. The guitar was sold almost immediately, which is good for both GSI and me, but a bit unfortunate for Irina Kulikova. She was planning to record a video with it, as she announces in the instagram post.

I also visited the Frankfurter Messe, just like last year when the video above was made, a short interview with Andy’s GSI colleagues, John Paul Trotter and David Collet. As you can see, already then I talk about how satisfied I am with the use of maple.

The interview above about the cooperation between GSI and me, is part of a longer reportage about GSI visiting the Frankfurter Messe in 2018. You can view this reportage here in full.

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Tara Stewart

tara stewart photographer

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.

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Guitar Salon International

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

Guitar Salon International

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

 

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David Collet

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.

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JohnPaul and David

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.

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work in progress

This is the back side of a concert guitar I am working on right now. As soon as I finish it I will send it to Guitar Salon International, my USA dealer and largest dealer of classical and flamenco guitars in the world. I mailed them some pictures of this work in progress and which they put on their blog.

 

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Scott Wolf

Guitar Salon International is my USA dealer. They put a small series on you tube of Scott Wolf playing the same piece on a ‘bunch of guitars’.  I think he does a very good job.

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