Historical Guitars
Many of the old , historically important guitars of the early 19th century are now considered important museum pieces, so are not available for performance by today’s musicians. In order to be playable, these historic instruments would need to be rebuilt, and this would be unacceptable to any museum.
This limitation gives the contemporary guitarmaker a unique opportunity, to build copies according to the specifications of the old masters. In my workshop I have built instruments that in construction and sound are close to the instruments of the old Spanish , Italian, French and Viennese masters. And I can modify the construction details, such as bridge saddle and fingerboard width, tuners etc., to suit the modern classical player.
Model by Joséf Pagés / Cadiz , 1812
Original Instrument: The original model of this guitar comes from the former collection of Peter Harlan , Mark Neukirchen and was originally 6-courses, a late baroque guitar.
My „Pagés“ guitar is made in various woods , such as cypress , rosewood and maple. The top is made of seasoned mountain spruce.
Neck: Spanish Cedar
Scale length: 63,5 cm
Model by Louis Panormo / London, 1829
Original instrument from the private collection of Ulrich Wedemeier .
Unique features of Joséf Pagés guitar can be seen on the plantilla (contour) of this instrument, which was later developed by Panormo. The 1829 Panormo has, for that time, very large body dimensions (length 45.8 cm / width 31.6 cm).
Top: mountain spruce
Back / sides: rosewood , flamed sycamore, cypress
Neck: Cedar
Scale length: 63,5 cm
Model by René Lacote / Paris , 1833
Original instrument from the private collection of Ulrich Wedemeier . This instrument has an unusually large scale length of 65 cm.
Top: german spruce
Back / sides: flamed maple , other woods available upon request
Neck: alder, maple , mahogany
Scale length: 64 cm
Model by Georg Stauffer / Vienna
Original instrument: Deutsches Museum, Munich , musical instrument collection.
Top: mountain spruce
Back / sides: flamed maple
Neck: alder
Scale length: 64 cm
