Achim-Peter Gropius 2023 – Germany

Here is an amazing guitar that will please the ones looking for a beautiful traditional sound but with the dynamic of the new doubletops.

Achim Gropius is an experienced guitar maker, he is 56 and made more than 300 guitars. He specializes in double-top guitars with a “mixed” double top (outside Cedar, inside spruce). The result is a typical Cedar guitar with great dynamic range but not as dull as many other Cedar doubletop instruments. Last but not least the playability and the craftmanship are top-notch.

Here are the spec of this 2023 guitar:

Here are a small bio of Achim : Achim-Peter Gropius was born on February 25th 1967 in Berlin were he received his first guitar lessons at the age of nine. After finishing secondary school, he decided on an apprenticeship as a guitar maker rather than studying guitar. He began training as a guitar maker in 1991 and 1994 at the violin making school in Mittenwald, receiving his diploma in 1994. He then went on to work at the workshop of Luthier Max Strohmer in Nuremberg. In December 1994 he moved to Reutlingen where he worked for a master violin-maker, restoring instruments of the violin family. During this time he continued developing his own instruments. In August 1996 he opened his own workshop in Reutlingen.