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Achim-Peter Gropius spruce DT 2024 – Germany
Here is a spruce/nomex/spruce double top from the German builder Achim Peter Gropius. Achim has comprehensive know-how in double-top building. His double tops use nomex and spruce inside and outside. The spruce combination offers more complexity to the sound. As a result, the sound is traditional, with an amazing string separation and a warm tone. The playability is amazing!
Here is an amazing guitar that will please those 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 but builds as well traditional braced guitars. The result is a typical spruce guitar with great dynamic range with a soft and complex tone. Last but not least the playability and the craftmanship are top-notch.
Here are the spec of this 2024 guitar:
- Spruce outside, Nomex for the inner core and spruce inside
- Indian rosewood rosewood for the back and sides
- the sides are doubled
- Mahogany neck reinforced with Carbon-rods
- Alessi tuning machine
- 65 cm /52 mm
- lightly curved bridge
- French Polish
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.
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Previously sold classical guitars from the luthier Achim-Peter Gropius
| String length | 65 |
|---|---|
| Back and sides | Indian rosewood |
| Neck | mahogany |
| Tuners | Alessi tuners |
| Top | Spruce/nomex/spruce |
| Fingerboard | Ebony |