Martin Blackwell spruce /Madagascar No. 242 2024 – Canada

Simply one of the best double-tops!

We are proud to introduce in Europe this young master of double-tops. Among the young and talented classical guitar makers from Canada, Martin Blackwell is offering classical guitars with a consistent standard of excellence, found in their depth of tone, balance, and playability. His double-tops are very responsive and powerful opening up a great dynamic range with excellent sustain and wonderful evenness and separation.
Martin Blackwell do not produce double-tops but wonderful classical guitars which happen to be double-tops. When we first contact Martin, here is what he said on this classical guitar making: “my philosophy is to use the double-top technology to basically make a really great traditional sounding guitar. A classical guitar with a more powerful sound, more resonance, more presence. A more complete classical guitar which is a full concert guitar but which also has the subtlety to sound great in the living room as well. I don’t want to get away from the beauty of the traditional tonality. Because of this I know there are other double-tops and lattice classical guitars which are louder than what I am building.  The best response which I get consistently from good players is that the guitar just sounds like a really good classical guitar and not necessarily a double top.”

Here are the concert players from all generation playing with Martin Blackwell’s guitars among which numerous GFA winners : Leonela alejandro, Gabriel Bianco, Gérard Abiton, Rene Izquierdo, Adam Holzman, Marc Teicholz, Celso Machado, Tariq Harb, Drew Henderson, Ibison Duo, Dragos Ilie,…

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