New Constantin Dumitriu Spruce Top Concert Classical Guitar

The guitar being demoed here by a friend of mine, Patrick Rafferty, was made from Spruce-Indian Rosewood by Constantin Dumitriu. Additional information on the guitar is available at www.reverieclassicalguitars.com

Constantin Dumitriu is a fantastic Romanian luthier that has some of the leading concert guitarists performing on his instruments. He is one of my favorite builders. Dumitriu started out playing classical guitar, but in his early 20s, he encountered one of Pujols former students named Eduard Pamfil who helped guide Dumitriu towards building. In 2002, Dumitriu met a student of Antonio Marin Montero in Sweden named Alejandro van der Horst. Van der Horst explained all of the steps in building a guitar in the Granada style and, as Dumitriu puts it, this was the moment when I was practically born as a guitar maker. After the meeting with van der Horst, he spent the next year studying the principles of the Granada style and then he started building a new concept, which broke away from traditional construction tradition. As Dumitriu explains, I used only wood, but with the structure of the soundboard modified and much closer to the sound system of the guitar. The basic idea is that the natural structure of the wood (soundboard) has nothing to do with the sound system of the guitar. Dumitrius unique style was recognized on an international level in 2005, when he was asked to give first prize in different International Festivals (Sinaia-Romania, Velbert-Germany, Iserlohn-Germany). Several leading artists play his guitars Hubert Kaeppel (Germany), Frank Gerstmeier (Germany), Thomas Kirchoff (Germany) and many others from Europe.


I am very pleased to be the exclusive distributor of Constantin Dumitriu's guitars in the United States.

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