1930s Domingo Esteso and 2000 Eugene Clark Guitars

Steven Dimmick from the SF Guitar Society plays the same piece of music on an Esteso and then a Clark Guitar. In 1999 Eugene had a chance to look closely at this very Esteso guitar and made measurements of it. The guitar belonged to Steve. Eugene was very impressed with the guitar and when I commissioned a guitar from him (getting him out of retirement to build a classical guitar again after laying off of building for over 15 years), he patterned his guitar after the Esteso. When the guitar was done Eugene told me that it was his version of an Esteso with a "V8,." in other words power.
Here Steve plays both guitars.

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