Posts Tagged ‘bouchet’
Video – John Weissenrieder ‘Bouchet’
Guitarist Joseaugusto Mejia stopped by the shop this week and JohnPaul recorded him playing the new John Weissenrieder ‘Bouchet’ we just got in. Here’s Joseaugusto playing Satie’s ‘Gnossienne No.1′.
After JohnPaul talked to John Weissenrieder for a while David Collett, who has known John’s guitars for years, sat down to grill John some more, and here is that interview. They mention ‘Tacchi’ quite a bit, and that’s luthier Andrea Tacchi, with whom John apprenticed when he first moved to Italy.
John Weissenrieder is an American luthier living in Florence, Italy, who has made a name for himself making exquisite copies of guitars by the old masters including Garcia, Simplicio and Bouchet. John was in town this week with his family, and he stopped by the shop to say hi, so we took the opportunity to do an informal interview. In parts 1 and 2 he talks with JohnPaul Trotter, and in parts 3 and 4 he talks with David Collett.
We at GSI are nearing completion of a project archiving audio snapshots of some of the historic, rare guitars that have passed through our doors. We decided that this would best be accomplished by working with a brilliant guitarist, who would perform musical pieces that were individually selected for pairing to a respective instrument, in a manner that that would best exploit and demonstrate the unique tonal qualities of each guitar.
The result was a collaboration between GSI and guitarist Marc Teicholz that led to our forthcoming CD entitled ‘Valseana,’ which includes 18 waltzes played on 18 master instruments, including 2 Torres, 2 Hauser I, Hauser II, Garcia, Santos, Esteso, Fleta, 2 Rodriguez, Barbero, Hernandez y Aguado, Bouchet, Friederich, Rubio, Blochinger, and Romero Jr. Click the image to continue and to hear some samples.
Here’s part 4 of our interview with French luthier,Dominique Field, picking up where we had left off as Field tells us about what Bouchet had to say about his investigations into building the guitar with the sound he wanted.
In part three Dominique Field tells us how he got his start (have I mentioned that they’re all frustrated guitarists?) and how he got some much needed help from Daniel Friederich.
While on a recent trip to France, David Collett sat down with French luthier Dominique Field to discuss the history and future of French guitar making. Here’s part 1 of that interview, in which Field gives us a brief overview of the history that led to the current generations of French luthiers.
