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Artists & Sounds

Featured artist
Thomas Riedel
Musician, author, singer, performer and bon vivant
from Barleben near Magdeburg plays
a SPEZIAL IV64 in wengé / spruce as well as
a “La Onda” in Indian rosewood / spruce
Artists Gallery
A selection of our satisfied customers – national and international.

Philipp Seidel
Cottbus, Germany
„La Onda“, cedar

Borche Naumoski
Skopje, North Macedonia
SPEZIAL V, bubinga / cedar

Prof. Zhi Chen
Beijing, China
with Yameng Wang and Mario Gropp

Ahmed El-Salamouny
Munich, Germany
SPEZIAL IV, cedar
7-string SPEZIAL IV, cedar

Miriam Fernández
Argentina / Switzerland
SPEZIAL III, cedar
13-course theorbo

Qing He
Tianjin, China
Romantic guitar
8-course renaissance lute
13-course baroque lute
SPEZIAL, cedar

Günter Geurts
Essen, Germany
SPEZIAL SE-C II, cocobolo / cedar

Quartet China
China
Yameng Wang, Meng Su
Shanshan Chen, Jie Li
4x SPEZIAL, spruce 63 scale, cedar
Jie Li
China
SPEZIAL

Napoleão Costa-Lima
Brazil
SPEZIAL II, padouc / spruce, oval
SPEZIAL III, cedar

Prof. Antonio Grande
Naples, Italy
R-model, cedar
Baroque guitar 6-course

Prof. Raffaele Carpino
Caserta, Italy
SPEZIAL III, sycamore maple / spruce

Klaus Schindler
Germany
Concert model, sycamore maple / spruce
SPEZIAL IV, cedar

Arnaud Partcham
Nice, France
SPEZIAL IV, cedar

Claudio Pezzella
Sant’Agnello di Sorrento, Italy
7-string SPEZIAL V, maple / spruce

Kihyuk Yang
Seoul, Korea
with his six Gropp guitars (f.l.t.r.)
SPEZIAL V, Madagascar rosewood / cedar; Mod. Torres “La Leona” 1856, cypress / spruce; Mod. Staufer 1815, maple / spruce; French Romantic model ca. 1820; Mod. Torres 1892, bird’s eye maple / spruce; Weissgerber model, oak / spruce

Roberto Limón
Mexico
SPEZIAL SE-C II, Madagascar rosewood / spruce 64 scale

Mario Barbuti
with Armin Gropp
Cava de Tirreni, Italy
Baroque guitar 6-course

Martin Ackerman
Argentina / France
SPEZIAL IV, cedar
8-string “La Onda 64“, spruce

Yameng Wang, Meng Su
China
2x SPEZIAL

Duo Appassionato
Hanau, Germany
Christina Gutgesell
SPEZIAL SE-C II64,
Indian rosewood 64 scale
Christian Gutgesell
SPEZIAL SE-C II, padouc / spruce
“La Onda”, Indian rosewood / spruce

Thomas Riedel
Magdeburg, Germany
(Photo: Sylvia Pudel)
SPEZIAL IV64, wengé / spruce
“La Onda”, Indian rosewood / spruce

Martin Steuber
Leipzig, Germany
SPEZIAL II, wengé / spruce

Fabian Hinsche
Gütersloh, Germany
SPEZIAL SE-C II, oak / spruce

Annette Schneider
Zwickau, Germany
SPEZIAL SE-C II64,
Madagascar rosewood / spruce

Carlo Duvivié
Vienna, Austria
SPEZIAL SE-C II, maple / spruce

Eugen Beidinger
Göttingen, Germany
SPEZIAL SE-C II,
Indian rosewood / cedar

Stephen Kai Leung Chau
Hong Kong
SPEZIAL SE-C II, cedar

Mauricio Carrasco
Chile / Australia
SPEZIAL III, cedar
Staufer Romantic model