Double Top Classical Guitars, Sandwich Top Guitar, Composite Top Classical Guitar

Offered here is a magnificent sounding, extremely rare, very powerful spruce/cedar composite double top classical guitar by the great German master, Gernot Wagner, the inventor of the revolutioary Nomex-double-top construction theory (first employed and popularized by his friend and colleague, Matthias Dammann). Jason Vieaux, Marco Feri and Susana Prieto and Alexis Muzurakis of Duo Melis are just four of the internationally acclaimed concert artists performing and recording with Gernot Wagner sandwich top classical guitars. View a video of guitarist Jason Vieaux performing on his spruce/cedar double top Wagner guitar. View videos and hear audio clips of Duo Melis performing on their cedar/cedar Gernot Wagner composite top classical guitars.

Capable of projecting to the back of the most challenging concert hall, we believe Gernot Wagner's most recent double top guitars to be the most sonically beautiful, most musically flexible, most natural sounding of the latest generation of double top guitars: lush round clear well balanced sound throughout all registers, smooth creamy tonal transition from note to note, quick response, broad color palette, excellent separation, sustain, depth and density of sound.

In sum, these unique instruments represent a major contribution to refined music making on the guitar and to the art of lutherie in general. No wonder one of our delighted customers proclaimed about his new Wagner, "I believe I have found the golden fleece of concert guitars." These premium concert instruments are an excellent choice for concerto and related ensemble work where electronic amplification is either artistically undesirable or impracticable. With a waiting list of many years in Europe and an output of less than ten guitars a year, Guitars International is privileged on rare occasion to offer to our customers a new example of this consummate artist's work.

Materials: Very old, dark master grade CSA sides and back, spr./Nomex/ced. double top soundboard, Rodgers L201 precision tuning machine heads (the finest in the world) with kidney shaped ebony buttons, perfectly executed V graft head to neck joint, moderately elevated fingerboard, spectacular French polish of shellac finish with gorgeous optic depth, exceptional materials throughout, impeccable workmanship - among the very finest in the world, 650mm string length, Galli Genius Titanio Strings, hardshell case.