The Vienna
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FINE ARCHTOP GUITARS
Theo Scharpach
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“Theo was born close to Vienna, Austria and is still proud to have the Austrian nationality although he moved to the Netherlands at an early age however been raised within the Austrian culture. His father was a watchmaker and he graduated with a diploma of Arts and later got a diploma in restoration of antique furniture. He actually knew I wanted to be a guitarmaker when he did the course of restoration.
Now he has been a guitarmaker for close to 40 years and has worked for some famous clients. (Al di Meola, Steve Howe, Chieli Minucci, Randy Bachman, Ahmet Kanneci , Camillo Sauvalle, Andreas Dombert and some famous collectors like Scott Chinery etc.)
He started building classical guitars and specialised in custom made guitars and later added the Archtop jazz guitar as it attracted my attention and passion.
All of his guitars are exclusively handmade. He wants to offer a guitar my guitar with many tonal colours, great dynamic range and yet to have an intimacy as I feel that is the true sound of the instrument called guitar."
VIENNA Archtop
The Vienna is made for the most passionate Archtop lover, player and collector. The architectural purity of the design gives the guitar a clean shape that presents the essence of the sound. All design details enhance the beauty and the basic shape of the guitar. All the proportions are perfectly balanced creating a very dynamic powerful elegance. Yet this is done without any extrovert features that would distract the eye. The Vienna uses exclusive unique hardware like hand-engraved tuning covers and tailpiece, solid silver tuning knobs and all fine gold-plated. It needs no saying that the woods used are out of old stock. Like out of the former old stock of Artur Lang.
Scharpach
Vienna
The Vienna is made for the most passionate Archtop lover, player and collector. The architectural purity of the design gives the guitar a clean shape that presents the essence of the sound. All design details enhance the beauty and the basic shape of the guitar. All the proportions are perfectly balanced creating a very dynamic powerful elegance. Yet this is done without any extrovert features that would distract the eye. The Vienna uses exclusive unique hardware like hand-engraved tuning covers and tailpiece, solid silver tuning knobs and all fine gold-plated. It needs no saying that the woods used are out of old stock. Like out of the former old stock of Artur Lang.
The Master Stochello Rosenberg playing the Sharpach Vienna
Joost Zoeteman and Wolf Martini play “Buy a Guitar” a Bossa Nova written by W. Martini.
It is always a great pleasure to be invited for some nice projects. Joost Zoeteman and Wolf Martini are two well-known Dutch Jazz players that I know for quite some time. We often discussed the possibility to do some things together and finally it worked out. They recorded three songs at the concert location called ”de Verzameling” in Westervoort. I wish to thank Marie-Jose and Jan van Hekke for their kindness during the recording session by opening the doors of the Concert stage for us. Joost Zoeteman and Wolf Martini play the Vienna Archtop and a Flamenco guitar that is actually owned by Al di Meola but happened to be available due to Corona.
De Verzameling: http://www.deverzameling.nl