Lutherie Demystified Ep. 8 | Perspectives: The Secret to the Masters' Sound Revealed

Lutherie Demystified is a video series hosted by Garrett Lee that explores the world of classical guitar building--from techniques and theory to commentary and perspectives about the instruments, players and lutherie profession.

[martinbrounstein]

For the first few minutes, you had me!

[NeverTalkToCops]

Builders known for the sound of their guitars may ( I'm just guessing) do the following:
1. Amass a large inventory of soundboards to hold until environmentally stable, then select based on their experience with stiffness, resonance response, magic "other " stuff.
2. Never build a guitar that others would deem eminently buildable by bracing tricks.

[davidlang]

The finest guitars have the most beautiful rosettes. Therefore, the best sound is because of beautiful rosettes😮

[stevelaferney]

I think you should add pre-selected, seasoned as it were, keratin with just the right touch of cat and dog fur to the soundhole of your new guitars plus add some to each one that comes in for repair. It will help to set your work out from all the rest. It can give your players that certain edge over the others. You’ll be even more in demand, can raise your rates and you’ll become part of guitar history.!
BTW - Nice guitars. Great sound.

[BobStCyr]

What - you mean there is no holy grail!! Damn I just need to keep working, and working. Also true - I have heard awesome sounding guitars built with seemingly quite different build philosophies, and some that did not seem to have very stellar materials.

[MalenyFieldsForever]

I had a sneaking suspicion where this was heading 😊

[jensthunbo]

Thought it would be dried sweat from the players! A well known contribution to guitar sound…

[nsdpdf]

As soon as you listed K9, feline and human I looked at the date and knew.

[jimtosone]

I knew it was Beta-keratin all along. That's why those guitars sing like a bird.