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Processus de Design - Voir la guitare à travers le temps.

“Inspiration exists,
but it has to find you
working.”
Pablo Picasso
Raga 2 - Bowl-back guitar by Thierry Andre Instruments

À l'intérieur deClara Archtop, 2020 : -Typique -ailes du manche- attaché au bloc du manche. Également visible, un support de micro interne en palissandre laminé, qui maintient le micro suspendu et dégagé de la table d'harmo. 

RAGA 2 build-mold, Thierry Andre Instruments

The Raga 2 sound box is made up of of 22 laminated ribs, assembled on a multifaceted detachable mold.

Raga 2 - Bowl-back guitar by Thierry Andre Instruments
Raga 2 - Bowl-back guitar by Thierry Andre Instruments
Raga 2 - Bowl-back guitar by Thierry Andre Instruments
In the Workshop, Thierry Andre Instruments
Raga 2 by Thierry Andre Instruments

Raga 2 with opalescent silver dust laquer finish.

Basses acoustiques 

À l'intérieur de la caisse de la Maya Bass, on peut voir mon typique laminé -ailes du manche- , un support attaché de son bloc de manche à ses éclisses, au niveau de la taille. Les ailes du cou (selon Steve Klein) offrent une connexion manche-corps stable qui empêche le trop souvent nécessaire neck-reset sur les guitares acoustiques.

Maya-bass-Thierry-Andre-Instruments

L'influence acoustique des -ailes du manche- peut effectivement être entendue. Voici révélée une table d'harmonie véritablement mise en mouvement. 

La stabilité du manche étant désormais présente dans tous les axes, l'énergie des cordes de la guitare est davantage dirigée vers le chevalet.

 

Comme on le voit ci-dessous, ces neck-wings sont présentes dans tous mes instruments acoustiques.

Clara-archtop-Thierry Andre Instruments
Soundboard to the Clara archtop guitar byThierry Andre Instruments

Mandoline Greyhound l'arrière du bol terminé (à gauche), et la Archtop à l'ancienne, assemblage des éclisses.

Multi, Poplar carved back by Thierry Andre
Multi, hollow-body harp guitar by Thierry Andre Instruments

Kouai - Processus de fabrication, détails.

Harp-guitars with sympathetic strings byThierry Andre Instruments

Harp Guitars with sympathetic strings: Multi, Echoes of Time, Multi 2.

View the currently available Multi 3 :  Page   Listing

A focus on the Archtop

The Clara archtop guitar byThierry Andre Instruments

What a beautiful instrument to explore, to contemplate, to play! OMG!

As a guitar maker it is the - standard initiatory challenge - to make an Archtop... And indeed, and in connection with all the culture and research surrounding the instruments of the classical quartet (violin, viola, cello, double bass) - the historic backdrop linked with these instruments, coupled with the unexplored potential surrounding the archtop guitar itself, is truly infinite, a real rabbit hole of the most pleasant to explore, while contemplating with admiration the advances of my contemporaries and predecessors.

Above: The Clara Archtop - acoustic / electric archtop guitar with floating (through the top) humbucker.

Main materials: : Red Cedar, ziricote, black limba, ebony, rosewood, aluminium, dyed sycomore, recon stone. 

In short, we can easily feel small at the sight of making our own contribution to the development of this instrument...But the challenge is exciting, timely, and will be relevant for a very long time to come. As a player you have part of the answers to this great development within you ; We are indeed living in a beautiful period, literally sharing (among luthiers/players) today, the golden era of the guitar.

 

Below:

Latest offset 17' Archtop design in the making. Titled: -BLUEPRINT- ; This soon to be offered production Model will be first presented as part of The Blue Guitars Collection in 2025.   

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