We went this time to the workshop of the very nice Syrian guitar maker Ahmad Alhajibrahim. He has been living in Granada for more than 20 years. And it was here that he tells us he discovered his two new loves. The city and the guitar.
Now he has his own guitar workshop in Granada where he has started to develop little by little a guitar with his own personality and where he develops his passion for the instrument and for guitar making.

In this video, we are going to see a quality that a guitar should have. The sound balance of all the notes in all the registers of the guitar. Also, we talk about the famous Wolf Notes that can appear on a guitar. Wolf notes are one of the biggest headaches for guitar makers.
At the end of the video, we compare three guitars. Luciano Lovadina 2022, Antonio Marín Montero 1973, and a Chinese Factory Guitar.

All you need to know about perhaps the most important part of the guitar that defines its sound. Guitar maker Paula Lazzarini -First Prize Granada International Guitar Making Competition- tells us all we need to know about it.

You see the title of this video and probably the first question that comes to your mind is: What is the meaning of it? Are not the guitars that professional guitarists use to play concerts high-quality guitars? We think a distinction can be made. This video explains this in detail.

A few days ago we had the chance to visit the Centro de Documentación Musical de Andalucía in Granada to see and play the Antonio de Torres guitar that this Music Centre has in its possession since 2004.

Madera went to Oscar Muñoz's guitar workshop in Granada to interview him and ask him to tell us about how the development of a guitar maker is and the process to find the right path, his way of making guitars, his different models, the Granada traditional one and also the one he is making now with the lattice system. He also explains us the courses to learn how to make guitars that he does in his workshop to his students.

The now 90-year-old master still goes to his workshop from Monday to Friday, morning and afternoon, and it is impressive to see how extraordinarily healthy he is. We wish him many more years between us and wish to keep honoring us with his wonderful personality, knowledge, generosity, talent, incredible work, and his so precious friendship.

It is also very nice to see how the whole city and all of us without exception who have had the privilege of knowing him we love him very much, admire him and respect him as the legend that he became in the world of the great guitar makers of history.

We took these photos in his workshop in Granada in 2015 but they were never published.
So, taking advantage of this important date in the maestro's life, we publish them now.

In these photos you can also see his nephew Jose Marín Plazuelo, also one of the most important guitar makers in Spain today, who has been working with the master in the same workshop since 1974, making the same guitars as Antonio with the same system (Bouchet/Marin system) and with the same quality as his uncle.

There are many interesting details that can be seen and analyzed in these photos.
One of these interesting details can be found in the photos where Alberto Cuellar (MADERA founder and Director) is sitting with the maestro talking, Alberto is holding a flamenco guitar by Antonio Marín made in 1969 and the maestro is holding in his hands also a flamenco guitar made by him in 2015. 46 years difference between the two.

Impressive to see that the fountain of guitar makers that emanates from the city of Granada has not dried up. Year after year young people continues to emerge who dedicate all their time and energy to learning this fascinating job with such a long tradition in the city.

An example of this is Juan Fregenal, at only 27 years of age and currently, one of the youngest guitar maker in the city is already showing the talent necessary to build this kind of quality classical guitar.