News - Oct - 2008

The YZ traditional spanish guitar project

The YZ project is a dream come true for me. why ? here's the story:
Eight years ago i went to a guitar festival in Tel Aviv, to hear Yoram Zerbib playing. His playing and musicality was incredible.                                           

At that time I've lived in Mexico and decided to invite him over to play a concert in Bellas Artes and Ensenada. At that point i learned that Yoram is a perfectionist. I do not know many guitar players that own two different Flettas, and a Friedrisch and a Munch. He is not a collcetor! He is a performing artist! Every time I visit him, it's a musical
celebration. As a builder, i felt that Yoram has a deep understanding of what a traditional guitar should be and sound. with his resume of truly playing around the world, graduating the ecole normale de
musice de paris, winning numerous first prizes in competitions, and being a key teacher in the classical guitar department of Jerusalem's music academy, I've always dreamed of him playing one of my guitars...
A year ago, we lift the envelope, and started a very special journey together.

Yoram commissioned four classical Spanish traditional guitars, to his exact specifications. sound, materials, neck size and many many more details. The only problems we had was deciding which soundboard to use. Eventually, there would be no guess work. We decided to build one guitar of cedar- 93 , on of German spruce-77, one of redwood-91 , and one of Sitka spruce-77. Back and sides, as always - made of Brazillian rosewood from my private collection. its important for all of  you to know, Yoram does not have in mind to keep all four guitars for himself. he's a man of a vision and his intention is to create the ultimate traditional guitar, in his eyes and ears. And to offer it to his students and  whoever is interested.
 

You are invited to join us in this uniqe journey, which will unfold
along the months with more pictures, stories and videos.

Wish to own a YZ ?  The dream is not out of your grasp.
The project starts at 5,600 US $ , and not for long.