Spohn baritone guitar build 2018

[jmagill]

Beautiful guitar.

Here's a friendly suggestion regarding the studio photos:

If you use a black background, direct front and back shots of an instrument with black binding make that binding disappear. You can then only see it in angled shots.

Perhaps a neutral grey background will serve better to show off all the guitar's features.

[Max Spohn]

Originally Posted by jmagill

Beautiful guitar.

Here's a friendly suggestion regarding the studio photos:

If you use a black background, direct front and back shots of an instrument with black binding make that binding disappear. You can then only see it in angled shots.

Perhaps a neutral grey background will serve better to show off all the guitar's features.

Thank you!

Also thank you for your feedback. Though I am still a big fan of the black background. I think that the reflections on the black bindings are enough to set them off on the front and back shots. The black background is in my opinion the best to show the beauty of the wood.

[David Wren]

What a stunning instrument Max ... both looks and sound ... kudos!

[nobo]

Originally Posted by colins

Very thoughtful and interesting review Don. I can really relate to it after receiving my own baritone some time ago. Great that you are gigging with it already and that the audience appreciates it as well.

May you have many happy and exciting hours with your wonderful new guitar!

Exactly what Col said! This has been a really great thread - fantastic guitar, photos, soundclips (lovely playing BTW), and an insightful review - which very much echoes my own experiences of baritone playing.

On which note (if you'll excuse the pun), I had an intriguing experience a few months back: I played a semi-baritone (something like 26 - 26 3/4) Schwartz Pinnacle, tuned something like C# to C# (from memory) with light strings on. It was an absolutely fabulous sounding instrument. But playing familiar repetoire in that tuning was odd to say the least! Despite having played baritones in a variety of tunings for a decade or so, the relative tuning was always a fourth or fifth below where they would be on a standard guitar, and so translated well to the ear and fingers. Being a step and a half down was totally disconcerting - perhaps because it's a less obvious musical interval - and I had that same experience that Don had of feeling at sea, with confused ears and fingers (even on tunes I must have played hundreds of times live). It somewhat passed after a few hours, but it was seriously weird. It strikes me as odd that it never feels quite as weird capoing up, so I'm not really sure what's going on there!

I can wait to get my hands on the baritone Tom Sands has been building for me - which shares more than a few common strands with this (indeed, it almost shared a similar mahogany set of back and sides, but that's another story - and may yet end up on another Sands ... in my hands..!). Not long now...

Enjoy yours - may it bring you much happiness and inspiration!

[Max Spohn]

Originally Posted by David Wren

What a stunning instrument Max ... both looks and sound ... kudos!

Thank you David for your kind words! It is always an honor!

Originally Posted by nobo

Exactly what Col said! This has been a really great thread - fantastic guitar, photos, soundclips (lovely playing BTW), and an insightful review - which very much echoes my own experiences of baritone playing.

Thanks Dan! I am looking forward to hear your baritone.



Here is the first video of Don with the baritone! Enjoy it:

[Hasbro]

Originally Posted by Max Spohn

Thank you David for your kind words! It is always an honor!







Thanks Dan! I am looking forward to hear your baritone.







Here is the first video of Don with the baritone! Enjoy it:

That guy is an amazing player. I thought at first maybe someone was burning incense in that video!

An excellent sounding instrument.

[Diamondave]

Don, you're awesome, great video, and Max, KILLER Baritone, major impressive