BENNO STREU | Soundboard Tuning – Custom Acoustic Guitar
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Loading ...Posted on: September 15, 2009
Posted in: Acoustic Expert, Custom Acoustic Guitar, Custom Guitar Video, Featured
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Benno Streu, age 78, had never built a guitar. But, to many collectors and players of classical Spanish guitars, he is the keeper of the Holy Grail. Benno Streu began restoring classical guitars in the 1950’s. Had he not brought them back to life, many of the world’s most sought after historical instruments (from Torres, Arias, Ramirez, Santos Hernandes and Hauser) would have ended up as unplayable decorative objects.
Four years ago Custom Guitar Video went to the beautiful Blackforest city of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany to meet one of the most fascinating engineers in guitar restoration. His methods and approaches may not have always been in line with the traditions of the European Luthier’s Guild, but they had worked wonders time and time again. His unorthodox methods incorporated the exposure of collapsed cypress tops to cypress essential oils, hanging guitars on nylon strings to de-stress the soundboards and finding and correcting the flaws in “soundboard-tuning” in existing instruments. Thanks to Benno Streu, we are still able to enjoy the beauty of tone from these masterpieces in the world’s most renowned concert halls. Benno Streu’s unrivaled knowledge just might be an important part of contemporary guitar history. Judge for yourself and enjoy.
Benno Streu spent a beautiful summer afternoon with GOURMET GUITARS® in and two of the most important instruments in Spanish history, La Leona and Vincente Arias 1874.
Unfortunately Benno Streu passed away two years after the interview. God bless him!
In part 1 of the extensive feature Benno Streu shares his extensive knowledge about how to tune the top of an acoustic guitar. Guitar virtuoso Wulfin Lieske plays the famous “La Leona” of Torres in a stunning concert performance.
