La Fondatrice (The “Foundress”)

Technical description :

Soundboard: Rigorously hand-split spruce from the Panaveggio forest in Val di Fiemme
Bottom Deck and Body Sides : Makassar Ebony
Inserts in back, sides and fillets: entirely made from curly maple and ebony
Handle : cedar
Fretboard : Ebony
Pitch fork : 664
Pitch : 45 hz (about 1.5 octave beyond the open low E, 6th string = 82.4 hz)
Maximum resonant frequency of the case: 3132 hz

The Story of this Guitar

Listening to a vinyl of the aria on the fourth string by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) from the Suite for orchestra in D major n. 3 BWV 1068, I came to the realization that my new project had not yet been fulfilled:

the guitar, being a plucked instrument, due to its intrinsic characteristics, was unable to evoke that orchestral sense of continuity of sound, clearly perceptible for example in the orchestra version of BWV 1068, characterized by those long and poignant sounds of the strings and other instruments, in the melody part of this wonderful piece ...

Thus, unable to resign myself and accept what everyone else had, that is to say that each instrument has its merits and its shortcomings or, better said, its own characteristics, I began to think how I could possibly carry over some of the typical acoustic properties of stringed instruments onto a guitar…

Then… the “intuition”…. Introducing some important innovations to my new bracing ... and after some tests which, in terms of results, confirmed the soundness of my intuition, I went ahead and built my first guitar with the new bracing. By virtue of this