Andr� BRUNET

Montreal, Canada, 2004
Western Red Cedar Soundboard, Indian Rosewood Back and Sides
Ebony fretboard with 650 string length
$ 3500

Another superb guitar from one of Canada's finest builders featuring a fine red cedar soundboard with impeccable workmanship throughout.

The tone is bright and sweet with singing first, second and third strings and impressive strong basses. The resonance is evenly rich thoughout the three and a half octaves.

This is a lyrical concert guitar that will satisfy the most demanding recitalist with its quick response and good sustain.

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Andr� BRUNET

Montreal, Canada, 2004
German Spruce Soundboard, Indian Rosewood Back and Sides
Ebony fretboard with 650 string length
$ 3500

It is a great honor for us to welcome the first Canadian guitar maker in our shop, and what an instrument we have to inaugurate the event! I met Andr? Brunet during the 2004 Guitar Foundation of America Festival in Montr?al and was immediately amazed by the great quality of his guitars. The first guitar has just arrived and it is very exciting. The elegant spruce top covered with "bear claw," or what the Germans call "hasselfichter," renders a powerful and cyrstal clear tone that entrances the ear. It is a joy for the ease of playing.
I understand why one of France's leading young performing artists, Emmanuel Rossfelder, made the trip from Paris to Montr?al to buy his guitar from Andr? Brunet this year. I had the good fortune to hear Rossfelder play his Brunet guitar in a Paris concert hall soon after the Montr?al festival (and after I'd already ordered several for the shop). That guitar filled the space with sonic light, a brilliance and warmth of tone seldom heard at guitar concerts.
Andr? Brunet is not very well known in the US, but in my opinion he is among the best North American and worldwide luthiers and we'll be hearing much more about him.