Marc Teicholz playing one of Antonio Lauro's famous Venezuelan Waltzes 'Vals Venezolano #3 'Natalia' on a 1958 Hernandez y Aguado 

Antonio Lauro: Vals Venezolano #3 - Natalia

Marc Teicholz playing Manuel Ponce's 'Valse' on a 1967 Ignacio Fleta

Manuel Ponce: Valse

Marc Teicholz playing Sergio Assad's 'Valseana' on a 1936 Hauser I. From 'Valseana'

Sérgio Assad: Valseana

Marc Teicholz playing Johannes Brahms' Waltz Op.39 No. 15 on an 1888 Antonio De Torres. From 'Valseana'

Johannes Brahms: Waltz, Op.39,#15

A collection of performances by some of the world's top players, all on guitars from the legendary and historic Russell Cleveland Collection #MusicAtGSI #GSISoundcloud #ClassicalGuitar #FlamencoGuitar #GuitarLife

Tavi Jinariu - Lagrima (1988 Hauser III)

A collection of tracks from our good friend Ricardo Giuffrida. Recorded at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA

Just Samba (1976 Miguel Rodriguez "Churchdoor")

Scarlatti Sonata K.1 (2006 Michael Bruck)

Scarlatti Sonata K.11 (1992 Ober/Blochinger)

We were fortunate to be able to record a concert last year of the entire Romero family along with virtuoso ukulele player Daniel Ho. The concert featured duets by Pepe Romero and Daniel Ho, as well as solos by each, in the first half, and then the Romero quartet in the second half. Angel Romero even made an appearance and sat in with the quartet. All instruments – guitars and ukuleles – were made by luthier Pepe Romero Jr., and it’s a wonderful showcase of the instruments played by some seriously legendary players.

The Romeros And Daniel Ho In Concert - Romance Anonimo

The Romeros And Daniel Ho In Concert - Canarios

The Romeros And Daniel Ho In Concert - Boccherini

We recently acquired a singular instrument – an experimental meantone guitar made by the great French luthier Daniel Friederich in 1976. As you can see, the fretboard looks a little crazy. Fortunately, we have the world’s authority on what is commonly referred to as microtonal guitar right here in Santa Monica – John Schneider. We called John to get some information on this guitar and others like it, and discovered that he’s been working with our friend Mak Grgic on music written for, let’s say ‘differently fretted’ guitars. In fact, Mak is currently working on a CD of microtonal music (we’ll keep you posted on that).


In the videos John and GSI president David Collett discuss what microtonal music is, how composers and musicians have looked at tuning over the years, and how the meantone guitar works. We also have some great performances of music by Lou Harrison, played by John, and of music by Francesco da Milano and Silvius Leopold Weiss performed by Mak.

Since not all microtonal guitars are the same (as John explains in the videos), they brought in a couple of John’s instruments, too. One is a 1988 Walter Vogt that features a “Fine-tunable Precision Fret-board” invented by the maker [U.S. Patent # 4,981,064] that consists of one individual moveable ‘fretlet’ for each note on the instrument. The 110 individual frets are also slightly U-shaped shaped pieces of fretwire, designed to counteract any mistuning by inadvertent bending of the string. The instrument also uses Vogt’s specially designed compensating nut. The other is John’s 1982 Bob Mattingly with custom Interchangeable Fingerboards by Novatone.

Microtonal - John Schneider Plays Lou Harrison 'Jahla'

1976 Daniel Friederich - Microtonal Guitar - John Schneider - Part 2 Of 3

1976 Daniel Friederich - Microtonal Guitar - John Schneider - Part 1 Of 3

A compilation of performances of the music of J.S. Bach over the years here at Guitar Salon International. This playlist has samples of a variety of different instruments from various luthiers and time periods. Featuring performances from Marc Teicholz, George Sakellariou, Olivia Chiang, and other classical guitarists. All of these tracks were recorded at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA

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