penndan wrote:
What did Schoenberg do to his bracing that made is so good?
He had Dana Bourgeois do it
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| Author: | Dan Pennington [ Sun Jun 16, 2013 4:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Eric Schoenberg Bracing |
What did Schoenberg do to his bracing that made is so good? |
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| Author: | Pmaj7 [ Sun Jun 16, 2013 5:25 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eric Schoenberg Bracing |
Have other people make it? |
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| Author: | Tom West [ Sun Jun 16, 2013 7:33 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eric Schoenberg Bracing |
Did he build guitars...............??? Tom |
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| Author: | JSDenvir [ Sun Jun 16, 2013 8:13 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eric Schoenberg Bracing |
penndan wrote: What did Schoenberg do to his bracing that made is so good? He had Dana Bourgeois do it
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| Author: | Tony_in_NYC [ Mon Jun 17, 2013 5:09 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eric Schoenberg Bracing |
And Bruce Sexauer. |
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| Author: | yukonarizona [ Mon Jun 17, 2013 7:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eric Schoenberg Bracing |
And Julius Borges - the best of them all. |
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| Author: | Tom West [ Mon Jun 17, 2013 8:26 am ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eric Schoenberg Bracing |
I guess he just sold guitars built by other folks.............??? Tom |
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| Author: | CDKeith [ Mon Jun 17, 2013 6:09 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Eric Schoenberg Bracing |
That's right Tom, Eric Schoenberg is not a luthier. Instead he commissions guitars to be built to his specifications and sells them under his brand. They are modelled upon guitars build by Martin during the fabeled pre-war era. You can read a lot about the early history of Schoenberg guitars here: http://www.gansz.org/David/Guitars/Schoenberg/Index.htm In short, as a professional musician and guitar shop owner, Eric fell in love with the OM guitars that Martin built from 1929 to 1933. In 1986 he began a collaboration with luthier Dana Bourgeois and C.F. Martin to produce the OM once more, after decades of absence. The new OM had a cutaway designed by Eric and Dana and was called "The Soloist". Dana selected and thicknessed the tonewoods, braced/tap-tuned the soundboards, etc. The "parts" were then taken to the Martin factory for final assembly and lacquering. The completed guitars had a Martin serial number but Eric's logo on the headstock. Dana left in 1990 and would eventually start his own company in Maine. His role in the collaboration was taken by his apprentice, TJ Thompson. Schoenberg's collaboration with Martin ended in 1994, and Julius Borges (another of Dana's apprentices) took on the job of building guitars under the Schoenberg label. Today, Eric's guitars are hand built by a number of prominent luthiers, such as Bruce Sexauer, John Slobod, and Robert Anderson. |
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