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Description: 2024 Elias Bonet Concert Air (Double top)

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French polished Solid Spruce Top, Madagascar back and sides, Aire bracing.

This model is aimed at guitarists who are immersed in the dynamics of competitions and who need an instrument which is more powerful and easy to play, and which will give them confidence on stage. It is also designed to be played in chamber music contexts, where that added power will help the guitarist to mix with the other instrumentalists without suffering from the guitar’s all-too-common volume disadvantage.

But this is not all about power. The motivation for this project stems from the desire to increase volume but without losing tonal quality. This leads us to the special process for building the sound board for this model, which was inspired by studying guitars created by the German guitar-maker, Antonius Müller. His idea of a double sound board is the one that has interested me most in order to enhance timbre quality.

The result is a guitar which is more responsive, balanced and consistent, which has more sustain, is easier to control, and has better sound projection. Moreover, all of this is achieved without losing the rich timbre that makes the guitar such a special instrument. The possibility of timbre-loss was what worried me most throughout the early development of this model but whilst the sound is somewhat thinner than in the traditional model, this guitar also provides better-defined individual notes when four or more strings sound at the same time.

The use of contemporary materials such as carbon fiber and the thickness of the wood allows us to play with the rigidity and weight distribution in the structure of the guitar. This is crucial to achieve an instrument that will always give us the highest quality of tone in any dynamic range, for both pianissimo and fortissimo.

DETAILS

• Year: 2023

• Top French polished Solid Spruce Top

• Back & Sides African Rosewood

• Fingerboard: African Ebony

• Neck Honduran Cedar

• Scale length: 650mm

• Nut width 52 mm

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Elias Bonet has a very eclectic background. He graduated with a degree in industrial design from the EINA Centre for Art and Design in Barcelona and then studied classical and flamenco guitar at the Liceu Conservatory in the same city.

In the year 2000, Elias co-founded Lacreativa.com, a design studio, but in 2009 he left the world of industrial design to dedicate himself professionally to guitar-making.

It was by a chance meeting with the Yagüe brothers which provided Elias the opportunity to build his first guitar in their workshop after he tried to order one from them.

From the first cut of wood, Elias was spellbound by this new, mysterious world of lutherie. In addition to learning from the Yagüe brothers, Elias also befriended Juan Antonio Reyes Torres, another excellent guitar-maker who opened his doors to Elias.

After several years of apprenticing, Elias finally opened his own workshop in March of 2009 and has been building professionally on his own as an independent maker since then.

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At GuitarsOnline we pride ourselves on discovering very special guitars, from the world’s greatest established and up-and-coming artisan luthiers.

This Elias Bonet Concert Aire double-top, is one such instrument and Elías Bonet Monné, is one such luthier.

Hand crafted only to order, the “work of art” below, is our guitar - made specifically for GuitarsOnline.

Elías Bonet currently quotes 12+ months for delivery of any new orders.

Pierre is picking this up on his coming trip to the Elías Bonet workshop, and bringing it back for one very lucky client.

Contact Pierre if you would like to be the very fortunate owner of this stunning instrument.