There were many fine Luthiers with examples of their Art, in other words there were may Beautiful Instruments on display.
It would be impossible for me to feature then all but I am going to feature some of the examples that took my Fancy.
I will do this in separate posts the first Luthier was from Malaysia and that was Jeffrey Yong.
Jeffrey has been building for may years but this year he pushed the boundaries with three Guitars (he sold them ALL) great work Jeffrey.
The instrument that took my fancy was a “Combination Guitar” i.e. it had the upper bout of a Classical and the lower of a small Jumbo,but as the pictures disclose the instrument was in perfect balance FURTHER it was made entirely of Monkey Pod, a Malaysian timber with stunning figure.
The instrument had a “Players Blow Hole” on the upper bout any was cut away foe player comfort on the upper leading edge of the lower bout a very nice feature that is creeping into the instruments of the makers of top end instruments.
This Guitar was a delight to play being very comfortable in the players hands and extremely well balanced across the range in fact I found it almost impossible to fault. My only criticism would be the gold string pins but Jeffrey assured me that they added to 20 per cent of the Guitars tone,which I doubted.
This was a fine instrument with a load buoyant but mellow tone and was in my opinion a perfect finger players Guitar
