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Cocobolo & European Spruce Flamenco Guitar
How often do you meet someone working on their Ph.D. in music composition, who also happens to be in their mid-twenties! I’d venture to guess such a person is not easy to find. As fortune […]
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Engelmann Spruce & East Indian Rosewood Classical Guitar
GUITAR SPECS: Tonewoods: Soundboard: Engelmann Spruce Back/sides: East Indian Rosewood (EIR) Neck: Spanish Cedar Fingerboard: Pau Ferro, a.k.a morado, palo santos, caviuna, Brazilian ironwood, and Bolivian rosewood, to name a few. This wood has very […]
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Alternative Local Tonewood Flamenco Guitar: Origen de Oregon
For a moment, let us forget the exotic and the far-away, setting aside our telescopes, navigational charts and GPS. Globally-sourced will not be the goal, as I focus on constructing this guitar, made of materials […]
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40-Year Dry German Spruce and Brazilian Rosewood Flamenca Negra
A guitarmaker’s shop is a bit like a kitchen. A multitude of simmering pots, clanging of utensils and dishes, grinding, chopping, sauteing…. Guitars being finished, new ones started, repairs large and small under way. It […]
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3816 SE Liebe St., Portland, OR 97202 Phone (no texts please) 503.261.3942 email tsiorbaguitars@gmail.com Appointment Hours: Tuesday–Friday: 11am–6pm. Saturdays: 11am–3pm. Shipping/Correspondence Address: Peter Tsiorba, 4207 SE Woodstock Blvd., #354, Portland, OR 97206
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Guitar Repair and Restoration Services
Repair and maintenance of a fine classical or flamenco guitar is not a matter of “if,” but of “when.” Aside from strings, nuts and saddles wear out, as do frets. French polish will eventually need […]
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Guitar Construction
One would think that guitar construction has been largely standardized over the course of many decades and centuries. It turns out that such is not the case. Not only do regional traditions and differences exist, […]
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Tsiorba Flamenco Guitars
A flamenco guitar is not just any guitar equipped with tap plates. Nor is it simply a matter of tonewood choice (i.e. rosewood vs. cypress). Historically, guitars were not differentiated along “classical” or “flamenco” lines. […]