Daryl Perry

Daryl Perry is one of North America’s most respected traditional guitar makers. His instruments follow the Torres lineage and are crafted exclusively with classic materials and methods, without carbon, double backs, or double tops. Producing only a limited number of guitars each year, Perry builds concert instruments known for their rich openness, tonal balance, strong projection, and wide dynamic and color range. Many international soloists and chamber musicians value his guitars for their expressive depth and distinctive voice.

Exclusive Offers and Insights

Stay in tune with exclusive updates and offers from Siccas Guitars! Subscribe to our weekly newsletter and be the first to hear about new arrivals, special promotions, and expert insights into guitar craftsmanship. Enter your email below to join our community.

You may also be interested Daryl Perry

Daryl Perry Guitars: Crafting Tradition and Innovation

A Perry guitar represents the highest standards of design, materials, and craftsmanship. Each instrument is created with the unwavering goal of building the most complete musical tool possible—one capable of offering the fullest range of expressive potential. Perry guitars feature a rich, open sound with deep, well-defined basses, clear and resonant trebles, and remarkable balance. They offer a broad dynamic range and an extensive palette of tonal colors, all while maintaining excellent projection. Their voices carry through concert halls worldwide, captivating audiences in both solo and chamber music settings. Built from long-aged spruce, rosewood, maple, cedar, mahogany, and ebony, Perry guitars are crafted using traditional methods and produced only in limited numbers each year. Every aspect—structural integrity, playability, aesthetic detail, and above all sound quality—is held to the highest standard.

Perry guitars draw inspiration from the great luthiers of the past, particularly Torres, and those who followed in his footsteps (M. Ramirez, Garcia, Simplicio, Hauser, Romanillos). A Perry guitar uses no carbon fiber, features a single soundhole and a single soundboard, embracing traditional designs known for producing outstanding instruments.

Perry guitars fall into two categories: Perry Concert Guitars, merging traditional designs and materials into instruments suited to modern performers, and historical reproductions, several of which are showcased here.

Daryl Perry

“The ideas of Torres laid the foundation for guitar development from the 19th through the 20th into the 21st century as the guitar’s demands evolved. My evolution as a guitar maker has been more about discovery than reinvention. I make historical reproductions as a way to uncover and inherit tradition. My concert guitars are my contribution to their evolution.”

“I firmly believe that there is no substitute for the intimate knowledge of materials that arises from hand labor with hand tools. This understanding is invaluable in unlocking the full musical potential of these materials.”