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Kolya Panhuyzen - 1999
Kolya Panhuyzen - 1999
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Kolya Panhuyzen
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About the luthier
In 1967, Kolya Panhuyzen built his first guitar in the workshop of his uncle, Edgar Mönch, one of the most influential luthiers of his time. Mönch’s guitars were played by world-renowned artists such as John Williams and Julian Bream. When Mönch returned to Germany from Canada in 1971, Kolya began working in his uncle’s workshop. Just a few years later, in 1974, Kolya established his own workshop and, in 1992, a second one in Toronto, Canada. Over the course of his career, Kolya Panhuyzen built more than 400 guitars, which have been admired and played by internationally acclaimed guitarists including Carlo Domeniconi, Hubert Käppel, Sonja Prunnbauer, Zoran Dukić, Jury Clormann, and Dale Kavanagh.About the guitar
This classical guitar was built in 1999 and features a two-piece spruce top framed by elegant dark and light purflings. The back and sides are made of beautiful Indian rosewood, lending the instrument a warm and rich tonal palette. The guitar is in excellent condition, with only minor traces of nail wear. It has recently been fitted with new high-quality Alessi machine heads. The sound is typical of Panhuyzen’s work—well-balanced, with exceptional sustain and deep, resonant basses. A true concert-quality instrument from one of the great German-Canadian luthiers of our time.
Otto Rauch is a German guitar maker from the small town of Obermoschel in Rheinland-Pfalz. With over 35 years of experience as a guitar maker, he is one of the German pioneers of double-top construction. After repairing a Matthias Dammann guitar in the early 1990s, Otto Rauch began building doubel-top guitars. At first, he used cedar struts and then a balsa core, a construction he continued to develop over the years. While helping a friend set up his violin making business, Otto Rauch came across the name of the 18th century Venetian violin maker Domenico Montagnana. His cellos are praised for their dark tone, fantastic sound volume and enigmatic construction. As these three attributes reflect Otto’s construction, he adopted the name, and the Domenico Montagnana model was born.









