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| The New Acoustic Scharpach Guitar |
 It began
1980 with an "Ibanez" guitar with 24 frets and ended 2002 in this instrument with 39 frets.
1982 the first custom made instrument by Armin Weller (Markneukirchen-Germany) steel-string and
1983 a nylon-string made by Frank-Peter Dietrich (Erlbach-Germany). Both instruments with 24 frets + some extra frets on small bridges for g,a,b,e,g.
1989 The Dolphin, the first 39 fret-steelstring guitar, made by Theo Scharpach (Bergeyk-Netherland) and 1990 the same model as nylon-string.
The necks of these guitars are optimized by the Plek System.
(for more info check: www.plek.com).
2002 - the new acoustic guitar Kropinski Special, made by Theo Scharpach.
Acoustic sound: A special construction (bracing, frame construction) developed by Scharpach, produces a very outstanding, loud sound. The challenge was to make an instrument that projects all notes from E to g'''' in a good way. The result is astonishing. Every note in every range sounds very clear and even.
Electrification: A Schertler bridge pickup and two Microphones (Audio-Technica) inside the guitar go through a multi-core-cable seperatly to a "Mackie-Mixer". One mic right, the other left channel, pickup center. The system to use two mics (inside) and a bridge pickup for live playing is the only one that works for me in a proper way! The result you hear is a lot more what you normally expect from an electrified acoustic guitar. You not only will hear an acoustic string sound, but a really wooden sound of an extrordinary acoustic guitar.
Sum up: This instrument is special in both ways, acoustic and electric. The extraordinary craftmenship of Scharpach combined with the best components for electrification available today (Schertler pickup) gives a combination that allows me to use one instrument in all the different musical situations I am in, in classical type of situations and in playing with a loud drummer as well!
The strings I am using are Thomastik Infeld exclusively. |
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