The Vienna Archtop
The Vienna Apex
“A new acoustic approach creating an acoustic archtop respecting a traditional appearance.”
After several years of research We are proud to present a new archtop concept. This Archtop is called the Vienna Apex and is a full acoustic design: powerfull and responding like any other acoustic guitar. The bracing system developed is called H.I.T.: Harmonic-Integrated-Topdesign. The famous jazz guitarist Philip Catherine has played the guitar and he simple loved it...
The Vienna Opus
For the Vienna I started to use topplates that I had bought from the widow of A. Lang. This old stock I must have bought in 1990 or so. Lang was a well-known German guitarmaker living in Garmisch Partenkirchen, Germany and died in 1975. The Vienna is built for the most passionate archtop guitar lovers. The architectural purity of the design gives the guitar a clean shape that presents the essence of the sound. All design details enhance the beauty and the basic shape of the guitar. All the proportions are perfectly balanced creating a very dynamic powerful elegance. Yet this is done without any extrovert features that would distract the eye.
The Vienna Zenith
The Vienna Zenith is a high quality archtop and comes with a flat headstock instead of the extreme complex and unique slotted headstock. That is the main difference. All colours are available.
The Blue Vienna
My first Archtop that became widely known to a bigger audience was in the days, when I was invited by Scott Chinery to participate as a guitarmaker for his BLUE GUITAR collection (That was already in 1997). KEN VOSE writes in his book BLUE GUITAR
Archtop finishes are:
- Vienna Sunset: A custom sunburst Vienna.
- Vienna Golden: No shades but a beautiful mellow golden yellow.
- Vienna Golden Shade: Golden yellow with orange running into brown shades.
- Vienna Traditional Brown: inspired by the beautiful browns used by the Cremona Makers
- Vienna Natural Blonde: Simply a natural blond with the slightest tint.
VIENNA Sound Samples:
Humbucker Recording
