Customers' Comments
The following comments are from some of the players who are playing Southwell guitars.
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Forbes Henderson, London
It has been my good fortune to be a regular player and fan of Gary Southwell's guitars. Gary's highly developed sense of both the art, craft and history of guitar-making gives his instruments an excitingly adventurous range of possibility- fitting into a long tradition, but always striving to improve the state of our art. That he has succeeded superbly in the latter places him among the elite of contemporary guitar builders.
David Starobin, New York
I’m absolutely thrilled to bits with my new guitar! Wonderful treble sound, great bass and the action is spot on! Thank you so much.
Wendy Partridge
10 minutes to midnight, and I was still playing this magnificent guitar…I have never in my life owned a guitar (or anything else, for that matter) as fine as this, nor did I ever expect to. It just keeps revealing itself, little by little, and I can’t help but feel that everything I am getting from it now is only a hint of what is to come. The sound of this guitar is an entire world, a world I look forward to exploring, and spending a great deal of time in.
I still can’t believe this one is mine; I keep thinking I’m going to have to bring it back to you next week! It will take a while to sink in, I think - in more ways than one.
There are not words to express my gratitude. But there will be music…
Mike McCartney
Wow, this is absolutely beautiful, I’ve always loved this design, anyway.
Scott Tennant L.A.
The guitar arrived today and I've had a few hours to play it. Good grief! its a very interesting guitar and wicked rewarding to play. I really support you in your quest, and happily am playing Dowland, Milano & Bach 'cello Suites (with some Lauro thrown in for effect) well into the night; tomorrow be damned.
John Dana
I just wanted to say how much I appreciate your work on my A Series guitar. You really went above and beyond what others might have done. This guitar is elegant, with a lovely tone that is absolutely unique and a clarity beyond what I have heard on any other instrument, and I am so very happy to have this guitar!
Erik Mann
My English falls short of the beauty of tone it is able to produce, very even through all the registers, differentiated, un-spainishly mixing mid-European romanticism with my here and now, down to earth and very high up in ethereality. And I haven’t said anything about its gorgeous looks yet. I am absolutely smitten.
Rudolf Ninks, Germany
I am very happy with the new guitar. It is a very well tuned guitar and it has a wonderful balance between sustain and volume.
Leif Hesselberg, Denmark
I would like to thank you a thousand times for making me this guitar in such a short time, but most of all for the extraordinary quality of this instrument. The clarity, responsiveness and the tonal colors amaze me, and for the first time I have a clue to some of the extraordinary tone colors that Segovia produced on his old Hauser.
Joseph Bacon, San Francisco
My old 90’s Temperate Southwell guitar still blows people away in my studio.
Pat O’Brien, New York
I personally think that it’s remarkable that you made such a good instrument for me first time around, and remember that my requirements are of the very highest too. I have such a vast experience of fine guitars and how they speak, that nothing slips past the wet. Apart from all that, it’s a good box!
Julian Bream, Semley
You are a poet and an artist!
Georges S. Kaye, Oxford
Now this is a GUITAR!!! I just tuned up your magnificent new guitar and played just a few notes and chords on it – fantastic!
Armin Kelly, Cleveland
Thanks for your amazing work on the ten string. It is really beautiful.
Paul Croft
It’s absolutely fantastic, one of the greatest guitars I’ve ever played actually. It seems to get better and better it’s an absolutely wonderful sound and I’m completely delighted with it.
Douglas Rogers, Brighton
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