Like every Marvi, this guitar sold to the first client who played it, I am hoping for another this year, please contact me for details...

I was introduced to Andres Marvi by Robert Ruck, who met Marvi in Spain some years ago and was impressed with his work. He brought me back a guitar, and that ultimately led to my appointment as Andy's exclusive US Representative. Andy joins many other fine builders in this sense and I am very pleased to offer his guitars to you now.

Anthony Graham Devine and Goran Krivokapic are but two of the artists who play a Marvi guitar. Andy is a guitarist himself and has been building for nearly 30 years now. Although he was born in Germany, he lives and builds in Spain. His guitars combine many of his own ideas with those of Torres, Romanillos, Imai, Yague, which results in a rich blend of complimentary concepts.

The neck has an elevated fingerboard, and it is continuous to the sound hole which Marvi says gives the guitar more sustain, timbre and responsiveness above the 12^th fret while also adding more stability at the junction of the neck and the body. The sides are doubled, not unlike Bernabe, with Brazilian Rosewood outer and maple inner, which Marvi feels brings added projection. The guitar is French Polished and uses a 7 fan strut pattern for bracing with 4 bars for the back.

This guitar, as Andy indicates, has excellent projection and 'presence', it also has a very warm sound, smooth and musical, lush and even. The Graf tuners are not only liquid smooth but help prevent 'de-tuning' while playing by the way they are designed. Being a player himself Andy has created a very pleasant neck carve.

Well known Italian guitarist Aniello Desiderio declared after receiving his Marvi guitar that it was the best instrument he had ever played. He is receiving enthusiastic interest from the artists and players in both the Classical and Flamenco worlds and I am pleased to represent him here in the USA.

Andy places his label when he works on the back, not when the guitar is finished, this guitar was completed and received in March 2008 and is a new "2008" guitar in that sense, even though the label read "2007".

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