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3 unusual facts about Greg Smallman


Guitar bracing

The Australian guitarmaker Greg Smallman introduced guitars with an extremely thin soundboard, which is supported by bracing in the shape of a lattice.

Maestro guitars

Maestro’s classical guitars are made in the original Spanish way, with either a traditional fan-bracing or Greg Smallman’s lattice-bracing.

Xuefei Yang

During her Madrid debut at age 14, the composer Joaquín Rodrigo was among the audience; in 1995, after John Williams listened to her performance in Beijing, he was so impressed that he loaned two of his own Greg Smallman guitars to her conservatory, for her and other top students to play.



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