Barça

Luthierie is fonder in some countries than others. One of these countries is Spain, they practically developed the guitar luthier concept with the calssical flamenco guitar. As a friend of mine once told me -Barcelona, smells of guitar, everything in common life goes around the guitar-. Jerzy Drozd is a Luthier company that are specialized in bass guitar crafting. Jose Tirado Lacruz, Xavier Lorita Gomez, Ramon Armengol, Jerzy Drozd, and Kitxa the cat devote their lives, time and talent to bass building. They develop some of the most beautiful, elegant, innovative, fine, awesome basses. In their own words: "...Our approach to bass building is very simple: for us it's a science, meaning high precision, high-tech components. Also it's a fine artisan work, meaning special attention to every detail and finally, it's and Art...". And that's really what these instruments are, an outstanding piece of Art that could be displayed in a museum.

The Barcelona model is their newest model. Everything from the pickups from to the tunning machines is custom made. This is a neckthrough spanish cedar semihollow body instrument, made with the same wood used to build flamenco guitars. The strings go through the body improving resonance and sustain. Wooden pickup covers and an elegant hole in one of the horns. A wooden bridge and knobs. I don't have words to describe this work, would be unrespectful and I dare not describing with words such a beautiful beautiful guitar.