Keira demo's her brazillian made Di Giorgio nylon string 'unplugged"

Keira-WitherKay

hi ya all, recently i purchased (thanks to aja's good thinking to bring these to my attention) two Brazillian handmade nylon string guitars........ both by Di Giorgio , and both the same model one from 1972 and the other from 1974............ the labels are signed and dated and they guitars meant for bossanova/samba style but make fabulous all round nylons which sound good for latin/classical/cuban/african/flamenco even ......... they have ever so slightly smaller tops.......which one really only notices when you put it in a classical sized guitar case....... but they about a full cm if not more deeper than standard classical guitars.............

anyway i just shot some video ........only 40 seconds and 50 seconds each just to demo this guitar ................ this is using the 1974 Di Giorgio it has wild olive back and sides and believe it or not an oregan pine top( all Di Giorgio guitars right thru the range had oregan pine tops except one moel that had a cedar top) i love this guitar and the tone is what i adore............rich and warm ...........

i recorded this with the zoom Q3 camera (which has stereo condenser mic) and simply played unplugged in the room no editing or mastering to the sound so the sound you hear is the sound of the guitar acoustically .........

btw this vid cam(zoom Q3) has great sound and impresses me with it's ease of use.............

also my family of guitars in my current collection are behind me........... from left of the video as you see it ...... a 70's japanese built classical no makers name available, then to the right of that is the other Di Giorgio the 1972 model , to the right again is a guitar thats my main gig guitar and fitted with LR baggs my original pawn shop find a Yamaha G120 dating sometime from 1967 - 1974) then next to that is a yamaha G 225 also fitted with LR baggs i beam pickup dating from 1978 - 1981 and then of course i'm playing the 1974 Di Giorgio ...............which is destined for a visit to the guitar guy to get an LR baggs ibeam fitted as soon as next week or soon as i get time

i love this guitar ........ virtually exactly what i been seeking for a while and a great history/vibe included in it too.check out the carved headstock

btw both pieces played are original compositions of mine .......

PeteM

Thanks for those Keira - a beautiful sounding instrument.

It also seems that the camera you bought is perfect for your needs - so easy to capture your work with no time-wasting techno fiddling - a very good purchase indeed.

ZarK

...The sweet tones of a Nylon string guitar...

I have a mint '88 Yamaha CG 100A which I love. I'd like to get a new Nylon at some stage. Specs should be: single cut; electronics factory fitted and maybe slightly more playable neck than the traditional Nylon I already have. Any suggestions would be much appreciated? I'm open to all brands but I'm fond of Yamahas...

Congrats on your collection!

singemonkey

Lovely pieces.

I must confess to listening through laptop speakers. :-[ But they do seem to have a slightly sharper sound than a standard classical. Immediate Latin kind of timbre.

G-Man

Wow, those are very nice sounding guitars.
I also have a Di Giorgio, although I had to rescue mine out of a skip destined for the land fill and fix it up quite a bit ?

its a 1972 "Student No 18" , but sadly someone put steel strings on it at some point (ouch) and snapped the neck. After a bit of repair it sounds ok, it's what I learned to play on. Oh, and the original tuning heads had to be replaced because they were slipping. Amazing what people throw away...

Keira-WitherKay

G-Man wrote: Wow, those are very nice sounding guitars.
I also have a Di Giorgio, although I had to rescue mine out of a skip destined for the land fill and fix it up quite a bit ?

its a 1972 "Student No 18" , but sadly someone put steel strings on it at some point (ouch) and snapped the neck. After a bit of repair it sounds ok, it's what I learned to play on. Oh, and the original tuning heads had to be replaced because they were slipping. Amazing what people throw away...

yeah it's a few weeks on now......... and i'm finding my two di georgio's to be fabulous guitars . i'm under no illussions they the best out there but wow do they have character, surprising quality and sound and above all the playability is awesome and i got em cheap too........ (guy was leaving country) . both now have LR baggs ibeams in both of them and i'm using the '74 for my gig guitar at moment .

if you ever wanna sell yours contact me love to hear it and if i like it make you an offer

G-Man

Keira WitherKay wrote: if you ever wanna sell yours contact me love to hear it and if i like it make you an offer

No problem, I'll let you know if I ever want to sell it.

Ray

ZarK wrote: ...The sweet tones of a Nylon string guitar...

I have a mint '88 Yamaha CG 100A which I love. I'd like to get a new Nylon at some stage. Specs should be: single cut; electronics factory fitted and maybe slightly more playable neck than the traditional Nylon I already have. Any suggestions would be much appreciated? I'm open to all brands but I'm fond of Yamahas...

Congrats on your collection!

You looked at the Yamaha NTX/NCX range? NT's got radius and slightly narrower.

Bob-Dubery

G-Man wrote: its a 1972 "Student No 18" , but sadly someone put steel strings on it at some point (ouch) and snapped the neck. After a bit of repair it sounds ok, it's what I learned to play on. Oh, and the original tuning heads had to be replaced because they were slipping. Amazing what people throw away...

There was a thread and some pictures here a while back that you might relate to. A guitar ended up at McGibbon's. This was a Marc Maingard 10-string, complete with Brazilian rosewood, that had been trashed, painted and then turned into an electric lamp! It still had the two-cord lighting flex dangling out of a fixture that somebody had fitted into the body. Also it looked like somebody had tried to turn it into a 6 string.

G-Man

X-rated Bob wrote:
G-Man wrote: its a 1972 "Student No 18" , but sadly someone put steel strings on it at some point (ouch) and snapped the neck. After a bit of repair it sounds ok, it's what I learned to play on. Oh, and the original tuning heads had to be replaced because they were slipping. Amazing what people throw away...
There was a thread and some pictures here a while back that you might relate to. A guitar ended up at McGibbon's. This was a Marc Maingard 10-string, complete with Brazilian rosewood, that had been trashed, painted and then turned into an electric lamp! It still had the two-cord lighting flex dangling out of a fixture that somebody had fitted into the body. Also it looked like somebody had tried to turn it into a 6 string.

Haha, makes you want to strangle people sometimes hey? If guitars could talk...

eberhardt61

Just found this thread, as I managed to find a 1973 Di Giorgio Amazonia #30 model the other day. It will require a bit of fine work, but am quite intrigued by these guitars. The factory does not seem to exist anymore, does anyone have any other info of these guitars or any other models floating around in SA?

Wizard

I bought those two guitars from Keira.
Got them patched up a bit by Foster vd Merwe.
And Manny now owns one of them.