The guitar works in accordance with a very simple principle.
Plucked strings cause wood to vibrate, a soundbox amplifies the sound, and the result is what we call the "sound of the guitar".
Building a guitar is also a fundamentally simple process, not unlike many other kinds of craft. Here, as in all forms of human activity, what really matters is how it is done: Michelangelo used materials and tools that are available to everyone, and the same may be said of the musical materials used by Bach, Mozart and Beethoven. The things we have before our eyes daily - colours, sounds, matter - can assume a different identity in a particular person's hands, can communicate things previously unknown, suggest worlds that were previously inconceivable, take on new life: a life that is not inherent in the element in question, but of which the element makes itself a humble and unobtrusive vehicle.


Tradition and Innovation

The traditions and the history that have preceded us constitute the indispensable bases for building the new.
Over the years, the analysis and the study of guitars in the great tradition (Torres, Garcia, Hauser, Simplicio, Arias, Esteso, Santos Hernandez...), like the most beautiful ones of modern times, have given Waldner the fundamental knowledge for important innovations.
The guitars of Luca Waldner are built with modern technology, from the gluing under vacuum to the use of sophisticated instrumentation to check environmental humidity, from the use of a particular and complicated treatment for the wood of the soundboard to the use of measuring instrumentation that is particularly advanced, while still using materials, glues, paints, knowledge and information that have their roots in the knowledge that the filter of time has given us.
The design of Luca Waldner’s guitars is absolutely new and original. It has inside an exclusive register, and a soundboard absolutely free in its movement. This allows depth of sound and brilliance in tunes to be united, and an absolutely amazing sound projection.
An absolute novelty in the field of stringed instruments, which is based on the typical sounds of the historical guitars of the great Spanish tradition.

News and events

08-12 A new guitar added in the gallery.
This guitar has the internal project with the register inside, but with this new instrument I'm proud to present, after a long work, a new design for the head. This head will replace the old one in next guitars.
You can view this guitar clicking here.

25-11 After a bit more than one year, the forum lucawaldner.com close.
Many reasons, most of them reported in this post of the forum (translated with google).
The forum will remain open in read only mode for registered users, the guest will not have access to it anymore.

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