David Merrin Classical Guitars - Restoration and Repair

David has been commissioned to undertake many restoration and repair projects and recent work has been the total reconstruction of an Adam Hermanos, and restoration of an 1824 Gennaro Fabricatore and an 1840 Luis Panormo. David carries out any restoration work needed on the guitars in the Granary-Guitars Collection.
Gennaro Fabricatore (Italy) - 1824 Gennaro was a very important maker of stringed instruments. He worked in Naples from 1773-1832, making all manner of stringed instruments, including violins and cellos. There are examples of Gennaro's guitars in museums in Stuttgart, Buenos Aires and Rome. This guitar was very dirty and some work was needed on the pegs and fretboard. It is now a playable instrument, and much of its former glory has been restored.
	Louis Panormo (England) - 1840 Panormo was the son of an Italian luthier and was born in Paris in 1784. He moved to London in 1819 and set up shop in Bloomsbury, where he built a variety of stringed instruments including guitars. As his label states: Louis Panormo was`The only maker of Guitars in the Spanish style'. His guitars, together with the Spaniard Josef Page's, were important in development of the guitar. They included fan strutting, which allowed a thinner top to be used with higher tension strings without the table breaking under the strain. David had the project of restoring one of these guitars, and because the struts had been removed in previous poor repair work, he had to take off the back and re-strut the guitar. This particular guitar had an extra strut on the treble side.
Any restoration or repair work on guitars of any age would be considered, and pricing would be on an individual basis after inspecting the work required.

Take a look at some more of David's restoration work.
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If you'd like to find out more, please e-mail David Merrin direct at david@davidmerringuitars.com.