Each Muth guitar is custom built to suit your tonal preferences and playing style while still possessing my signature sound. My guitars are hand built one at a time with only the finest materials using well thought out designs. I have invested a lot of time in developing the models I offer to optimize tone and playability while maintaining aesthetic sensibility. New designs are only offered once I am satisfied with their sound.
In building a guitar, the needs of the player and the properties of each individual piece of wood are carefully considered. Thus, each piece of wood is evaluated according to its weight, stiffness, and responsiveness. There are many ways of gathering this information and every builder has their own approach. In addition to using a combination of quantitative methods to gather much of this information; I also tap, scratch, and listen to each piece of wood to qualitatively assess its tone. For me it is a very holistic process. By using these techniques, I can build a guitar to give my customers the sound they are looking for.
As a builder I believe things are often greater than the sum of their parts, gestalt so to speak. It is very magical when this happens. This is an especially important principle of how I approach guitar building. The sound of a guitar can be analytically described in such terms as balance, projection, volume, sustain, clarity, separation, response, etc. However, when all of these come together in the right combination, it has that something extra that cannot be explained. Like great music.
My goal is to create instruments that have that intangible something extra that makes you want to pick it up and never put it down.
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