Albert & M?ller Gitarren

[RB]

By the way: Hi Laser, welcome. Feel free to participate any time. Many among us hat Eenglish att skoohl und so hat eye.

[tbrenner]

Hi Laser,

welcome here!

I own also a Albert + Müller Guitar, built in 1992 which looks quite like
yours. I bought it also sec. hd. as a S 4-Model.
Back and sides are Rio- Rosewood. It´s a cannon ....,
huge bass, rich mid frequencies, very nices overtones and it plays like a dream up to the highest
frets.
Mine has also many scratches on the top (from the former owner, of course ) and I would be interested what a restauration will cost.

I have built in a L.R. Baggs active i-beam , which sounds pretty good -
but would be interested how sufficient you are with your system?


Have good time,

tbrenner

[Laser]

Thank you all for your heartly welcome.
I feel at home right away.


Apparently the florentine cutaway was used on the S-series as a standard (information received from A+M), which was replaced by the venetian cw around the year 2000.
I like the florentine a lot as a visual feature.
All bindings were wood, even on the lower S - series ( nowadays starting from the S4 up).

I am not sure what rosewood the sides and back are made off; all solid of course; it is NOT rio, i would think madagascar rosewood.
I am not sure about the top spruce type either. I hope to get this information when I visit the shop.

@tbrenner, I agree about the volume this guitar can develop: it can go HUGE in volume. It filled the whole shop when I played loud, and still it sounded articulate in every note of the chords, not 'muddy' like my cedar top Furch.
And its intonation is right in both standard and DADGAD tuning, all up the neck. The latter being my favorite tuning for this guitar.



As for the damage from an earlier owner:
I don't care about some wear and scratches, it demonstrates the former owner played this guitar very often en very enthousiastically.

All my steel strings I have now are second hand. I like to grant older guitars a new life, and keep the ones I like best. I sold my Seagull ( my first new steel string ever), a Yamaha APX8 (neck too thin for fingerstyle and no good as an acoustic), and a 1962 Harmony Sovereign 1203 (a wonderfull mississipi blues guitar, but not my sound, so I sold it to a blues player). It's a joy for me to look for unordinary guitars, take care of them
and bring them back to play music. Maybe I'll start learning the big repairs works myself one day...

[RB]

If you visit the shop you will see that it is really small. These guys really work the traditional way.

[Jensy]

HI Laser,

a warm welcome from me too.

A month ago, just before christmas i had a A&M S1 in the workshop.

The client did not play it for a long time. It did a new set up and
strings and ajusting the action and a little face lift so on....

But the sound was really good right from the start after haven´t been played for such a long time.

Another client felt the same.

Also Tony Müller is a nice guy.
If you visit the workshop say hello from me...

All the best

Jens

[Janpeter]

High, dear friends and freaks of the axes;

one of my astounding discoveries at the Peter Fingers Osnabruck's Open Strings was the steelstring series of Albert & Müller; always keeping in mind they' d made classical nylon strings only.

So I had an S 1 model first with a spruce soundboard and an indian palisander back and sides; as my Lowden and the Guild GF have; and I liked it fairly well, indeed. Then I took an S 5 model - and I was exhilarated with its sound reminding me of my Lowden straight away. Talking to Mister Müller he told me that this was a master built model with some technicel details of the classical guitars techniques, such as the bracing, of what I understood.

Anyway, I liked the Albert & Müller steelstrings a lot indeed; though also the sombre sounding Volkert steelstrings was a choice of the day; however, to be honest; often I think it's a matter of a daily changing taste according the individual mood your are at for the moment you take a guitar and remember the sounds of others. In the end I'm always happy to get home to my Guild.

Sincerely Yours
Jan-Peter