Reminiscing on how my guitar building passion started. I can clearly see now the frustration which at first turned me away from the guitar years ago. The disappointment of not being a good enough player - a jealousy that did not let me even listen to guitar music. Luckily all this could not live buried in me, so a few years later it resurfaced as a new, cleaner and healthier obsession in the instrument - it's construction and it's sound, in building acoustic chambers with a vibrant top pumping against the sound waves just so, that the guitar can vibrate and almost move and come alive while being played.

This is what I strive for these days - making guitars which have this quality, guitars which have volume, tone and presence, good separation of individual notes in a chord, tonal attack and sustain, balance between high and low notes, and all this through the entire range of the fret board with a very comfortable action.

- D.M. Tenev

 

Dimitri Tevev is a Bulgarian who settled in the U.S. in the late 90's as a cabinet maker, guitar maker and living room guitar player. For many years he led a gypsy's life as a fine artist, cartoonist, construction and hospital worker, grape picker and guitar and bag pipe player in subways and streets of Sofia, Paris, Madrid, Dublin, Oslo and Chicago. Dimitri now lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area where he builds guitars along with his cabinet and furniture work, and acoustic and electric instrument repair work for various music stores in the East Bay. He hopes that DMT Guitars are played and enjoyed.

Dimitri

 

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