This labour intensive process delivers a finish thinner than lacquer and with a smoother more organic tone. Guitars like this are often quite difficult to play and produce a very narrow tone, this Eastman though is a real delight to play and the tone is broad and full. It has a real premium feel while producing a wide range of stellar tones, this is a serious guitar for serious players. The Maple neck boasts an Ebony fingerboard, it feels smooth and effortless underhand. Inspired by the classic Gypsy Jazz guitars of the 30s and 40s, this guitar offers vintage styling and super slick modern playability. This is a tonewood pairing made in heaven, rich, even and with unbelievable clarity, the DM1 is definitely more than equal to more recognised brands. The Eastman DM1 is a real player's piece, the Rosewood laminate back and sides are complemented perfectly by the incredible Sitka Spruce top. All products have been highly regarded by players and used everywhere from homes to major concert stages internationally.Hand crafted by a small team of luthiers, Eastman Guitars deliver incredible quality at a much lower price point than their comparable rival brands. It was only logical that Eastman continued to branch out into the mandolin family of instruments, various electric guitars and flat-top acoustic guitars. Rapidly Eastman was established as an extremely high-quality- high-value, affordable archtop guitar manufacturer. The results exceeded expectations and became an immediate hit among players of all levels. Numerous vintage models were studied and the first guitars were built by the most gifted luthiers at the shop. Following the same good practices established by the violin shop, a studied approach was applied to the archtop guitar. Eastman Strings had been accepted as high-quality handcrafted instruments, so Mr Ni identified the need for hand-crafted archtop guitars at an affordable price. Thanks to Eastman Strings, string players today have advantages unknown to earlier generations: quality instruments, bows, and cases available worldwide at affordable prices. Chisels, knives, gouges, and scrapers, in the hands of outstandingly gifted craftspeople, are the primary tools used to create these modern instruments and bows, using centuries-old methods. They have virtually no power tools aside from the band saws used to cut out the necks and the outlines of the tops and backs of instruments. Today, the instrument and bow-making workshops of Eastman Strings operate in precisely the same manner as late 19th-century European workshops. In both workshops, master makers train and oversee talented woodworkers to create some of the world’s finest student, step-up, and professional instruments and bows. In the short time since this workshop was founded, the reputation of Eastman Strings’ instruments for tonal quality and craftsmanship excellence has become a worldwide standard.Īfter establishing the instrument-making workshop, Qian Ni went on to found a bow-making workshop based on the same principles. With their help, he established a large master violin workshop devoted to the handcrafting of instruments-one of the first the world had known since the first half of the 20th century. Mr Ni hired a group of established master violinmakers. In the beginning, he and his two musician colleagues bought instruments from Western-trained violin makers from their home town in China, but before long, they saw that a different approach was needed. In 1992, Qian Ni, who had come to the United States from China to study music, founded Eastman Strings.
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