This Sergei de Jonge Steel String Guitar pairs a Sitka Spruce top with Padauk for the sides, back, head plate, backstrap and rosette. Built during 2018 in Chelsea Quebec, it is in very good, clean condition, and delivers a full, rich and complex sound. Like many guitars from the de Jonge shops, this model has a French Polish finish, providing protection to the woods with a minimal imposition on the guitar’s vibration.
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The 2008 de Jonge Jazz seen here is available on custom commission only and features an adjustable neck joint, Bearclaw lattice-braced Spruce top with teardrop soundholes, Brazilian Rosewood three-piece back and sides, and a French Polish finish. Sergei de Jonge has been building for many years, starting with his early work with Jean Larrivee in the Toronto area in the 1970’s.
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MORE →This de Jonge Standard Spruce and Sapele Steel String guitar with natural French Polish finish is dated to 2021. A lovely, new older stock de Jonge Standard steel string features a Sitka Spruce top with with Sapele (Entandrophragma cylindricum) for the rosette, sides, back and head plate.
Here we have a brand-new Sergei de Jonge classical guitar, featuring an elevated fingerboard, Torrefied Spruce top and Bolivian Rosewood sides and back! Sergei de Jonge has been building and teaching guitar building for many years and like a number of premiere Canadian builders, was one of Jean Larrivee’s early apprentices.
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MORE →Here we have another unusual instrument, a Sergei de Jonge 7 String Short Scale guitar with an Engelmann Spruce top and back and sides of Yew. Sergei de Jonge has been building for decades, beginning around 1969 in Toronto with Jean Larrivee, following an introduction by the late and celebrated guitar teacher Eli Kassner. After working with Pat Lister in Collingwood around 1971, de Jonge set up his own shop in Toronto in 1972 and has been building nad teaching on his own since then, aside from a one year break while living in Holland. Currently his shop is located in Chelsea, Quebec.
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MORE →This well used Sergei de Jonge Classical guitar was built during 1998 in de Jonge Toronto shop of Spruce and Indian Rosewood. Sergei de Jonge builds many excellent, professional grade instruments, and he also has taught many other builders. Some already accomplished builders take shorter sessions focusing on areas where de Jonge specializes, particularly French Polish finishing.
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