GFAtv: TY Zhang finds his DREAM GUITAR!

Xeno introduces a very special guest segment made by the brilliant classical guitarist and 2017 GFA ICAC Champion, TY Zhang. He shares the story, cast of characters, and ups & downs of how he found his dream guitar.
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[@gfavideo]

What guitar are you all currently playing?

[@christhabib]

I’m playing a beautiful cedar top made my Canadian Luthier Douglass Scott

[@DrJack3993]

Carsten Kobs spruce double top, Jim Redgate lattice bracing model and another one kept as a secret.

[@TengyueZhang]

Thank you Ryan and Xeno for inviting me to share my story!! I had a lot a lot of fun in making this video!! Go GFA!!

[@gfavideo]

We were so thrilled to have you on GFAtv again! Thanks for sharing your story!

[@stushiraz69]

TY thanks for sharing this amazing story. I was absolutely captivated from start to finish. I have watched many of your videos and your playing is simply mesmerising. Thanks for sharing your gift with the world!

[@Chanpanpapi]

Amazing video!! Should do more of these videos please!

[@sansumbrella]

I play a Luis Fernandez de Cordoba. He’s local to the DC area where I live and I was lucky to pick up his Torres style guitar early in the pandemic. Waiting for him to complete a set of double top guitars with arm rests and raised fretboard so I can get a modern style guitar, too!

[@gfavideo]

What a great combo that will be when you have both options! What are the woods of your Torres model vs. what will be on the double top?

[@sansumbrella]

Torres is a spruce top. The double will be cedar outside, balsa middle, spruce inside.

[@joepworther2284]

T Y : you're right in all of what you say, it's the best instrument one can have, only many guitarists dont know that ...

[@pablonegretesalazar6229]

Loved the video, very interesting Stuff...not only for guitarists but for Luthiers too. I play sometimes a Fernando Mazza and a Miguel Sandoval... Both lattice

[@macleod41069]

Never mind coffee and chocolate, try whiskey

[@soundknight]

JW uses normal tension strings too, I suspect that Smallman has tuned his instruments (and his sons in the art) for the Daddario EJ45

[@ivanguban7143]

Why you didn’t play it for us?

[@ΝίκοςΑργύρης-ω7υ]

Very interesting

[@themusiccovenant]

Guitar God

[@Fortheclassicalguitarist]

So what guitar does Xeno play...?

[@gfavideo]

That is a question a future episode will reveal!

[@soundknight]

I played my teachers Smallman. He bought it after staying with JW and trying all his guitars, it was an amazing instrument - but I didn't like it. The guitar did too much of the work, I felt like it didn't want me to play it, like it was a piece of furniture or something. It was a very weird sensation. It was then that I understood Wagyu I prefer a Fleta or Torres or a Hauser, the wood selection and craftmanship imparts more timbres character to the note. This is why a Torres will always make the best melody when compared to any other guitar.

[@gfavideo]

It's interesting to find out what guitars, what styles, and what woods work for what we each need (and prefer) as players!