Visita a Rudy's New York parte 1/7

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@gumersindocid 10 жыл бұрын

Muy emosionante. Osvaldo Pensa (el papá de Rudy) tenía un instituto en Quilmes, IDEA, donde empecé hace 46 años, a los cuatro, en jardín de infantes, a amar la música. Fue mi primer maestro

@mmmanutd 5 жыл бұрын

Que violas más lindas, me encantó la que es onda así fileteada.

@germanpaez2117 10 жыл бұрын

No puedo creer lo que estoy viendo ...

@sarahrogerson1218 3 жыл бұрын

The "Suhr Standard Carve Top Knopfler" is the true guitar owned by Mark Knopfler NOT the Pensa. The Suhr was Mark Knoplfer's main guitars from 1988 onwards, then called the Pensa Surh. HOWEVER Rudy Pensa was not and is NOT a guitar builder. Hes just a business man having others to build his guitars paying them a fraction and charging a big premium. The Surh guitars are all built in house under John Suhrs supervision with him Fretting all the guitars. His instruments are a thing of beautify. Pensa has some lovely guitars built but he doesn't design or build guitars. Master builder John Suhr designed and built the instrument back in 88 whilst working for Rudy Pensa in NY USA. Pensa hasn't been the same without John Suhr who was the master builder behind the business Brief history of the guitar, Knopfler needed a guitar for gigging that would sound and play like his 58 Les Paul and his red Fender Stratocaster. It was becoming too much to take all his guitars on the road, some of which were priceless. MK needed a guitar that could give him the two very different sounds in one package. This is where his good friend Rudy Pensa came in. Rudy, a business man not a builder, had a little specialist guitar shop in NY USA where he employed master builder John Suhr. Pensa and Suhr would later team up around the time MK was looking for a new guitar. They became Pensa-Suhr. At the time John Suhr was building his own guitar and both Rudy and MK were so impressed that Rudy convinced Suhr to give it to MK for a set of gigs coming up. The Prince's Trust on 7th & 8th June 1988 and then the Mandela 70th birthday gig on the 11th June 88. Surh had very little time to finish off this guitar, it needed painting and MKs pickup specs fitting. The paint would have only just dried in time for the Prince's Trust gig. MK requested that the humbucker pickup, the large pickup next to the bridge to be mounted without any pickup holders (the plastic surrounds as seen on his Les Paul). He liked the colour of the EMG active pickups and thought the pickup holder would look messy. So Suhr had to mount this pickup from the rear of the guitar, a very unusual way of mounting pickups. If you look closely at MK's guitar you will see the two small fixings screws. The other issue John had was fitting the 5 position selection switch. The body was too slim to house it so John had to trim down the rear of the switch just enough for the rear control cover to cover it. One other request was the neck to be maple with a rosewood finger board, which John wasn't tooo keen on due to the body being mahogany like a Les Paul. Fender guitars don't usually use mahogany hence their use of maple necks. John believed, and is correct that the frequency emitted from the mahogany get cancelled out with Maple necks causing a damping of the sound. Hence why Suhr always offers the matching mahogany neck with his builds. It really does improve the sound. In 1991 Suhr and Pensa party company. Suhr had become in demand due to his skills and abilities in both the guitar and Amplifier world and wanted more control over the full building progress. He's since built some of the best guitars on the planet. Now labelled "Suhr" with this Knopfler Standard Carve top version being the jewal in the crown. Suhr re leaving Pensa "Steve Marchione was trained to replace me when I moved to CA to work with Bradshaw in the beginning of 91. Suhr was now able to have full control and the whole guitar build would now be in house, where as at Pensa they used a lot of outside help. Suhr would do all the delicate ct work but the rest was contracted out. Suhr wanted his customers to have the real deal. A lovely instrument and if you can ever get your hands on one be sure to buy it as it's a sure investment.