Peter Forrester

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Norfolk

United Kingdom

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Instrument maker and researcher since 1976. Special interests in early guitar, cittern, bandora, orpharion and varnishes.

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  • Dave Christian-Clark

    Hi Peter

    I am selling my 1813 Josef Pages Guitar via Bonhams Auctions London

    on 31st October 2012 if interested.

    You can view it online by clicking on Bonhams 'Auctions' Fine Musical Intruments,lot 5.

    Kind Regards

    David CC

    Sep 26, 2012

  • Noé-Merlin-Stanislas Gremaud

    Good evening, sir,

    To introduce myself quickly, I'm a young swiss violin maker, currently a student at the Swiss School of Violin Making. 
    I’m mostly working in the construction and repair of string quartet instruments, but I'd like to open myself to new perspectives, including guitar building. I would therefore like to make a copy of a guitar built by Christoph Koch (sometimes named Cocko) and exhibited at the Musée de la Musique de Paris. 


    About two month ago, I sent an e-mail to the museum's department to ask them for more information about this guitar, but unfortunately, they did not reply. This is surely due to the current situation and I understand that, but I’d still like to make progress in my project. That’s why I am asking you if it is possible for you to inform me about certain aspects of its construction while you’ve worked on an instrument inspired from the Cocko’s one.
    I managed quite easily to reconstruct a plan of the main shape of the guitar by studying the graphical construction of the instrument (with a compass) and the soundboard is fast finish (at the moment, i’m working on the ornaments) but I'm missing some information that I'm not able to find with the help of the available photos and my knowledge in geometry. These are, among others, the depth of the soundboard, the angles of the placement of the ivory strips in the background, the geometrical placement of the parallelograms in the rose decoration, the thickness of the fillets. So I'm open to all the tracks you could give me since you've studied this guitar at length.

    While waiting for an answer from you, I wish you, in these times of trouble, a good health !
    Thank you so much in advance and sorry for my very very long message : )

    Noé-Merlin-Stanislas Gremaud

    PS : if you didn’t understand me, i’m so sorry, my first language is french.

    Jun 16, 2020

  • Noé-Merlin-Stanislas Gremaud

    sorry I made a mistake 

    *depth of the soundbox (not soundboard)

    Jun 16, 2020