A member of the GAL since 1997, Rudolf Tomusic was born in 1943 in Zagreb, Croatia. An engine fitter by trade, he has built guitars since 1978, originally under the tutelage of Mijo Bockaj his “big teacher and friend.” (See Big Red Book of American Lutherie Volume One, p. 402.) He went on to study with Ernest Köröskeny, Helmut Hanika, Josip Krog, Dragan Musulin, Dieter Hopf, Mirko Hotko (Zagreb), and Carl Hermann Schäfer, alias ” Nicolaus Wolf.” At the music school of Wolfsburg he has taught musical instrument construction for adults for eight years. He has built a number of instruments and repaired many, in the process making about 150 drawings of various guitars. He does not build tamburas.

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