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Peter Tsiorba

Tsiorba Guitars

Growing up in Uzbekistan, nineteen-year GAL member Peter Tsiorba attended a music school studying piano. In the 1990s, an encounter with a fine but battered Manuel Contreras flamenco guitar awakened his desire to make a guitar. Today he is a full-time luthier focusing on building classical and flamenco guitars, as well as the restoration and repair of modern and antique instruments. In his shop you can always catch the aromas of freshly planed wood, shellac, and hide glue.

▪ bio current as of 2023

In Memoriam: George A. Smith

2023
AL#150 p.65               
Peter Tsiorba                                                                                           

▪ George Smith was one of that rare breed: A self-starter guitar maker before the American Lutherie Boom. Here’s three fond remembrances by people who were glad to have known him well.

Review: Martinez’ 34 Classical Guitars in Life Size

2019
AL#136 p.66               
Peter Tsiorba                                                                                           

▪ It’s called a book, but the format is a box of thirty-four folded sheets, each one a life-size photo poster of a famous guitar. Our reviewer takes a close look. Mentions Antonio Torres.

Meet the Maker: Peter Tsiorba

2017
AL#131 p.20               
January Williams   Peter Tsiorba                                                                                       

▪ Peter Tsiorba began his working life as a teenager making garments in a semi-legit Soviet cooperative. Today he’s a family man and a maker of classical guitars in the lutherie Mecca of Portland, Oregon.