Jacky Walraet started building guitars in 1987 while studying at the renowned Centre for Musical Instrument Building (Cmb) in Belgium. Having completed courses in guitar and violin making, he has been teaching at the Cmb since 1990. Jacky specializes in the making of archtop and steel string guitars and is a founding member of the LGR Project.
▪ bio current as of 2015
2015
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Jacky Walraet Brian Garston
▪ Everybody loves rosewood. Sounds great, looks great. In fact, it looks so great that we might be “hearing” its lovely, familiar deep color. Would non-tropical woods also make good-sounding guitars? And would they “sound” different if we took off the blindfold? To answer these questions, the Leonardo Guitar Research Project built a matched set of fifteen guitars and compared them under controlled conditions.