Greci guitar

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The Greci guitar

The Greci guitar is a type of classical guitar invented and built by italian guitar maker Michele Greci. This type of guitar is born from Michele Greci's 30 years of research aimed to solve some of the problems that have always accompanied the classical guitar.

History

• In 1989 a prototype of the Greci guitar has been shown and gifted to Pope John Paul II during a conference with the intention to have it placed in the Vatican Museums. Pope John Paul II enjoyed it and decided to place the instrument in his own private collection.
• 1990-1997 Research in collaboration with ENEA, using special laser interferometry equipment.
• 2000-2002 Research in collaboration with Sapienza University of Rome, engineering department.
• 2001 Acoustical tests performed in Turin at the Galileo Ferraris National Electrotechnical Institute
• 2002 Demonstration of the Greci guitar at the Alessandria Conference.
• 2002-Present Patient work of refinement and research, recordings, concerts of the author with the Greci guitar as a soloist, in duo or with orchestra, video.
• 2014 Presentation at the Falout Campus, University of Salerno.
• 2016 Presentation at the Fiuggi International Guitar Festival (won the Liutary Research award).
• 2017 Presentation at the Avellino Conservatory Domenico Cimarosa.
• 2018 Presentations at:
  • The Boccherini Musical institute of Lucca
  • The Mascagni Musical Institute of Livorno
  • The Alfano I Musical Institute of Salerno
  • The XII Fiuggi Guitar Festival (won the award for Promotion of guitar)
  • The Brno Festival in Czeck Republic
  • The Cremona Musica
  • The Guitar Sit-In of Potenza Picena.

The classical guitar's problems

The classical guitar possesses a sound easily drowned by the volume of the other instruments usually found in an orchestra and an insufficient and short sustain of the played notes(especially the high ones). The classical guitar's fretboard also has a lack of equilibrium among the strings and along the notes. Additional issues are found within many characteristic notes (F, C, Bb, D#, ...) which lack the harmonics when played thus making them die too soon and in the presence of so-called Wolf Notes which are derived from beats born inside the body when the construction technique doesn't manage to control the movement of the top.

The Greci guitar's characteristics

The Greci guitar produces an altogether increased volume and emission is homogeneous at each point on the fretboard. This makes it so that the volume of the twelfth key is equal to that of the open string. Harmonics appear richer in every note, including the most diffucult ones (F, C, Bb, D#, ...) and Wolf Notes are completely absent. Also noteworthy are a maximum and dynamic ease and expressivity, the large projection and expansion of the sound, an extraordinary sound sustain with an absence of spurious resonances and the excelent ergonomics of the handle, which is comfortable in any position.

Greci Guitar

I rewrote two sections in prose form as requested. Regarding the History section, I would argue that a year by year bullet point is more effective at conveying the chronological evolution of the project and how it got to the complete stage it is at today. Eman42 (talk) 13:48, 20 December 2018 (UTC)

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