A connoiseur's guitar maker, Simon Ambridge crafts one of the most sublime, finest projecting, traditionally braced, musically refined classical guitars in the world today. About his lovely instruments Simon Ambridge writes:

"My classical guitars owe their inspiration to the instruments of Antonio de Torres, Santos Hernandez and Hermann Hauser I. By combining design elements from these three great masters with my own ideas, I produce a concert guitar which is traditional in style, lightly built and very responsive. I am aiming for a sound which is clear and focused across the whole spectrum and favor a slightly thicker soundboard with fairly light struts which I feel contributes to more efficient sound radiation and helps give an instrument character, widening its range of available colour."

We concur with all that Simon writes. The sound of his magnificent concert guitars is solid, round and focused with wonderful depth and harmonic complexity. Capable of projecting both impressive power and delicate nuance, reponsive to a wide range of color changes and attack, his instruments are beautifully balanced in every way. They are also remarkably devoid of extraneous harmonic noise: what you hear is each sparkling note and the accompanying silence surrounding that note. Finally, these musical instruments possess one of the loveliest, strongest, bell-like third strings we've heard in years. In sum, beautiful to look at, an inspiration to play, Simon Ambridge's individually handcrafted classical guitars represent a unique and wonderful contribution to the musical arts.

Concert artist Pablo Cohen who currently performs on a Simon Ambridge guitar writes: "For more than thirty years, I have had the opportunity to perform with guitars made by some of the best known makers from South America, France, Spain, and the U.S.A. It is from this perspective that I can say Simon Ambridge ranks among the very best guitar makers in the world."

Materials: Book matched Brazilian sides and back, thirty year old European spruce soundboard, custom hand carved headstock motif, perfectly executed "V" graft head to neck joint, custom satine bindings, French polish of shellac finish,Rodgers precision tuning machine heads (the finest in the world) with engraved nickel silver sideplates and kidney shaped satine buttons, workmanship ranking with the finest in the world and master grade materials throughout compliment Ambridge's elegant traditional visual aesthetics, unusually comfortable neck and action set up, 650mm string length.