New York born luthier Daniel Hoffman has been making world-class stringed instruments for more than 30 years. From the Florentine scrolled guitars and state-of-the-art Amplified Acoustics he designed and built with ITHACA STRINGED INSTRUMENTS in the 90’s, to the intricately detailed replicas of Gasparo da Salo and Guarneri del Gesu
in the first decade of the new millenium, to his proportionally conceived works of today, Mr. Hoffman is clearly dedicated to the Art and Architecture of SOUND.
It was a November afternoon in 1994 when he chanced upon an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum Of Art in New York City …the Biddulph presentation of 25 Guarneri de Gesu masterpieces. “I walked in as an established guitarmaker and walked out, hours later, a complete novice…stunned that I had just been witness to the true craft of Lutherie as Art, completely human and gloriously organic …having nothing at all in common with the mechanical perfection I had come to believe in.”
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