Just in at Cedar Rock is this brand new Dontcho Ivanov Grand Salon. The Grand Salon is his version of the OMC body style, but with his very own flavor. Featuring a beautiful set of African Blackwood back and sides, and a picture perfect Swiss Moon Spruce top. Big and bold bass response with a midrange that would cut through steel. A very balance tone across all spectrums, and very wide dynamic range from a whisper to a roar! 

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Dontcho Ivanov is a treasure in the Canadian lutherie world. Having learned from many great builders and built guitars of many styles it is safe to say he knows exactly what he is doing. The tone of his two OM’s we have had here is very exact and full-sounding, there is a fundamental “wall of sound” that you experience while playing his guitars that gives you the sense that any style of music is possible. The soundboard on this guitar has energetic, bold treble strings and matureness in the low midrange, making it a pure delight for fingerstyle – feels wide awake. The voicing  Dontcho achieves with the Sinker Cedar top is extremely impressive – we’ll let you hear for yourself, though. It is is in mint condition and comes with a Visesnut premier flight case. 

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We are very excited here at Cedar Rock to have our first Dontcho Ivanov guitar in.  It features a stunning set of Brazilian Rosewood for the back and sides, and a Sinker Cedar top. I met Dontcho this year at the Woodstock guitar festival in New York. I knew as soon as I played this guitar for a few minutes that Dontcho was a very special luthier. And such a great person, as we hit it off instantly. This guitar is ultra responsive with sustain for days. The string separation is second to none. This is a lifetime keeper guitar.
More about the luthier :

Dontcho Ivanov is a Montreal-based luthier. He studying classical guitar at the age of 14 in Bulgaria and has since devoted his life to music. After a three-year stay in France where he continued to perfect his art, he came to Montreal, Canada to complete his BA in classical guitar interpretation at UQAM.

His passion for the guitar and his continuous curiosity about how the instrument is built naturally led him to the world of lutherie. In 2010 he enrolled in the Guitar Bruand School, where he learned to build classical and flamenco guitars in the Spanish tradition with Hugues Lefort, and steel-string guitars in the California style with Mario Beauregard.

In 2013, Dontcho Ivanov received the first prize of excellence from Bruand, and was chosen to represent the school at the Healdsburg Guitar Festival in California. He has since exhibited his work at the Ottawa Guitar Show, the Santa Barbara Acoustic Instrument Celebration, the Holy Grail Guitar Show in Berlin, the Vancouver International Guitar Festival, the Montreal Sonore Festival, the Quebec International Guitar Show, and more recently at the Osaka Sound Messe and the Tokyo Handcraft Guitar Festival in Japan.. His instruments show a remarkably high quality of acoustic response and craftsmanship.

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