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Fred Kopo, luthier
Since 1988, several hundred instruments have left the workshop. Numerous tailor-made creations, and some “bestsellers” like the Yalta, of which nearly 50 examples have been produced to date. As many guitars as basses, lots of electrics and electro, but more and more acoustics over the years, and always a certain number of other instruments such as the violin or the electric double bass.
The spirit of our acoustic guitars
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Acoustics and research to optimize sound qualities are the basis of design and innovations.
From the headstock to the bridge, including the vents, the principle of interlocking the neck, are all components designed according to each other. The optimal goal sought is for the finished instrument to appear obvious, almost classic, despite a resolutely contemporary line.
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The artists
Matthieu chedid
Ouessant baritone 7 strings
Fan fretting
I have been going to meet Matthieu for several years to have him try a guitar, when the opportunity presents itself, and I have the pleasure of having convinced him, in 2016, for a 7-string Ouessant that you will see soon on stage, I hope!!
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Guitare dorée de Matthieu Chédid - Interview luthier Fred Pons (Kopo Guitars)
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Fred Kopo nous présente la Ouessant Fraxinus Kopo
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NAISSANCE D'UNE GUITARE D'EXCEPTION #3
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KOPO DUBLIN NUDE - Une guitare d'exception #2
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The catalog
Ouessant Models
The Ouessant model was created in 2005 as a 16" Jumbo guitar in a medium format, very comfortable to play.
Designed from the start to be made from non-tropical wood, such as maple, ash, cormier, walnut, for the body, since 2016, we have developed an eco-composite based on linen fiber. We call this composite the K.L.A.S! Read more about KLAS ...
Dublin Models
Dublin Models
The Dublin Guitar, a more recent version in my range, is a 14" parlor model, quite close to the 00 Martin redesigned to my taste.
The comparison to the Martin stops there, the characteristics and the manufacturing concept being those of the Ouessant, the type of enclosure, the open head, access to the truss-rod adjustment, the side vent, the use of non-tropical wood or Klas for the body, and I offer the same top options, spruce, red-cedar or sitka, as well as the same bracing possibilities, always pre-stressed, fan-shaped, Lattice or Spider 2.
Acoustic Steel String Models
My main models of steel string acoustic guitars are the Ouessant and the Dublin, but I regularly design other models, in other formats at the request of certain customers.
My desire to return to the use of non-tropical woods is not new, starting with the awareness that we can use our regional woods such as:
Ash, corm, walnut, among others, are regional woods which offer very interesting qualities for the body of the guitar, in density, dynamics, elasticity, as long as they are used in the right thicknesses.
My soundboards are made of Jura or Dolomite spruce, or red cedar, from Canada and if possible from Central Europe. I sometimes also offer sitka.
Linen fiber composite, Klas. (Kopo Linen Acoustic Solution)
The use of composite in guitars is also a long-standing practice, but I wanted to move away from the too frequent use of carbon, which is very unecological in all respects – Linen fiber constitutes a real, natural, warm alternative. , and offers enough mechanical qualities for a guitar.
Concept – With the same design as the acoustic versions built in wood, the body is laminated in bio-composites, linen fabric and resin selected for its mechanical behavior.
We call this composite the K.L.A.S! Read more about KLAS ...
Nylon and archtop guitars
Bass
Semi-Acoustic Guitars
Electric Guitars
The Double Basses,
Violins, Cellos
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