Hear My Guitars

Carlos Barbosa-Lima has been regarded as one of the world's most versatile and creative acoustic guitarists for 40+ years. You can learn more about him by visiting his web site.

I've chosen two pieces from his 2006 CD entitled "Carioca", on which Carlos is playing one of my cedar top guitars. "Carioca" is a beautiful, slower performance which provides you the opportunity to hear the subtle nuances of this fine guitar. "Um A Zero" is an up-tempo tune which showcases the dynamics of his guitar (not to mention Carlos' virtuostic playing).

These pieces are of course copyrighted, and you may use them for your own personal listening pleasure only. If you would like to hear more of Carlos and my guitars, his recordings are available on the Zoho Music label. You can find a list of distributors on their web site, www.zohomusic.com.

This next example is Travis Johnson playing one of my spruce tops, in a Bryan Johanson composition entitled Boppin'.

Travis is an exceptionally talented player. His many accomplishments include winning first prize in GFA's national youth competition, and being a semi-finalist in the Parkening international guitar competition.

This piece was commisioned from Bryan Johanson. You can learn more about Bryan by visiting his web site here.

Travis' guitar is an Indian rosewood - spruce top with a 640mm scale, which he has been playing for three years.

You can click on Travis' photograph to hear the piece, which is an MP3 about 8MB in size. If you're using a dial-up internet connection, you can access a smaller file (about 4MB) with slightly reduced audio quality here.

This music and the performance is copyrighted by Travis Johnson and Bryan Johanson. You may use it for your own personal listening only. Please contact Travis or Bryan if you wish to use the music for commercial purposes.

Hear the sound of the hot guitar trio Triada, playing three of my spruce topped instruments! Triada consists of three brothers from Bulgaria -- Nikola, Petar and Vasil Chekardzhikov.

This clip comes from a live performance at CSU Fullerton in May of 2006 where the group is performing "Toccata".

Please take a minute to visit their web site here.

The guitars played by the group on this piece are three extremely well matched spruce tops with the standard 650mm scale length. This composition has a lot of dynamic range so you can hear how my guitars perform over a wide range of volume levels.

Click on the photograph to hear or download the piece, which is an MP3 about 4MB in size. If you're using a dial-up internet connection, you can access a smaller file (about 2.5MB) with slightly reduced audio quality here.

This music and the performance is copyrighted by Triada. You may use it for your own personal listening only. Please contact the group if you wish to use the music for commercial purposes.