Schoenberg Guitars Stephan Bruton "Quartet" By: Randall Kramer 2010's - Video Demo

From the idea conceived by the late Stephen Bruton, designed by his friend Eric Schoenberg, and built by luthier Randall Kramer, the Schoenberg Quartet Stephen Bruton model brings together classic, pre-war guitar traditions, cutting edge luthiery technology, and the scientific method of Chladni plate resonant frequency tuning, which was used by nineteenth-century violin makers. In creating the Quartet body, Eric essentially reversed the process Martin used when it switched most of its models from neck/body joints at the 12th fret to necks with 14 frets clear of the body in the early 1930s. While Martin shortened the bodies and modified the upper bouts of 0, 00, 000, and dreadnought bodies, Eric took the 16-inch-wide 0000/M-style body (which wasn't introduced as a flattop model until the 1970s and has traditionally been a 14-fret design) and stretched it to give it an outline similar to a 12-fret 000, but with a slightly larger size. In the video demo Quartet includes a fairly