My name is Hartmut Hegewald.

I was born in Karlsruhe (Germany) in 1952 and grew up near Düsseldorf and Cologne (Germany). After graduating from High School, and lengthy music studies (violin and guitar), I combined my passion for music and my love of working with my hands by choosing the profession of a guitar maker.

After my apprenticeship and the completion of my master craftsman´s diploma, I have been working as a self employed master guitar maker since 1980.

Since the eighties I spent a lot of time improving acoustics of plucked instruments, before I concentrated on perfecting the classical guitar.

I was inspired by the old Spanish guitars from the days of Torres (1817 – 1892). Nowadays when I make my concert guitars, I apply the principles of construction of the Spanish guitar makers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

I live with my wife in Bönen, a small town situated between Sauerland, the Ruhr Valley and Münsterland (Germany).