Brett Charles Barrett

I was born in Skipton, North Yorkshire in 1965. I first started to play the guitar aged 13. I then went onto study music at Harrogate School of Music and Arts aged 16, where I was taught by Peter Newsome and Mark Stockall.

My first introduction to guitar making was by luthier and jazz guitarist Charlie Crabtree who showed me how to make my first guitar to go to music school with, because at the time I could not afford to buy a quality instrument and I needed one and the only way for me to get one was make my own. 

I became very good friends with Robin Pearson and Kate Dickinson of the Spanish Guitar Centre in Nottingham along with also meeting Luthier Kenneth Robert's who was making guitars for Robin Pearson. I wasn't interested in becoming a maker of guitars because I wanted to be a concert guitarist. I had a book on guitar making which was by Stanley Doubtfire  I read and studied this book for years, and just from a point of interest I kept playing the guitar on the concert scene until the age of 21 years old, I  then  had a long break from the guitar, only playing occasionally.

When my father died in 2007 it motivated me to start playing the guitar again. It was  then that I also started making Spanish classical guitars. I make my guitars the traditional way following the method of Antonio de Torres & Jose L Romanillos, I  loved  the Romanillos guitar sound,  Julian Bream played a guitar made by him and the rosette of Romanillos I would never forget.

My guitars are now played by the Spanish guitarist Paco Seco & have been performed on in Concerts by Alan Brinley Shaw, Norway's Christina Sandsengen, Thu Le, Christian Saggese and Italy's Andrea Dieci, who are all top concert guitarists and have now become good friends of mine. My aim is to improve the guitar each time I make one, and have more concert guitarists perform and enjoy them.

Featured in the Classical guitar magazine, August 2012

Featured in the Acoustic magazine, September 2012

Featured in the Yorkshire living magazine, September 2013

Featured in the Yorkshire Ridings magazine, February 2015

Featured in the Yorkshire Post magazine, December 2014

Featured in the Spanish guitar fair magazine, 

Performed & interviewed on Radio York.

Sponsored by RC strings. 

For more information or price for an instrument, please email Me at,  brett.barrett@live.co.uk

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