Petersen guitars

[Udo Dolz]

I have a Harald Petersen model A concert guitar, bought new in 1973. I
believe he was working in the North West of England at that time. It has a
very sweet sound, being mahogony and cedar. Does anyone out there use a
Petersen guitar, or know anything about them? Is Harald Petersen still
making instruments?

Udo

[Phil Read]

I have owned a number of Petersen guitars. There were three models A, B, and
C
C was the best. Both of mine were C models with one of them having a paper
thin front with a woody hollow sound. The other wasn't so thin and had a
better sound. Both were Rosewood and spruce. I have seen a number of B models
with Indian rosewood if I remember correctly. All of the ones I owned were
well made with an easy action. He has been dead for some time but I have no
date.
Phil Read

[Rick Falkiner]

Udo,

I think Peterson has passed away, but he made two models, the model A with
Maple back and sides and the more expensive model C with rosewood back and
sides, they are great sounding guitars. I have a model "A" for sale $1,800
US.
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[BCC]

Udo Dolz <Udo....@btinternet.com> wrote in message
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> I have a Harald Petersen model A concert guitar, bought new in 1973. I
> believe he was working in the North West of England at that time. It has a
> very sweet sound, being mahogony and cedar. Does anyone out there use a
> Petersen guitar, or know anything about them? Is Harald Petersen still
> making instruments?
>
> Udo
>

> He's dead now I think. My teacher had one and it was very easy to play
but had very little sound.

[Majjick]

Udo Dolz wrote:

> I have a Harald Petersen model A concert guitar, bought new in 1973. I
> believe he was working in the North West of England at that time. It has a
> very sweet sound, being mahogony and cedar. Does anyone out there use a
> Petersen guitar, or know anything about them? Is Harald Petersen still
> making instruments?
>
> Udo

My first guitar was a Petersen A (the lowest model, the C being the best). A
Danish luthier, Petersen was commissioned by Len Williams (Johns father) to
make guitars for the Spanish Centre, which he opened in London in the late
50's.

I believe Petersen died in the 70's -- I seem to remember someone telling me it
was from cancer, he having been a heavy smoker.

Paul Magnussen

[tamar...@gmail.com]

On Saturday, 28 August 1999 09:00:00 UTC+2, Udo Dolz wrote:
> I have a Harald Petersen model A concert guitar, bought new in 1973. I
> believe he was working in the North West of England at that time. It has a
> very sweet sound, being mahogony and cedar. Does anyone out there use a
> Petersen guitar, or know anything about them? Is Harald Petersen still
> making instruments?
>
> Udo

I have an A model, bought in the North West of England in 1975 ish. It still plays well and has a wonderful sound. At the time I bought it, I knew it came from the Lake District, which was close by. Mine must have been made by his sons, who took over the business. I found this on the net, after searching for more information about my guitar. Someone had posted this via Danish Wikipedia:

Harold Petersen ( 22 March 1910 - 3 May 1969 ) is an internationally known Danish guitar builder . Harold Petersen was based primarily classical guitars , but also jazz guitars and other stringed instruments . Harald Petersen sold his instruments through music business Marno Sørensen before in 1950 traveled to England , where his wife came. There came a great time in his career when he came in contact with Len Williams , who had "Spanish Guitar Centre" in London . Len Williams, father of the famous English classical guitar player John Williams , who also played a memorial concert for Harold Petersen after his death. Guitars from this period have printed on the label: "suns agent, spanish guitar centers, London England." This distrubition ended but before Harald Petersen's death. Harald Petersen did finally 3 models called respectively. A, B and C. In contrast to usage in classical guitars, the C model is the finest. The difference consisted in the choice of materials and details, eg. was rosette more complicated in the C model, and the A-model had a simpler head a B and C models. After Harald Petersen's death took over his sons, Tom and Peter shop until they closed it in 1983 . The sons' time they changed the label from "Harold Petersen" to "Petersen" with the exception of the first guitar from his father's death, when his sons signed on his father's label. Harold Petersen was in his time in Denmark, including sold a jazz guitar with Svend Asmussen and in England, including Paul McCartney played on Petersen's guitars.

[Curmudgeon]

On Saturday, August 28, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-4, Udo Dolz wrote:
> I have a Harald Petersen model A concert guitar, bought new in 1973. I
> believe he was working in the North West of England at that time. It has a
> very sweet sound, being mahogony and cedar. Does anyone out there use a
> Petersen guitar, or know anything about them? Is Harald Petersen still
> making instruments?
>
> Udo

Isn't it amazing how these historical threads come back to life?

[Andrew Schulman]

On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 5:48:26 PM UTC-4, Curmudgeon wrote:
> Isn't it amazing how these historical threads come back to life?

No.

Warm regards,

Andrew