G a l l e r y
Violão de sete, choro 2024
This seven string guitar is made especially for choro music. It uses flat wound steel strings for all but the two first strings, which are nylon. Bass lines will stand out with more clarity and projection with steel strings. Woods are spruce top, Indian rosewood back and sides, ebony fingerboard and rosewood bridge. It has a very balanced sound.
Cavaquinho 4 2024
This is a cavaquinho in the Brazilian style with a cedar top, Indian rosewood sides and back, ebony fingerboard and rosewood bridge. It has a passive hand made pickup. I made the top very resonant so that it responds to the lightest attack.
Nordic Lyre 2023
This is a Bass Nordic Lyre inspired by tradition but yet pretty modern. The lyre is one of the oldest kinds of instrument and for a good reason - it sounds great! And it is relatively easy to get beautiful sounds out of it. This one is made of pine with a spruce soundboard. The strings are natural gut, which gives a warm and rich tone to the lyre.
Five string cavaquinho RW 2022
Another five string cavaco for my friend and colleague in the Netherlands. This one has the back and sides made of Indian Rosewood and a Cedar top.
Five string cavaquinho Elm 2022
This five string cavaquinho is made out of Finnish Elm wood. The top is spruce and the neck is brazilian cedar.
Seven string guitar 2022
This seven string classical guitar was a special build for me. It was the first guitar that I build in many years and it was for my best friend, a great guitar player. The details were planned with care and I used Elm wood as a theme throughout the guitar.
Bass Tagelharpa 2022
The tagelharpa, or jouhikko, is a very old instrument. It has become popular again due to its raw and earthy sound. It can create amazing atmospheres and take you to places you had forgotten existed.
Kantele 2021
These two Finnish kantele are of the traditional five string type. The Kantele is an ancient instrument imbued with mystical powers according to legend. These are made of Finnish elm.
The Electro Acoustic cavaquinho came about as an experiment to combine magnetic pickups with acoustic sound. The electric format also allows for more freedom with the design. It has both piezo and magnetic pickups and a resonating spruce top. The body and neck are cherry.
This is the fifth five string cavaquinho that I made. Body in Indian rosewood, top German spruce, neck Brazilian cedar and fretboard African ebony. Sound is warm and balanced.
This four stringed cavaquinho is already a classic of mine. Indian rosewood sides and back, Spruce top, Brazilian cedar neck and Ebony fretboard. Here with a traditional rosette.
These two Brazilian style bandolims were finished in February of 2020. Both use Western Red Cedar as topwood and Indian rosewood for the back and sides. The neck is Brazilian cedar with an ebony fretboard with 19 frets.
The DrumBox® is a completely new instrument. It is a percussion box that sounds like a drum set. While being a completely acoustic instrument the biggest innovation of the DrumBox is its amplification. Through simple passive electronics this instrument blows you away with the sounds it produces. Patent pending.
The Cavaquinho 4 is part of the new line of cavaquinhos that I make. Traditional construction with modern design guarantees the best results for a professional instrument of the highest quality. Top is spruce and back and sides Indian rosewood.
This Bandolim brasileiro is the first bandolim that I built. I wanted a bandolim with a warmer and fuller sound than other bandolins I had heard. The result is just amazing, everybody has loved it, myself included. Top is cedar and sides and back Indian rosewood. Traditional construction throughout.
The Cavaquinho de Cinco is a new kind of instrument. It has five strings, with an additional string on the bass side, giving it the range of the bandolim. This makes it able to play any melodies without transposing and gives a new colour to chords as well. Materials are traditional but with modern styling.
The Cavaquinho Novo is a result of years of developing. It has a more modern body shape but still lying well within traditional lines. The bridge is modern with accented symmetries. The neck and headstock are traditional. The top bracing is new as well.
These two cavaquinhos are top of the line instruments. They have Rosewood back and sides and spruce tops. The design is pear-shaped because of esthetical and practical considerations. For the rest they are conventional brazilian cavaquinhos.
This bass body is made to replace a body of a Warwick Corvette and is left handed. The design is mine and the body is made of Brazilian Cherry tinted black.
This started as an idea and ended up as a finished instrument. The Electrovaco is an electric cavaquinho with an Almuse handmade humbucker, Gotoh tuners, ebony fretboard and cherry body and contour. It sounds great and plays like a dream.
Electric cavaquinho
Electric cavaquinho
Electric cavaquinho
Electric cavaquinho
This cavaquinho was made in part using wood from an old cupboard found in the street in Lisbon. The design is new and I experimented with a lot of details. It sounds fantastic and plays great.
Cavaquinho moderno
Cavaquinho moderno
Cavaquinho moderno
Cavaquinho moderno
This is the third cavaquinho that I started in 2012. After having played the first for two years I made some slight changes to this one, making the sound subtler and fuller and increasing the playability.
Cavaquinho Classico 2012
This is the first of the three cavaquinhos I started on in 2012. The back and sides are made of Brazilian rosewood, the top is Finnish spruce, the neck is cedar and the fingerboard is ebony. The model is a classical brazilian cavaquinho.
Building cavaquinhos 2012
This series of photos shows a bit of the process of building three cavaquinhos. Two of them got finished on schedule and the third two years later because of breaking a side while bending.
Paul Reed Smith 2003
This Paul Reed Smith guitar was made for a left-handed guitarist friend of mine.
Telecaster 2002
I build this Telecaster while in luthiery school. It stood unplayed for 13 years but now I'm finally playing it after returning to the electric guitar.
Pandeiros
Here are a few pictures of the pandeiros we make with HP Percussion. For more info check www.haffnerperander.com.
