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Barrsden Farm
Charlottesville, VA, 22911
United States

4349818448

Dammann Custom Instruments is a maker of fine stringed instruments. 

Based on a farm in Central Virginia, our shop is a partnership of a musician and a luthier. Using local woods and innovative ideas, we have developed unique takes on the traditional mandocello, guitar, and electric bass. 

Our instruments are hand crafted to be as beautiful to play as they are to look at

Comparing Instruments

 Comparison of Floating Bridge to Pinned Bridge on Mandocello

 Comparison of Sideport Model to Standard Model OM Guitairs

Our Sound Port (SP) model eliminates the front sound hole and replaces it with an enlarged side sound port. This allows the sound board to vibrate in an uninterrupted fashion as one piece. The top bracing can also be uninterrupted and the braces can be placed in a fashion that responds to the tonal requirements of the instrument uninfluenced by the spatial requirements of the sound hole. This design works wonderfully well with our double top and the fact that our neck and fingerboard are cantilevered the top of the instrument. The whole top vibrates as a sound board.

This video will compare our OM SP guitars. Both guitars are similar builds with minor changes in bracing and other options that make some powerful changes.