After high school, his great passion for guitars motivated him to start his education as a guitar maker at the Lakewood Guitars workshop of Martin Seeliger in Giessen where he also met Michel Brück (a famous German double top luthier with more than 10 years waitlist) who later became an influence and good friend of Röthel’s. His participation at a Guitar Builders Workshop conducted by Josè Luis Romanillos 1992 in Cordoba Spain, was the main reason behind his decision to build Classical Guitar exclusively. He completed his training as a guitar maker and received his Masters Degree as Guitar Luthier in 1997.

In addition to building, he has taken on numerous restoration projects and has established connection with many worldclass guitar collectors. These restoration projects has give him huge opportunities to inspect closely great guitars of the old masters such as Manuel Ramirez, Vicente Arias, Domingo Esteso, Hermann Hauser, etc. Furthermore, he has developed his own construction concepts based on these great guitars. Jochen Röthel adopt their lightweight construction and low body resonance (around E / F on his latest guitar). Now he is recognised as one of very few luthier in the world that can build with very low body resonance (and powerful sound), yet doesn’t have any problem with balance (low resonance guitar usually have balance problem – many wolf notes / weak notes become obvious in various spots). As a result of his special construction technique, Röthel guitars has deep / dark / mysterious sound character, at the same time with great power and balance like we often found in modern concert guitars.

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