True Colours

Three Grand Auditorium models from the Czech Republic manufacturer's catalogue, with price points varying from entry level to top end. What's the difference? Let's find out...

- David Mead

FURCH VIOLET MASTER’S CHOICE GC-SM €1,405
FURCH YELLOW DELUXE GC-SR €3,192
FURCH RED DELUXE GC-SR €5,075
CONTACT Furch Guitars PHONE [phone] WEB www.furchguitars.com 

After last month’s deep dive into the goings-on at Furch, which saw editor Jamie head off to Eastern Europe to visit the company’s workshops, we thought it would be a grand idea to supplement that feature with a look at a trio of the company’s guitars.

The rumble that the Czech company began years ago when its instruments first began finding their way into the UK’s acoustic fraternity has since become something of a roar. We’ve had our eyes on Furch’s guitars for many moons and have taken every opportunity to pick one up whenever possible. Quality across the board has always been very high and remarkably consistent, and we’ve tipped them as a bigname-in-waiting in the acoustic world.

If you click over to the Furch website, you’ll see the catalogue is large and colourful – and quite literally so, as Furch names its ranges after colours. Thinking how to best present a cross-section of the wares it offers, we settled upon the idea of taking a single body shape – the Grand Auditorium – and looking at models from three different price-brackets.