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Making guitars with local wood allows the world to hear the sound from Chongqing

2022-08-31


  The studio is about 6 square meters. After the tools are piled up, there is only space left for one person to sit down. It is in this environment that You Xiaofei begins his dream-chasing journey. His dream is to make a perfect guitar to travel around the world, so that the world can hear the sound from Chongqing. After 10 years of research, You Xiaofei has changed from a layman to a well-known master figure in the luthier circle, and became the first Chinese luthier to join the American Guitar Luthiers Association (GAL). In 2014, You Xiaofei was awarded "Top Ten People Who Moved Chongqing".

Since 2005, You Xiaofei often stayed up late and worked more than 10 hours a day. When inspiration came at two or three in the middle of the night, he ran to the desk to design guitar graphics.

"As long as I'm in the studio, I'm very relaxed. If I don't work for two or three days, it's like two or three weeks have passed." You Xiaofei said that when he was working, he was alone, with a light, music and smoke. all of life.

After 10 years of research, You Xiaofei realized his dream. In 2011, his work was recognized by the Guitar Luthiers Association of America (GAL) as a member of the association.

Today, the unit price of guitars made by 34-year-old You Xiaofei has risen from the initial two or three thousand yuan to two or three thousand yuan, and the most expensive one is sold for 40,000 yuan. But he still maintains the rhythm of making up to three guitars in two months, does not hire workers, and has only one apprentice. "Finding workers can make more guitars, but it's not pure." You Xiaofei said that every guitar must be 100% made by himself.

In 2016, the World Handmade Guitar Exhibition will be held in the United States. You Xiaofei is going to bring a guitar made of local wood to the exhibition to let the world hear the voice from Chongqing.

Either don't do it, or do it professionally, this is the "rule" that You Xiaofei has set for himself since he was engaged in the piano-making industry. In his eyes, if you like it, you must persevere, and if you have a dream, you must work hard. Yu Xiaofei, who is crazy about the piano, uses a piano and a dream to let the world hear the voice from Chongqing.