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Professional guitarmaker, inlaying of musical instruments, a member of
"The Creative Union of the luthiers and Restorers of Musical Instruments". Making classical guitars, making inlay work and rosettes for the guitar and other musical instruments from natural wood Zhevlakov Dmitry.
For reference: Zhevlakov Dmitry is a guitarmaker from Tula (Russia), making music instruments for the professionals.
He's also engaged in Inlaid work of music instruments, small boxes, furniture and so on. Inlaid work, made up from the smallest squares of wood of different valuable kinds of wood, delights even people, who don't know this method of inlaid work. Hundreds of the smallest pieces of wood are combined on one canvas of his picture...
You will find out marvelous secrets of this guitarmaker, and modern magazines as:
- American journal-catalog "Stewart — McDonald's Guitar Shop Supply" (Catalogue ¹69/1 January, 1997, page 27);
- Journal "Guitarist" (¹1, 1998, page 2-3);
- Journal "Guitarist" (¹1, 1999, page 3). The last page of this journal (page 81 — the cover) introduces photographs of the guitarmaker Ignatenko Nikolaj Sergejevich and his guitar, which presents Dmitry's rosette;
- French journal "Maison Francaise" (Summer issue, 1997; page 15).
His works are famous not only in Russia, but also in other countries, namely, in Europe, America, Australia and so on...
Dmitry's rosettes are used on John Price guitars, that are sold all around the world, players such as Jorge Morel (Argentina), George Caballeros (Brazil), George Benson (New York), Ricardo Cobo (USA) and many more...
Dmitry Zhevlakov was born in 1973 in Tula (Russia) in the family of the guitarmaker Alexander Zhevlakov. Since childhood he helped his father to make classical guitars and inlay for music instruments. Dmitry's father was often visited by professional guitarists of Tula, famous not only in Tula, but also abroad (S. Rudnev — a guitar composer and a masterful guitarist, S. Pavlov and so on). All of them had instruments of Alexander Zhevlakov (Dmitry's father) and appeared on the stage playing on them. Dmitry grew up in atmosphere of guitar music and this fact formed his notion of the professional guitar's sound. In his family and in the circle of the father's friends the problems of the performer and the instrument were discussed. Alexander Zhevlakov worked on "Moscow Experimental Factory of Music Instrument". For his part, he was always helped by his father — Vasily Zhevlakov (Dmitry's grandfather), technologist and designer. He was developing an equipment for manufacture of guitars, guitar rosettes and mosaic, and also took part in making instruments.
In 1974 Dmitry's grandfather and father had developed a unique technology of the round frets from the hard metal. Afterwards, all the guitars made by Alexander Zhevlakov were just with such fret was as a minimum — 15-20 years.
Dmitry's father and grandfather had played a great part in strong up materials for the guitars. Resonance white spruce was stored up in 1974! At that time rose wood, walnut and rock maple were stored up. Now Dmitry makes instruments just from these materials with the assurance of their quality.
After his father's death in 1992, when he have already got musical education on class of clarinet and percussion instruments in "Tula Dargomizsky Musical College", he continues business which his father and grandfather began. Expert his grandfather, the guitarmaker from Moscow Nikolaj Andrejev becomes his teacher, he (N. Andrejev) have won "The all — Russian Competition among the Guitarmaker" in 1998. Mainly, the majority of the guitars at that competition already with the inlay and rosettes of Dmitry Zhevlakov, as he has already mastered the technology mosaic at that time, and has already began to perfect it, basing on the pieces of advice of the guitarmakers and also on his own notion about the design and quality of rosettes for guitars. In 1998 S. Rudnev — a professional performer, who plays on the classical guitar and who has played many guitars of different guitarmakers, talks with Dmitry about the problem of fret of the fingerboard, which differed from the standard and generally accepted marking, where was considered: difference of string material, diameter of the strings and the other particular features of the instrument. According to this technology especially for S. Rudnev the instrument was made.
In the book "Sergei Rudnev: Russian Folk Songs for Classical Guitar" (Edition Orphee / The Russian Collection, volume 3), published in 1994 in U.S.A. (Copyright © 1994 Editions Orphee, Inc., Columbus, OH, 43215 International Copyright Secured. Made in U.S.A. All Right Reserved) and gifted by the professional musician — guitarist Sergey Rudnev to the Dmitry's family, under the photograph of author S. Rudnev are such lines:
"To my good friends, to the Zhevlakov's family — to my first helpers in all my matters — as a keepsake!!! On this guitar for the first time the Russian music in author's performance sounded! From the author... /there's a signature of Sergej Rudnev below/".
Now Dmitry Zhevlakov is a member of "The Creative Union of the Master — painters and Restorers of Music Instruments". Dmitry works on acoustics of guitar, creates his charts of the upper sounding board's design. Parallel to this, he works with mosaic in its broad application. This is an applied art: furniture, small boxes and so on... |
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