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We are Russian manufacturing company Doff. Guitars & Russian-folk instruments

Conpany was founded in 2002 by a group of enthusiasts – they were crazy in love with guitars as much as gemologist loves precious stones and mathematician - abstractions. Someone sold that he or she had got, someone took the case-dough, and all together they bought the instruments which had not been stolen yet in a closed Lunacharsky factory. The guitars were of average quality, quite similar to the old Lunacharsky’s ones. Hereafter the crisis happened. In every crisis, someone dies and someone revives.

There was a question to our company - either we join to the united collective of lacquered guitars producers, which so successfully overran our country by China goods, or we start producing something, which has never been done in Russia before.

And for all of this it was necessary to create such models of instruments, at one glance of which our competitors have fallen away any desire to repeat or copy, and even try to do this.

At this time, the director of "Forest" found out the Zimmermann factory’s guitar of 1885. It was very small - about ¾ of modern standard. But how it sounded! And this guitar was not a master one! It was common factory guitar, like usual consumer goods. However, it was an amazing and almost unattainable level of sounding. Only putting high goals, you can achieve good results. Therefore, we decided to create such kind of guitars and to return to life that was lost in the XX century.

We have completely given up the plywood using. We returned to maple in guitar production. We no longer focus on the boring to all musicians westerns. And even we renamed the factory - we changed the name because of reason of previous associations with the old crafts. «D’OFF» appeared instead of "Forest", and instead of guitar layout - a real Russian guitar, which was completely changed structurally and visually.

We were not so self-confident to rely only on our own vision for a revitalized production. We studied social networks and began to ask opinions and advices there. We went to schools and colleges and consulted with the best teachers. Finally, we have worked for many years, and remodeled our instruments until we achieved excellent results.