REAL Filipino Culture In CEBU! Family Heritage Guitar Factory

good morning guys welcome to another video on the channel today's a little bit different this video is going to be a you know it means something this video we're in Cebu right now and we know that the one thing about Cebu which I'm very interested in personally is that they make guitars they make incredible handmade acoustic guitars Cebu is known for it especially Mactan where we're staying right now to sponsor and a quick Fun Factory and the reason that is so well known for guitars is because in the Spanish colonial times the people here that needed air controller specs used after second to Mexico to get repaired but then the people that nice so today we're going over to Alegre guitar factory I think they know we're coming and we're going to check out how they make the guitars I don't get to play a few and have a little look around so onto the video thank you come on the video book to grab so I think we should go right now [Music] so we write to allegra guitar factory this place is awesome they're like spraying guitars outside a small kind of opening here and they've got some of the different types of wood here yeah we just met a guy who will introduce you to in a second I think you see has one more I do have one more fun fact it probably is one of many fun facts oh I'm pretty far are you gonna are you gonna glade discourses holy things are you gonna get it right this time I'm gonna get a ride George do you think here for the facts wrong but I say I'm afraid that's one of my like a document to a serious document you here may see really she needs to get her facts right now renamed in 1961 originally it was called Oakland village okay that was commissioned by the Spanish see see why mean fact-checking Lucy Spanish Spanish Friars that's my boys mr. Bay Commission's the townspeople and kind of cool them I think maybe that was like a whole new business fair okay focus are making all right let's go meet this guy he's gonna tell us about the word here a little bit basically with the guitars use different types of wood for different sounds similar to like the bracing here so all of these different shapes they all help to create a different kind of acoustic sound what was your name sorry I'm George we make youtube videos so we just wanted to like come in and this is unique to Cebu it's known for guitars yeah and you you play as well sorry about the wood so everyone we're just all so different sounds yeah so we used important words like seed are from Canada German screws angle misperception we use police Anderson tactical mission the most expensive issue from the Philippine would use charcoal use black ebony mango occasionally people like order them you make lineament but you yeah you can also where's the shop there's money alright so we can have a look at that afterwards oh nice cool so they've got the back three-tier and then the shop just next door over there very very cool I have no idea what all these tools are what all these I recognize this fretboard yeah it's very clever making guitars is like super complicated to get to get everything right yeah even once you have the guitar built setting up with the action which is how close the strings are to the fretboard the truss rods like there's so many micro adjustments on guitars even once it's built yeah it sing even like the inlays mother-of-pearl so some guitars are like here extra detail and all the issues a balloon show the fretboard is mother yeah really nice I love this down the middle nice Allegra's a family name so some family businesses so they write Jason was just telling us that they make 15 pieces a week here and different people work on different parts of the guitar so there's like so once you get your tie it's been handled by a few different people all handmade all made from words there's oh we were just in time tours just rocks up there we're ahead of the tour [Music] I'm gonna go and check out the store now I just bought an electric guitar but I still need an acoustic guitar I've no idea how I'd get this back to Manila I don't think we have I think it's a book like a whole extra being when you fly with guitars [Music] [Music] nice I've never made a guitar made from mango [Music] very nice [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] very nice 130 thousand thirty thousand pesos guitar it's very shiny [Music] what kind of price ranges do you go from here what's like the cheapest and the most expensive and the most expensive is 65 65 it feels really nice like the it's quite a thick neck but shape is pretty unique if you look at this I love this kind of binding this is one piece of wood Wow there's often often with guitars they use two different pieces of wood and put their glue them together in the middle this is one solid piece of wood here it's a maze incredible and this is an electric acoustic so you can plug this in you can do a open mic night well does it take it was made on 29th September this year Wow famous baby can see you guys on it's nice and still solid so it's still got good weight to it that's a very nice size this this is an upgraded woody woody would be if you if you're not a regular via the channel I've got a tiny guitar which I take it's not another six strings but this could be a nice little replace not replacement sorry woody a little uh little brother for woody or the family name here on the guitar on the headstock can we look at the expensive one mister just to see in the other room really big showroom have really big store and they send the temperature in here perfect conditions for the wood special one from Indian Indian rosewood it's beautiful really earlier natural color the wood you got the shell kind of passing through the middle just maple okay it's like natural color Wow stunning this feels lovely I love that there's a mother-of-pearl here yeah mother-of-pearl inlays as well but it feels special because you can see all the all the details lastly hue Wow I've never seen that never seen that on a guitar the way that goes around that's incredible [Music] ooh nice who's loud [Music] we tried plugging in [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] so coming along this street as we were driving here in the taxi we saw like a lot of different guitar stores ukulele stores is there a lot of competition yeah is it a problem or you have a good reputation here if I think it's a huge part of the culture it's a new families starting to make guitars like anything brand-new other other companies know so it's all traditional family businesses amazing so though there's been a party going on out here [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you know I've no idea to play this I don't play bass guitars I was kind of guessing sounded Oh Jason winter-like one more question so when the family business started nice to be seven years so was it obviously a lot smaller this was yeah this is like quite big really okay I was it just him making them on his iron and just like setting making make one sour about boss commercial yeah [Music] Wow so what what part the guitar gets built first is it like what's like the process you build the body first or the neck first the song wait yes yeah because we have a model here yeah okay so you need first the soundboard the bracings foot and post with the neck then followed by the side boy and you said the the most expensive one the expense one played was one and a half months to make that yeah yeah for the cheap ones how long this is in one week yeah right okay well you can see the different level of what if it's our and the quality the woods how much care goes into it and that's why that's why some people say people who don't know guitars they might look at two girls think that's cheap that's expensive but they look the same yeah this is why a lot more time goes into it it's the higher quality words and the finishing the detail the sound of the guitars with the design of the bracing and the acoustics Jason thank you so much really good to me thank you [Music] [Applause] [Applause] thank you so much watching this little video we wanted to whilst we were on our trip to Cebu making our usual vlogs and stuff if you haven't seen those videos they'll be either before after this video that's Ireland typing yeah that's really good exploring here but we didn't want to come and make a video today about the guitar industry in Cebu because is so well known for it and hopefully if some of you guys haven't been here and got to see like the factory and stuff for that hopefully is interesting for you to see that definitely interesting for me especially and to Lucy I'm gonna figure out a way one day to buy a guitar here and take it back to Manila thanks watching guys give it a thumbs up if you enjoyed it subscribe for our usual videos and leave a comment if you play guitar play an instrument if you've been here we'd love you to let us know we'll see you very soon [Music] [Applause] [Music]