About

Orhan Ümmetler was born in İstanbul in 1975. He was accepted to Industrial Vocational High School Woodworking Machine Model Department. During his education, he made modeling of industrial machinery by using solid wood in his workshop. 

He stepped into the world of guitar by taking classical guitar lessons in 1994. He started guitar music with Ali Sezgin. Between 1999 and 2003, he studied flamenco guitar and notation at Pera Fine Arts. In 2006, he opened his first workshop in Nicosia and started to work as a guitar maker.

Since 2013, he has participated in Lycia, Bilkent University, Uludag University, Near East University, Eastern Mediterranean University and International Istanbul Guitar Festivals. Between the years of 2014-2018, he gave seminars in Near East University and Eastern Mediterranean University in International Istanbul Classical Guitar Festivals. ,

In 2015, he had the opportunity to work with Andrea Tacchi, guitar maker master, in his workshop in Florence, Italy. As a result of these studies, he added new steps to his career and started making Hommage series of "Robert Bouchet Paris" guitars. Between 2015-2016, he gave lectures about instrument maintenance and repair at Istanbul University State Conservatory. Currently Orhan Ümmetler continues his guitar productions in his atelier in İstanbul.

In the construction of his guitars he employs precious woods of the highest quality where some of them has nearly fifty year old. He builds his guitars completely with traditional method  and within this design He uses modern artistic approach. For this reason He trys to reflect the impressions of  past and future on his guitars. To maintain the old school, He applys traditional glueing and polishing methods such as animal hide glue, pumice stone and french polishing with shellac to the whole surface of the guitar.