Victor Bedikian

Who is Victor Bedikian?

Victor Bedikian, is a guitar maker

Victor Bedikian worked with Robert Bouchet. Dominique Field, a contemporary concert guitar maker appreciated Victor Bedikian's guitars. Victor conserved Bouchet's working notes and drawings in his workshop.

Victor Bedikian's art comes from the 19th Century Spanish creator of the modern guitar, Antonio Torres, with Robert Bouchet, who took his inspiration from Torres, serving as the bridge. Victor Bedikian showed his first guitar to Bouchet in 1965 and was encouraged by Robert Bouchet teaching him his own methods of construction. That began a close friendship and association that lasted until Bouchet's demise. At first the young Bedikian made regular visits to Bouchet's workshop to show him his latest instruments, but during the years 1977 to 1982 it was Bouchet who went to visit Victor by regularly passing by his workshop in Paris. Victor Bedikian builds his guitars with the same method as Bouchet with the bracing very much influenced by Bouchet's system. Bedikian made a limited number of guitars in his lifetime, and is now retired.