1980. Label signed and dated. Stamped on the inside back and on the heel slipper.
Spanish cypress with good, straight grain on both back and sides. Very pleasing in appearance.
European spruce with regular, quite close grain.
Traditional rosewood peg-head, with the well-renowned head-crest carving and with the Gerundino stamp on the back.
665mm
54mm
The condition is very good, with no cracks, repairs or repolishing and only minor playing marks. There is a tool-slip flaw in the top by the side of the fingerboard - from when new. For its nearly 30 years of age, this is a performance-quality Gerundino in well-cared-for condition.
An excellent example from a player who bought it directly from the maker and used it for years regularly in professional dance accompaniment before stopping that due to life's other pressures. From the mid-70's and early 80's, a period that so many people consider to be when many of the finest Gerundino's were produced, it has a rasping, penetrating, very flamenco sound character and very low, easy action.
Gerundino Fernandez - Click here to find out more about this maker
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