In the normal course of events of buying and selling guitars, we occasionally come across some that are rare and so special that we wish to keep them for some time. This is therefore our small, permanent collection of instruments that are not currently for sale. We have some early ideas about having some CD recordings made using these instruments and perhaps arranging some recitals featuring them.
Manuel Hernandez y Victoriano Aguado of Madrid
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Year:
1963 - number 242.
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Body:
Rosewood - book matched but characteristically without centre strip.
Total weight 1480 grams. -
Front:
European Spruce with one of the well-recognised rosettes of the makers.
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Tuners:
Fustero originals.
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Scale:
65cm
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Neck Width:
51mm at the nut
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Condition:
This instrument is in outstanding original condition. All French polished and with negligible playing marks. It's a pity there is a very fine, untouched shrinkage crack along the edge of the centre seam strut between rosette and bridge.
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Comments:
A superb example of a Hernandez y Aguado made in the same year as one played extensively by Regino Sainz de la Maza. It was owned for decades by a female pupil of Eduardo Sainz de la Maza. The sound in this guitar is refined with a glassy, slightly austere character. It has been played very little and may well have never been fully played in. Its qualities are very subtle and not obvious to inexperienced players; not remarkably impressive at first but as you get to know it, it becomes more and more special - for example, the bass has remarkable sustain and focus - and when taken into a hall, the sound seems to expand into it. Such a rare guitar - and if anyone wanted to know what one looked like straight off the maker's bench, then this is very close to it.
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Head
Back
Angled
Rosette
