Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

Bertrand Ligier of Connaux in southern France

• Year:

  2015 - number 46.

• Body:

  Pau Ferro (Machaerium scleroxylon) ; sometimes called Morado or Bolivian rosewood (though it is not a true rosewood). Very attractive tonewood timber, mainly straight-grained with some sapwood to the lower bout extremities. The mid-brown colour is similar to many rosewood boards. With double, fine line purfling and rosewood bindings.
  Body length:- 486 mm.
  Top bout:- 280 mm wide & 98 mm deep.
  Waist:- 236 mm wide.
  Bottom bout:- 370 mm wide & 97 mm deep.

• Front:

  European spruce - very well quarter-sawn, with extensive showing of medullary rays and some bearclaw figuring. The exquisite rosette is one of the most impressive and beautiful that I have seen. Rosewood bridge with bone-capped tie-block.

• Tuners:

  Nicolo Alessi - style 11 with Hauser-shaped side-plates with snakewood inlay and snakewood buttons

• Scale:

  65cm with 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard.

• Neck Width:

  52mm at the nut with 43.5 mm string spacing.

• Condition:

  New - All shellac french-polished.
  An extremely handsome and elegant instrument.

• Comments:

  Here is another fine instrument from Bertrand Ligier who is clearly a talented and determined maker. He is achieving a high level of fine craftsmanship that many makers fail to achieve in a lifetime. With clear influences from Robert Bouchet, there are also design and aesthetic reminders of Dominique Field and Jean-Noël Rohé.
  The sound character of this guitar is similarly strong, with full bass (G air resonance), a treble that is clear, bright, focussed with good projection. Immediately impressive, it has the energy of some modern construction instruments but with greater facility for tone variety.
  A really good instrument and an opportunity to have one from a maker clearly going places.

  Bertrand Ligier - Click here to find out more about this maker

• Price:
  Sold June 2015. Please enquire for the next available new one.
• AVAILABILITY
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