Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

Brian Cohen of Peaslake, Surrey

• Year:

  1993. Labelled, signed and dated by the maker.

• Body:

  Beautiful, straight-grained rosewood with Hauser-style back centre-strip and purfling. All shellac french-polished. The inside of the guitar is lightly polished.

• Front:

  European bear-claw / haselfichte spruce, now with a lovely ambered colour. Very attractive, geometric rosette, slim rosewood bridge with bone-edged tie-block.

• Tuners:

  Rodgers with engraved brass, Hauser-style side-plates and ebony kidney buttons; an expensive, premium quality set.

• Scale:

  65cm with 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard.

• Neck Width:

  51mm with 43 mm string spacing.

• Weight:

  1460 grams

• Condition:

  In extremely good, seemingly original condition with absolutely minimal playing or handling marks. Four very short surface shakes in the rosewood of the sides; two on each side, have had some adhesive; perhaps unnecessarily, added externally as a precaution.

• Comments:

  This is a most successful reproduction of a Hermann Hauser guitar, allegedly made for Julian Bream. It is very handsome with superb quality timbers, high class tuning machines and with a noble sound to match; lovely to play and lovely to look at. Brian Cohen is well-known for high class classical guitars and enjoyed a fruitful friendship with Julian Bream in the 90's.
  For those players appreciating traditional-style instruments, particularly in hommage to Hauser, this is a very fine example.

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• Price:
  Sold December 2014
• AVAILABILITY
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