Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

Christopher Dean of Kingham, Oxon.

• Year:

  1995 - number 219. Labelled, numbered, dated and signed by the maker.

• Body:

  Good quality, straight-grained, East Indian rosewood with single line box purfling and rosewood bindings.
  Body length:- 476mm.
  Top bout:- 273 mm wide & 95 mm deep.
  Waist:- 233 mm & 98 mm deep.
  Bottom bout:- 357 mm wide & 98 mm deep.
  I suspect the back, sides, neck and head reverse are finished in varnish.

• Front:

  European spruce with pronounced bearclaw markings, full of character, attractive purfling, rosewood bindings and with rosewood bridge with bone-edged tie-block capping.
  The front appears to be shellac french-polished.

• Tuners:

  Waverly-Sloane with synthetic ivory buttons on a rosewood-faced head.

• Scale:

  64cm with 19 frets (plus 20th for the 1st string) on an ebony fingerboard.

• Neck Width:

  51mm at the nut with 43.5 mm string spacing.

• Weight:

  1427 grams

• Condition:

  The guitar has normal playing and handling marks; relatively little on the back and sides - the front had numerous small marks from string-changing and playing nail marks but this has been re-polished. There is a small area on the reverse of the neck; 1st position, where the polish was rubbed through but polish has been added back.

• Comments:

  This is a very pleasing and friendly guitar to play - though not as deep in voice as more recent ones, it has warm, rounded, traditional tones, good clarity, projection and balance - all very typical of Christopher Dean concert guitars. The 64cm scale length is helpful to players with smaller hands or with a short, left hand, little finger. At well below the price of a new or more recent one, this is a good option to have a guitar of such quality at lower financial outlay.

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• Price:
  Sold January 2019.
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