Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

Daniel Friederich of Paris - Rue Sergent Bauchat

• Year:

  1967 - number 185. Labelled, signed and dated by the maker.

• Body:

  South American rosewood. With decorative centre strip and very fine purfling lines.

• Front:

  European spruce carrying an earlier version of Daniel Friederich's much-admired rosette and matching decoration to the top of the bone-framed bridge tie-block.

• Tuners:

  Fustero - having lyre ends, engraved black and brass sideplates and translucent, perloid buttons mounted on a rosewood-faced head.

• Scale:

  65cm with 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard

• Neck Width:

  50mm at the nut with 43.5 mm string spacing.

• Weight:

  1423 grams

• Condition:

  All original condition with no work having been done on it. No repairs, no cracks, no re-polishing. This is a guitar that has been played professionally for decades and therefore has an expected amount of playing wear, the most significant being a patch outside the treble strings. The polish is also worn thin in some areas but no more than can be expected with a guitar that was professionally played for the best part of 40 years, which of course has contributed to its quite exceptional sound; certainly one of the best guitars of any maker that I have played.

• Comments:

  This is such a fine guitar - so full of character and spontaneous sound. This was originally bought from Daniel Friederich in 1967 by a young woman who sold it just four years later to a Parisien professional. He played the instrument until sustaining hand injury just a few years ago.
  This number 185 is the next guitar produced after one I owned and played for some years, number 184 and regretted selling a few years ago.
  This one is near identical, also with Brazilian and spruce - and made in a period before Daniel Friederich made heavier guitars with doubled sides and with generally a heavier sound. It has depth of bass from air resonance at F# and the bass notes are very profound and sonorous - the bottom octave of the note is very steady and this seems to give a solid, focussed and sustaining sound. The treble is lovely with many cello-like sounds. The treble is very sweet, lyrical and interesting - a wonderful guitar. The majority of Daniel Friederich's output in later decades were heavier cedar guitars - very impressive and much revered by concert artists, but those spruce ones from the mid-60's and just into the 1970's really grab me.

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