Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

Gerhard Oldiges of Marburg

• Year:

  Completed February 2012. Labelled in 2011.

• Body:

  Spanish cypress - in three pieces of beautiful, straight-grained wood.
  The neck is of central American cedar with ebony fingerboard.

• Front:

  European spruce - very silky and tight-grained, with a brass tornovoz in the soundhole. The bridge is unlike the typical modern bridge and has been modified from the 1856 Torres to include a saddle - see photo.

• Tuners:

  Rodgers with engraved, brass sideplates and horn buttons. The Torres original will probably have had a peg-head and much later converted to machine tuners.

• Scale:

  65 cm. 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard - with three thicknesses of fret wire - as the original.

• Neck Width:

  51.5 mm

• Weight:

  1375 grams - very light

• Condition:

  In very good condition - with some light marks.
  All shellac french-polished.

  Note - the mp3 sample of if the previous one which seems identical.

• Comments:

  The original guitar 1856 "La Leona“ was built by the great spanish master Antonio de Torres and was restored a few years ago in Germany. Stefano Grondona and Wulfin Lieske have made recordings with the original “La Leona” which belongs to a German collector and is often played in public recitals by Wulfin Lieske. The original and copies alike, are very light with a body resonance right down at D. The whole character of the guitar is very deep yet the treble has good, penetrating strength. It is a totally different and thrilling experience to play this style of instrument. Gerhard Oldiges has made seven or eight such guitars - they require great care in the making and are a very limited edition hence a rare opportunity.

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• Price:
  Sold January 2016
• AVAILABILITY
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