Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

Gerhard Oldiges of Marburg

• Year:

  2017 - 'La Giralda'. Labelled, named, signed and dated by the maker.

• Body:

  African blackwood (Dalbergia melanoxylon) - beautiful, straight-grained, quarter-sawn timber, very dark in colour with Hauseresque back centre-strip, purflings and rosewood bindings. The sides are lined with mahogony.
  Body length:- 482 mm.
  Top bout:- 281 mm wide & 92 mm deep.
  Waist:- 237 mm & 94 mm deep.
  Bottom bout:- 368 mm wide & 94 mm deep.
  All beautiful, high quality timber and all french-polished.

• Front:

  European spruce - a spectacular, well quartered top, full of haselfichte / bearclaw figuring. With a really beautiful Hauser style rosette with matching purflings. Slim rosewood bridge with bone-edged capping to the tie-block. In some years with the natural effect of UV light, this front will amber and look magnificent.

• Tuners:

  Schaller Grandtune with plain, satin gold, Hauser-shaped side-plates, black rollers and snakewood buttons.

• Scale:

  65cm with 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard

• Neck Width:

  52mm at the nut with 44 mm string spacing.

• Weight:

  1687 grams

• Condition:

  New and very handsome.

• Comments:

  These superb Oldiges guitars sound and feel very much in the Hauser I character but with new vitality. Gerhard Oldiges has had extensive access to research and analyse fine examples of 1930's & 1940's Hauser I guitars on which these are very closely reproduced. The sound captures the essence of Hauser I guitars with low body air frequency. The basses are rich, deep and magical; the treble sweet and singing. If you want a Hauser guitar without paying a fortune, faithful to the sound, feel and appearance of the 1930's and 40's originals, you will struggle to find better than these handsome Gerhard Oldiges guitars. Many makers make a Hauser copy or replica guitar; sometimes like physical clones - but few sound like these.
  This is a very fine example and although a little heavier with the african blackwood, the sound character is the same as the rosewood ones - with immense clarity in the trebles and extends great promise with the extraordinary quality of the spruce top. With F# air resonance, the bass is deep and focused, as they commonly are, but with an exceptionally clear and tone-flexible treble; obviously still very new but with huge potential.

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• Price:
  Euros 9000 including Hiscox case. Please note that all UK & European sales of new instruments are subject to the addition of VAT to the listed price.
• AVAILABILITY
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