Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

Ignacio Fleta y Hijos of Barcelona.

• Year:

  1974 - number 653. Labelled, numbered, stamped and dated by the makers.

• Body:

  East Indian rosewood - beautiful, straight-grained timber with fine purfling lines.
  Body length:- 490 mm.
  Top bout:- 288 mm wide & 95 mm deep.
  Waist:- 237 mm & 98 mm deep.
  Bottom bout:- 363 mm wide & 98 mm deep.
  All shellac french-polished.

• Front:

  Canadian cedar - with very even grain width across the soundboard, incorporating the famed rosette, rosewood bridge and bone-framed tie-block capping.

• Tuners:

  Lansdorfers with yellow metal, engraved side-plates, white rollers and mother-of-pearl rectangular buttons.

• Scale:

  65 cm with 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard.

• Neck Width:

  52 mm at the nut with 43.5 mm string spacing.

• Weight:

  1580 grams

• Condition:

  This guitar is in original, unaltered condition.
  The head, neck, back & sides are in very good condition with few marks for its age.
  The front has a rash of string-changing marks below the bridge and a rash of nail-end marks outside of the 1st string between rosette and bridge. There is 7 cm crack right on the edge of the lower bout, treble-side of the front - with four little lines alongside. This is insignificant for sound and does not require repair.

• Comments:

  This is a fine Fleta guitar in good condition and with typical, characteristic sound - warm, typically Fleta, with a strong, bright treble, obvious clarity, quite loud and refined.
  With the additional, diagonal harmonic bar and nine fan-struts, this design normally has an air resonance around A. And when the 6th string is tuned down to D, the guitar has a wonderful growl.
  So - a fine Fleta in original condition and ready to be played.

  Ignacio Fleta - Click here to find out more about this maker

• Price:
  Sold March 2017
• AVAILABILITY
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