Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

José Romanillos & Son - Semley

• Year:

  1999 - number 773 named 'La Rosa'

• Body:

  East Indian rosewood with lovely colours, particularly on the sides, with broad, boxwood purflings to back and sides.
  Body length:- 485 mm.
  Top bout:- 275 mm wide & 94 mm deep.
  Waist:- 236 mm & 96 mm deep.
  Bottom bout:- 364 mm wide & 97 mm deep.
  All shellac french-polished.

• Front:

  European spruce with just some a little bearclaw / haselfichte figuring, with the famous 'moorish arches' rosette. Rosewood bridge with tie-block decoration. Shellac french polished.

• Tuners:

  Reichl - Lansdorfer pattern with white mother-of-pearl buttons, mounted on a decorated headface.

• Scale:

  65cm with 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard

• Neck Width:

  52 mm at the nut with 45mm string spacing

• Weight:

  1454 grams

• Condition:

  In really good, original condition given that is has been owned since new by an active professional - with very little in terms of playing and handling marks. It looks very clean and handsome.
  No repairs; no cracks; original finish and frets.

• Comments:

  This is a fine Romanillos instrument. Quite light in weight; deep in voice with an air resonance close to F, it has a typical Romanillos sound with deep bass, strong middle and a very clear, balanced treble reminiscent of some of the mid and late-70's Romanillos. Really very fine.

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• Price:
  Sold June 2015
• AVAILABILITY
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