Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

Karel Dedain of Gent, Belgium

• Year:

  2017 - July. Labelled, dated and signed by the maker.

• Body:

  East Indian rosewood - very attractive, well-aged, straight-grained timber rosewood bindings and back centre-strip. All shellac french-polished to high standard.
  Body length:- 483 mm.
  Top bout:- 282 mm wide & 93 mm deep.
  Waist:- 238 mm & 95 mm deep
  Bottom bout:- 363 mm wide & 95 mm deep.

• Front:

  European spruce - having a lovely silky top with lots of medullary rays showing it to be well-quarter-sawn. A superb and precise Hauser II rosette, matching purfling and rosewood bridge with bone-edged tie-block cap.

• Tuners:

  Klaus Scheller high precision tuning machines with H60 engraved nickel silver Hauser-shaped side-plates, white rollers and white mother-of-pearl buttons mounted on a rosewood-faced head.

• Scale:

  65cm with 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard

• Neck Width:

  52mm at the nut with 42.5 mm string spacing.

• Weight:

  1428 grams

• Condition:

  This is a second-hand instrument with some very small marks only.

• Comments:

  Karel Dedain is a very talented maker from Antwerpen who graduated from the CMB lutherie school in Puurs under Walter Verreydt and now teaches there himself.
  Apart from his own model of classical guitar he has made wonderful reproductions of Vicente Arias, Antonio de Torres, Domingo Esteso and this guitar based on a specific 1956 Hauser II.
  The appearance of this instrument is exactly that of the Hauser IIs and with superlative materials. The sound also has the warmth of bass with air resonance just above F# and with a very clear singing treble making the whole guitar very flexible in tonal character like the originals.

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• Price:
  Sold July 2018
• AVAILABILITY
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