1990 - named 'Amina'
30+ years old rosewood with very exotic and dramatic figuring in the timber. Slim mosaic back centre strip and contrasting purflings of maple. All shellac french-polished.
Body length:- 480 mm
Top bout:- 269 mm wide & 91 mm deep.
Waist:- 225 mm
Bottom bout:- 357 mm wide & 94 mm deep.
European spruce, now with a lovely ambered colour, with a very attractive geometric rosette, mainly in black and white. Dark rosewood bridge with white bone-edgeded tie-block. Shellac french-polished.
Rodgers tuning machines with engraved brass sideplates and white mother-of-pearl buttons. Mounted on a rosewood-faced head.
65cm with 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard
51 mm at the nut with 43 mm string spacing.
1535 grams
The spruce front has playing marks; particularly a patch treble-side of the rosette worn through the polish.
The exotic-grained rosewood back has one natural crack in the lower bass bout - it is level, tight and could be cosmetically better disguised. There is also a 6cm tight grain-line crack in book-matched position on the widest point of the ribs. None of this gives any cause for structural concern nor does anything need doing with it and is a common consequence with this timber.
This instrument was originally owned by Mark Eden (of Eden-Stell duo) and on which he played and gained the Julian Bream prize when at the RACM.
It is a very lovely Torres-style instrument with much musically-persuasive power; depth of bass and a sweet, lyrical treble quality. At roughly half the price of a new one, this is a beautiful musical instrument including exotic timbers and Rodgers tuning machimesKevin Aram - Click here to find out more about this maker
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