Go BackManuel Hernandez y Victoriano Aguado of Madrid
- Year:
1963 - number 242. Signed and numbered under the front.
- Body:
Rosewood - book matched but characteristically without centre strip.
Top bout:- 280 mm wide & 98 mm deep.
Waist:- 245 mm.
Bottom bout:- 371 mm wide & 100 mm deep. - Front:
European Spruce with one of the well-recognised rosettes of the makers. 5 fan struts; parallel. With bridge plate.
- Tuners:
Fustero originals.
- Scale:
654 mm
- Neck Width:
51mm at the nut
- Weight:
1480 grams
- Condition:
This instrument is in outstanding original condition. All French polished and with negligible playing marks. It's a pity there is a very fine, untouched shrinkage crack along the edge of the centre seam strut between rosette and bridge.
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Comments:
A superb example of a Hernandez y Aguado made in the same year as one played extensively by Regino Sainz de la Maza. It was owned for decades by a female pupil of Eduardo Sainz de la Maza. The sound in this guitar is refined with a glassy, slightly austere character. It has been played very little and may well have never been fully played in. Its qualities are very subtle and not obvious to inexperienced players; not remarkably impressive at first but as you get to know it, it becomes more and more special - for example, the bass has remarkable sustain and focus - and when taken into a hall, the sound seems to expand into it. Such a rare guitar - and if anyone wanted to know what one looked like straight off the maker's bench, then this is very close to it.
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