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Marcelino Lopez Nieto of Madrid

• Year:

  1970 - number 538. Labelled, stamped, numbered and dated by the maker.

• Body:

  Very attractive rosewood. Fine purfling lines in green and orange.
  Shellac french polished.

• Front:

  Canadian cedar with a busy, geometric mosaic rosette; very typical of the maker's rosette patterns of this period.

• Tuners:

  Lansdorfers - original.

• Scale:

  66cm - yet very comfortable to play.

• Neck Width:

  52mm at the nut.

• Weight:

  1589 grams

• Condition:

  This is a one-owner guitar that has been looked after most beautifully and has never had any work done on it.
  Apart from a few incidental and insignificant marks the vast majority of the guitar is in as-new and exceptional condition.
  The cedar front, in book-matched positions either side of the soundhole has a surface fissure, most likely existing in the board before being made, that does not appear to be through the thickness of the top and requires no attention. There exists also a couple of very fine grainline cracks in the rosewood of no significance at all.
  With original nut, original bridge saddle and original frets.

• Comments:

  From a period when Marcelino Lopez Nieto was making his very best guitars, this is a very handsome, clean example in beautiful, original condition. The sound is aristocratic Spanish, clear and focussed with good sustain. I am very fond of guitars of the individual artisans from Madrid of this period and find something particularly charming in this maker's work.

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• Price:
  Sold November 2010.
• AVAILABILITY
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