Classical Guitars - Kent Guitar Classics

Stephen Frith of Crawley

• Year:

  New 2020 - number 444. Labelled signed and numbered by the maker.

• Body:

  Indian rosewood - high quality timber, dark in colour with rich tone variety and slim purfling - nicely polished too; all shellac french-polished.
  Body length:- 485mm.
  Top bout:- 282 mm wide & 95 mm deep.
  Waist:- 235 mm & 99 mm deep.
  Bottom bout:- 368 mm wide & 97 mm deep.

• Front:

  Canadian cedar - a strikingly impressive, silky top - fine-grained and stacks of medullary rays showing. The front has a lovely, fine-detailed, geometric rosette with matching purfling and dark rosewood bridge with bone-edged tied block.

• Tuners:

  Schaller Grandtune with cream rollers and snakewood buttons.

• Scale:

  65cm with 19 frets on an ebony fingerboard

• Neck Width:

  53mm at the nut with 42 mm string spacing.

• Weight:

  1435 grams

• Condition:

  New. All shellac french-polished.

• Comments:

  Another fine example of Stephen Frith's craft - but unusually this time a cedar-fronted instrument, quite light in weight, with influences from extensive study with José & Liam Romanillos. It has a robust, powerful feel about it - and with depth of bass coming from the body resonance around F# combined with a productive, well-balanced and interesting treble that has clarity, sweetness and sustain. Stephen's guitars offer a wide range of sound from rich deep tasto to bright ponticellos. These are really very good instruments, very comfortable to play and still at a very reasonable price.

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• Price:
  Sold November 2020
• AVAILABILITY
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