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Weissgerber - Richard Jakob (1877-1960) of Markneukirchen

• Year:

  Believed to be 1926. Inside the guitar is written 27./4. /2.

• Body:

  Flamed maple - a one-piece back with some bird's eye figuring. Very attractive wood with a lovely golden honey colour. Simple yet elegant purflings and bindings.

• Front:

  European spruce - with the normal book-matched halves. Slim rosette with matching purflings

• Tuners:

  Unidentified make; presumably original, with small white buttons on a black painted head.

• Scale:

  62 cm

• Neck Width:

  50 mm at the nut. Rosewood fingerboard and with 20th fret

• Weight:

  1222 grams

• Condition:

  In remarkable condition, assuming the year to be 1926-1927. Seemingly in original condition and with the original polish, there are no repairs, no cracks and relatively few marks.

• Comments:

  A huge amount of information about this well-respected German maker, can be found at http://www.studia-instrumentorum.de/MUSEUM/WEISSGERBER/weissg_summary.htm and a book by Christof Hanusch was recently published in Germany. The maker produced a wide range of styles of guitar and some were used for many years by Siegfried Behrend and Shin-ichi Fukuda for example.
  This one is a more 'spanish' model, with a surprising strength of sound for a shorter-scale guitars and with sweet tone.

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• Price:
  Sold June 2011
• AVAILABILITY
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