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Classical concert guitar – template by Antonio Torres 1943

  Enrique Rosales puts on sale a classical concert guitar built in 2012 by the luthier Carlos Medina Coss (Mexico, D.F.), on a Hauser template from 1943. Their characteristics are: Sides and backs: AAA Indian Rosewood. Soundboard: Special German spruce. Neck: Central American cedar. Diapason; African ebony. Bridge: Cocobolo. Wood marquetry: Handmade in Russia by […]

Gut strings for guitar

A new day for classical guitar During the Second World War, Andrés Segovia was invited to a meeting of the classical guitar society in Washington, days before starting a tour in South America. Segovia commented with those present at that meeting that he was about to run out of strings for his guitar, since during […]