Item 37 Price: $40,000 Appraised Value 2016: $40,000Appraised Value 2021: $40,000 SOLD This is a large, heavy, unusually built concert guitar which brilliantly confirms Smallman’s design concepts. He perceived that achieving more tone balance, volume and sustain would require reinventing the bracing system so the soundboard could be made thinner and more flexible. Internal construction […]
Greg Smallman – 1987 Read More »
Item 36 Price: $37,500 Appraised Value 2016: $50,000Appraised Value 2021: $60,000 SOLD Guitar Dimension Key
Domingo Esteso – 1926 Read More »
Item 35 Price: $38,000 Appraised Value 2016: $40,000Appraised Value 2021: $40,000 The soundboard of this guitar is made of two pieces of unmatched spruce with grain spacing averaging 26 per inch. The rosette has a circular main design band of nested diamonds in green and black. The bridge is made of rosewood. Its tie-block is
Arcángel Fernández – 1958 Read More »
Item 34 Price: $40,000 Appraised Value 2016: $40,000Appraised Value 2021: $50,000 This guitar showcases Viudes’ skills, combining excellent musical qualities and nice artistic concepts into a superb sounding and beautiful instrument. The soundboard is made from matched halves of clear and straight-grained spruce with grain spacing ranging from 19 per inch near the center joint
Antonio Emilio Pascual Viudes – 1926 Read More »
Item 33 Price: $45,000 Appraised Value 2016: $45,000Appraised Value 2021: $50,000 This instrument, by the founder of the Rodríguez guitar making dynasty, is highly decorated for a flamenco guitar. It has a powerful throaty sound with incisive punchy bass which enables it to be heard through cante and baile. A low playing action gives a
Miguel Rodríguez Sr., Flamenco – 1929 Read More »
Item 32 Price: $45,000 Appraised Value 2016: $30,000Appraised Value 2021: $45,000 SOLD This guitar’s two-piece soundboard is of book matched quartersawn Swiss spruce with grain spacing of 24 per inch near the center to 14 per inch near the lower bouts. The grain structure is near perfect showing much medullary grain and no runout. The
Dominique Field – 2001 Read More »
Item 31 Price: $50,000 Appraised Value 2016: $50,000 Appraised Value 2021: $50,000 SOLD The soundboard is made of halves of straight-grained spruce whose grain spacing varies from a very tight 40 per inch at the center joint to 24 per inch at the edges. The rosette and top decorative edging were crafted in marquetry to assemble
Vincente Arias – 1898 Read More »
Item 30 Price: $47,500 Appraised Value 2016: $60,000Appraised Value 2021: $70,000 Manuel Hernández and Victoriano Aguado are highly regarded as classical guitar makers but are practically unknown as builders of flamenco guitars. They probably built less than five flamenco guitars. The soundboard is made of matched halves of straight-grained spruce with grain spacing that varies
Hernández y Aguado, Flamenco – 1961 Read More »
Item 29 Price: $45,000 Appraised Value 2016: $50,000Appraised Value 2021: $60,000 This guitar is an example of Marcelo Barbero’s early work and is rare since he built few classical instruments due to the high demand for his flamenco guitars. The soundboard is made of straight-grained halves of spruce with grain spacing of 30 per inch
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Item 28 Price: $50,000 Appraised Value 2016: $55,000Appraised Value 2021: $60,000 SOLD This instrument is a beautiful large concert guitar with back and sides made of perfectly quartersawn Brazilian rosewood that exhibits abrupt color changes from dark to blond. Rodríguez has positioned and matched these color variations artistically and has highlighted them with light colored
Miguel Rodríguez Jr. – 1976 Read More »
