Item 06 Price: $170,000 Appraised Value 2016: $150,000Appraised Value 2021: $180,000 SOLD Bouchet (1898-1986) had two periods of building, each having a different internal bracing philosophy. The first period of 1946 to 1956 was characterized by thin soundboards (1.5 to 2mm typical), seven-strut fan bracing, and openings in the lower harmonic bar through which the outer fan struts passed. The […]
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Item 05 Price: $190,000 Appraised Value 2016: $150,000Appraised Value 2021: $225,000 SOLD Hermann Hauser I (1882-1952) of Munich, Germany, is renowned for the fresh perspectives and successful incremental improvements he contributed to Spanish style guitar making that hastened the adoption of the genre internationally. The soundboard of this instrument is made of four pieces of spruce
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Item 04 Price: $225,000 Appraised Value 2016: $250,000Appraised Value 2021: $300,000 SOLD The innate clarity and quality of this guitar’s tone and timbre is excellent vintage Torres. Compatibility of bass and treble notes might be due to the two unmatched spruce soundboard halves, the bass half having a grain spacing of 26 per inch and the treble half having a very
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Item 03 Price: $275,000 Appraised Value 2016: $250,000Appraised Value 2021: $300,000 SOLD Antonio de Torres (1817-1892) is the seminal guitar maker whose work and concepts in the mid-nineteenth century ushered in the modern era of Spanish guitar building. This 1867 guitar, numbered FE24, was once owned by Roberto Ramaugé of Buenos Aires who was taught
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Item 02 Price: Upon Request Any guitar created by Antonio de Torres is a historical and musical treasure and this guitar, once owned, concertized with and composed on by maestro Francisco Tárrega, is uniquely precious due to its impeccable provenance and its seminal maker. This guitar was the third and last Torres owned by Tárrega
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Item 01 Price: $230,000 Appraised Value 2016: $180,000Appraised Value 2021: $250,000 SOLD This guitar demonstrates all elements of the “Hauser mystique” – higher standards of craftsmanship, aesthetic purity, wonderful selection of woods, effortless playability, Segovia’s proclamation that his 1937 Hauser was the “greatest guitar of our epoch” and, especially, the beautiful, clear, powerful, colorful, and
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