Item 05
Price: $190,000
Appraised Value 2016: $150,000
Appraised 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 with seams in the center and outboard of the bridge ends. The grain spacing is fairly uniform at 11 to 13 per inch across the soundboard’s width. The rosette has a precise triple-herringbone pattern of natural wood color with several black rings. A German-silver tornavoz is fixed to the inside of the soundboard around the soundhole and a thin wooden ring reinforces the inside tornavoz to soundboard joint. The bridge is rosewood with mother-of-pearl dots near each end and a mother-of-pearl plate covers the top of its tie-block.
Back and sides are highly figured striped maple. The fingerboard is ebony and has a zero fret just below the nut. Frets are of low height. Mahogany neck and head join with a V-shaped joint and the face of the head is veneered with rosewood with a mother-of-pearl inlay. The original Landstorfer tuning machines are configured in the older style with the worm gears below the spur gears so that string tension pulls the spur into the worm. This guitar exemplifies Hauser’s fine work and is in excellent condition. Its tone is rich, sweet, lyrical and concentrated. Notes have a soft initial attack and the tornavoz seems to focus the emerging sound so adequate volume is available. Bass tones are especially sonorous when the low E string is tuned down to D.
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