Item 50
Price: $22,000
Appraised Value 2016: $25,000
Appraised Value 2021: $30,000
SOLD
This guitar’s rosette has a central band of a sine wave with stars design. The bridge is of rosewood with its tie-block edges protected by rust-colored bone strips. The purflings are strips of brown and iconic Hauser pale green, which complement the cedar-colored soundboard.
The soundboard is made from matched halves of western red cedar with grain spacing of 20 per inch. The two-piece book-matched back is of figured Brazilian rosewood as are the sides. A fillet of green and natural is set into the back’s center seam. The neck and head are mahogany joined together with a V-joint, and the head is faced with rosewood with a thin contrasting natural-colored strip down the head’s centerline. Deluxe Landstorfer tuning machines with black mother-of- pearl grips are fitted. The fingerboard is ebony with nineteen medium frets and a bone nut.
The internal bracing pattern features a curved harmonic bar to give some added freedom of movement to the soundboard. Harmonic bars and crossbars have tapered ends. The linings are made of spruce top strips and mahogany back strips that are (as they always have been through the Hauser generations) bent solid, glued to the sides and final shaped before cutting the kerfs. The guitar is finished with sprayed lacquer. The following is handwritten on the interior foot:
No. 295
17 5. 1991
8386 REISBACH
W. – Germany
Hermann Hauser
III
This guitar’s sound is the epitome of the cedar soundboard voicing. This guitar’s voice has a quality, desirability and listening pleasure equivalent to that of an excellent vintage spruce soundboard instrument.
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