Item 52
Price: $22,500
Appraised Value 2016: $25,000
Appraised Value 2021: $25,000
The soundboard is made of matched halves of red cedar of uniform grain with very fine spacing of 40 per inch. The slanting harmonic bar from the soundhole to the lower treble bout adds stiffness to the treble side of the soundboard to control trebles, which allowed Belezar to forgo diagonal struts at the bottoms of the lower bouts. The small rosette has a pattern band of blossoms connected by swirls. The bridge is of rosewood, and its tie-block is capped with a design strip matching the rosette and framed in mother-of-pearl.
The two-piece back and sides are of Indian rosewood. The halves of the back are joined directly without any fillet in the seam. The neck and head are cedar, and the head is faced with rosewood carved and stippled into a flowing linear design. The fingerboard is ebony with medium frets and a bone nut. Engraved tuning machines are fitted.
This cedar soundboard guitar sounds much like an excellent spruce soundboard instrument with very good clarity and a broad tonal color range, likely due to its bracing pattern. It’s a powerful guitar through all of its octaves. The timbre responds instantly to a player’s touch. Notes depart the soundboard surface quickly so tremolo is distinct.
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