Item 70
Price: $16,000
Appraised Value 2016: $10,000
Appraised Value 2021: $10,000
The soundboard is made of two fine pieces of matched straight-grained spruce with grain spacing of 32 per inch at the center widening to 24 per inch at the edge of the lower bout. The rosette has a central design band showing a circle of red flowers surrounded with green leaves chained to each other with S-shaped swirls, bounded with concentric circles and bands of half-chevrons. The bridge is rosewood and the top of the tie-block is framed with bone. The golpeador is of thin clear plastic.
Sides and back are made of cypress with black edging and purfling. Neck and head are Spanish cedar. The head is faced with rosewood and has rosewood tuning pegs whose ends are inset with mother-of-pearl dots. The ebony fingerboard has narrow frets. The constructor’s stamp of “M.G.,” the initials of the well- known luthier Manuel González Contreras who was a journeyman in the Ramírez III workshop, are stamped on the interior foot of the end-block.
This guitar is in as-new, unplayed condition, still with its original catalyzed-urethane finish, and the original instruction pamphlet is still intact. The sound is loud, clear and with more warmth than usual for a flamenco guitar. It has the focused projection necessary for accompaniment.
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