Item 33
Price: $45,000
Appraised Value 2016: $45,000
Appraised Value 2021: $50,000
This instrument, by the founder of the Rodríguez guitar making dynasty, is highly decorated for a flamenco guitar. It has a powerful throaty sound with incisive punchy bass which enables it to be heard through cante and baile. A low playing action gives a raspy voice when the guitar is played hard. This delicately constructed guitar is in very good condition after receiving some competent repairs and a touching up of its French polish of shellac finish.
The soundboard is made from matched halves of straight-grained spruce with a uniform grain spacing of 26 per inch. The bridge is rosewood with mother-of-pearl daisy patterns, and its tie-block is edged with bone strips. Bass and treble golpeadors are black plastic.
Back and sides are cypress with dyed wood edging and purfling. The center seam of the back and the bottom junction of the sides have half-chevron fillet bands. Neck and head are Spanish cedar and the head is faced with rosewood. A hole is drilled through the upper head to receive a hanging thong. The ebony fingerboard has new medium-height frets.
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