Hernandez y Aguado Style Guitar - Douglas Fir Top, Mahogany Back and Sides
The classic guitar is a delicate equation painstakingly conceived to produce a brilliant, balanced tone over its entire playable range.
Irving Sloane, Classic Guitar Construction, 1966
The young guitar student that I mentioned in my last post came to my shop yesterday to take delivery on the Douglas fir/mahogany guitar. It is a close copy of a guitar made in 1968 by the great Spanish makers, Manuel Hernandez and Victoriano Aguado.
The top is from a salvaged Douglas fir board...
...and the back and sides are Honduran mahogany.
The young man played several Catalan songs arranged by Miguel Llobet, I thought I was listening to an old recording of Andres Segovia! This guitar has an old Spanish-like quality to it that gave me goose bumps, it sounds so wonderful! I can't wait to hear this guitar in six months!
I hope to get a chance to record the young man and his guitar this winter so I can post the videos on this blog.
He and his father gave me a deposit so I can start working on another guitar for him.
He really likes the Douglas fir for its sound, now I need to convince him to let me use sustainable woods that grow here in North America for the rest of the guitar...
Irving Sloane, Classic Guitar Construction, 1966
The young guitar student that I mentioned in my last post came to my shop yesterday to take delivery on the Douglas fir/mahogany guitar. It is a close copy of a guitar made in 1968 by the great Spanish makers, Manuel Hernandez and Victoriano Aguado.
The top is from a salvaged Douglas fir board...
...and the back and sides are Honduran mahogany.
The young man played several Catalan songs arranged by Miguel Llobet, I thought I was listening to an old recording of Andres Segovia! This guitar has an old Spanish-like quality to it that gave me goose bumps, it sounds so wonderful! I can't wait to hear this guitar in six months!
I hope to get a chance to record the young man and his guitar this winter so I can post the videos on this blog.
He and his father gave me a deposit so I can start working on another guitar for him.
He really likes the Douglas fir for its sound, now I need to convince him to let me use sustainable woods that grow here in North America for the rest of the guitar...
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