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1961 Hernandez y Aguado Style Classical Guitar, Redwood/Indian Rosewood, For Sale

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The partnership of Manuel Hernandez and Victoriano Aguado was one of the most successful in guitar making history. Roy Courtnall, Making Master Guitars , 1993 Please note that this guitar is currently for sale at Savage Classical Guitar . Please click here to see this guitar! I made this guitar several years ago, but because of custom orders, I had to set it aside. I put strings on it two weeks ago and it is a most magnificent sounding guitar! It has good, clear separation string to string, wonderful sustain with evenness and balance throughout with a very lyrical voice. I originally made this guitar for myself, but someone with a good strong technique and a good understanding of musical interpretation should own this guitar and play it on a regular basis. This guitar is a fairly close copy of a guitar made by Hernandez y Aguado in 1961. The body length is 480mm, most of the HyA guitars had a body length of 490mm; string length is 650mm, many were 655mm and longer; other tha

A Few Thoughts on Classic Guitar Bracing

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The guitar is complex, mystifying, forever trying to equal its powerful enchantment with that of its equally bewitching and enigmatic qualities... Jose Ramirez III, Things About the Guitar , 1990 A young classical guitarist, let's call her Virginia, recently forwarded me a link to another guitar maker's website, a steel string maker who makes some really nice guitars and has some definite ideas on how to make a steel string guitar sound loud! She asked if I agree with this maker's take on guitar bracing. In the page that I was forwarded, the maker states that he braces the guitar's top so the bridge is locked in place - reduce movement of the bridge and more of the strings' energy is transmitted to the top. Yes, I agree with that, reducing the bridge's movement has been discussed quite a bit in several papers on guitar acoustics. If anyone is interested in reading several articles on guitar acoustics, which include illustrations of how a guitar top mov