Jorge Menezes Hermann Hauser Style 7 string Classical Guitar (2022)
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Jorge Menezes Hermann Hauser Style Model 7 string Classical Guitar (2022), made in Riberio Preto, Brazil, serial # 104, French polish top, polyurethane varnish back and sides finish, European spruce top, repurposed Brazilian jacaranda back and sides, ebony fingerboard, Brazilian jacaranda bridge, Brazilian pink cedar neck, black hard shell case.
This fine sounding modern 7-string concert guitar was completed in December 2022 by Luthier Jorge Luis De Pavia Menezes of Riberio Preto, Brazil; we rarely get modern 7-strings of this type in so this is a neat find. The guitar is built using 20 year old European spruce for the top and Brazilian Jacaranda wood from the Serrado for the back and sides. The neck is Brazilian pink cedar with an ebony fingerboard. The rosette is Jorge Menezes' own pattern. The top is finished in a very thin French polish, the back and sides in a harder wearing Polyurethane varnish. Menezes says of this guitar: "Built according to the blueprint and notes of the great luthier Hermann Hauser, blueprint from 1937, giving my best for a guitar that approximates the sound of the original guitars and having my own identity in its physical aspect." It is indeed a lovely sounding instrument, quite playable for a 7 string ready to be seriously played to bring the sound to full flower.
Overall length is 40 1/4 in. (102.2 cm.), 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 3 15/16 in. (10 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 25 1/2 in. (648 mm.). Width of nut is 2 7/16 in. (62 mm.).
This guitar shows light signs of use with some small handling marks and a few small dinks and scrapes to the top but does not appear too much played. Some of the finish work on the top and headstock face is a bit sloppy by modern US/European standards but the guitar is an excellent player with a very rich, full sound and a solid bass response even on the low string. Overall Excellent + Condition.
This fine sounding modern 7-string concert guitar was completed in December 2022 by Luthier Jorge Luis De Pavia Menezes of Riberio Preto, Brazil; we rarely get modern 7-strings of this type in so this is a neat find. The guitar is built using 20 year old European spruce for the top and Brazilian Jacaranda wood from the Serrado for the back and sides. The neck is Brazilian pink cedar with an ebony fingerboard. The rosette is Jorge Menezes' own pattern. The top is finished in a very thin French polish, the back and sides in a harder wearing Polyurethane varnish. Menezes says of this guitar: "Built according to the blueprint and notes of the great luthier Hermann Hauser, blueprint from 1937, giving my best for a guitar that approximates the sound of the original guitars and having my own identity in its physical aspect." It is indeed a lovely sounding instrument, quite playable for a 7 string ready to be seriously played to bring the sound to full flower.
Overall length is 40 1/4 in. (102.2 cm.), 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm.) wide at lower bout, and 3 15/16 in. (10 cm.) in depth at side, taken at the end block. Scale length is 25 1/2 in. (648 mm.). Width of nut is 2 7/16 in. (62 mm.).
This guitar shows light signs of use with some small handling marks and a few small dinks and scrapes to the top but does not appear too much played. Some of the finish work on the top and headstock face is a bit sloppy by modern US/European standards but the guitar is an excellent player with a very rich, full sound and a solid bass response even on the low string. Overall Excellent + Condition.