Description
This instrument has been SOLD.
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In the collection at the Royal College of Music in London there is a fabulous guitar. This instrument was made by Belchior Dias in Lisbon, 1581. In its current condition it is set up as a guitar with five courses, but the small size of the body and short string length makes it a perfect model for a four-course renaissance guitar and this is the configuration which I am currently offering.
Our version of the Dias Renaissance guitar has four double-courses, (the first course is most commonly strung with a single string these days), with pear wood back and sides and a mahogany neck and head. The front is a AAA Engelmann spruce that is at least twelve years old with a three layer inset rose with two layers of wood over a parchment background. The fingerboard and head plate are ebony along with ebony edge binding around the front. You have a choice of either ebony or boxwood for the pegs as well as an option for mechanical pegheads, if you would like to use those. The strings that come standard on the instrument are synthetic, nylon, fluorocarbon with a wound nylon G-6 course and there is an option for a set of gut strings.
Instrument Specifications:
- String Length: 52cm
- Four Double Courses
- Tuning: a'-1, e-2, C-3, G'-4
- Vaulted Seven Stave Arched Back in Pear
- Neck: Mahogany
- Head: Mahogany with Ebony Head Plate
- Pegs: Ebony
- Fingerboard: Pear with Ebony Edges and Points
- Front: AAA Engelmann Spruce
- Bridge: Pear
- Nylon Strings
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