Michael
F. Lazar
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Used 2005 Spruce Top/
East Indian Rosewood $3,000 |
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Materials: Spruce Top East Indian Rosewood Back and Sides
Spanish Cedar Neck Ebony Fret Board
East Indian
Rosewood Laminated
Ash Linings Nickel
Silver Frets Gotoh Premium Tuners Bone Nut and Saddle |
Design: 665 mm scale 54
mm nut width
Elevated Fret board Spanish
heel architecture John Gilbert style Top bracing Fully Compensated nut and saddle 12 Hole bridge tie block
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This is a "Segovia sized
" guitar. It was commissioned in 2005 by Andres Saborio a young
professional guitarist resident in Costa Rica who had just attained his
performance degree at the University in Bloomington Indiana. Studies in
guitar were headed up by Ernesto Bitteti, a world renowned guitar
performer and teacher from the generation following Segovia. Andres used
this guitar in concerts for 5 years primarily throughout Central and
South America and secondarily in the USA and Europe. In 2010 I offered
to provide him with a new guitar of a different design in exchange for
this one. He continues to use that guitar to this day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynMQZb87CAI&list=RDynMQZb87CAI&index=2 |
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More Photos Back Top Quarter Back Quarter Rosette Bridge HeadStock Bracing
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New 2021 Spruce Top/ East Indian Rosewood Friederich Replica $6,000
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Materials: Spruce Top East Indian Rosewood Back and Sides
Honduran Mahogany Neck African Ebony Fret Board
East Indian
Rosewood Laminated
Ash Linings Nickel
Silver Frets Rubner Roller Tuners Bone Nut and Saddle Bone Tie Block Edging |
Design: 650 mm scale 52
mm nut width Daniel Friederich Style Doubled Sides Daniel Friederich Style Top bracing Fully Compensated nut and saddle 12 Hole bridge tie block
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This guitar is highly inspired by Daniel Friederich's work and is close to being an exact copy. Slight variances include the 12 hole bridge and 20th fret on the treble side. The Friederich inspired top bracing continues to yield excellent results in terms of tone, balance, sustain, volume and projection. These guitars are generating some of my best results. It may be interesting to note that genuine Friederich guitars incorporating the same materials sell for $30,000 and up. I recently built a similar instrument for a player in Iowa who has a Michael O'leary, Smallman style lattice guitar from Ireland and a Manuel Velazquez Hauser style. He wanted a Friederich style guitar and decided to commission one from me. After his 14 day trial, he wrote the following: ]"The guitar has really opened up from a lot of playing! The tone, clarity or separation, the sustain, the balance and the projection/volume are all superb! The voices blend well and maintain clarity. The bass has "presence" and the trebles sing. I really hear all the characteristics of a D. Friederich guitar. I have heard several Friederich guitars and a few performers allowed me to play theirs. I just can't tell you enough about how you have gone beyond all of my expectations." More Photos Back Top Quarter Back Quarter Tail Rosette Bridge HeadStock Tuners
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