Jeroen Hilhorst
Maker of very special classical
concert guitars
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The
Standard Concert Guitar
The price of a
Standard concert guitar is: 7.150,- Euro.
With the standard concert guitar I have tried to create
a guitar that has a very strong projection, but that stays close to the
traditional guitar. I tried to make an attractive sound, in a guitar that is
not too heavy. And I tried to create enough sound for the player, a.o. with the extra soundhole in
the side of the guitar (on request).
The materials
in the standard concert guitar:
- a soundboard of very high
quality European spruce,
or cedar,
- back and sides of very high
quality Indian rosewood,
- the back is reinforced with
cedar,
- a cedar neck reinforced with graphite,
- an ebony center brace,
- other internal
reinforcements in pine,
- an ebony fingerboard,
- the roset
is from kingwood and maple,
- all white decoration lines
are maple.
The guitar has an elevated fingerboard, which improves the
sound, makes for easier playing over the octave and minimizes the chance of
scratching the soundboard.
The guitar has an armrest
for the right arm on the edge of the soundboard. This way the soundboard is not
damped by the right arm.
There are 20
frets on the fingerboard.
The string length is 65
cm.
The
guitar has an optimized soundboard, an center brace in the body
and the back is reinforced with two layers of cedar.
The guitar is varnished by hand with an acrylic varnish, rubbed out to a high gloss.
The soundboard is
French polished (a
thin coat of shellack).
The machine heads are Gotoh 510, with aluminium rollers and black buttons.
A Hiscox case is included.
The weight of the guitar is about 2,1
kg.
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Please keep in mind that I can (try to) make you a guitar with whatever
specifications you wish! <<
