19th Century Romantic Style Classical Guitar

19th Century Romantic Style Classical Guitar

The beautiful guitar below was made in Austria near the turn of the 19th Century.  Even so, it is done in early 19th Century romantic style. This guitar has a floating finger board.   It also has a unique feature in the Stauffer tradition.  The neck is adjustable by inserting a key to turn a pin at the joint of the neck with the guitar body. The action is therefore adjustable, but because of a slight warp at the end of the finger board, the action can't be lowered to more than about 4 mm. at the 19th fret.  Frets and finger board are in excellent condition.

There are a couple of professionally repaired cracks on the face of the guitar.  They are stable and do not affect the tone.  There is another crack of about an inch in the side of the guitar that is non-repairable because of a flaw in the wood, but it is stable and does not affect playability.  Tuning gears are not original, but function fine.  For its age, this guitar is in excellent condition.  It is now strung with NylaGut (a synthetic gut string) and sounds terrific.  Its volume is impressive for its size.  It has that "19th Century sound" and is particularly complimentary to voice accompaniment.  The wooden "coffin case" is made by John Salicco.

Examine the photos below and if you are interested in more details, please contact us.             


Price of antique guitar with wooden case $1,200.00 plus S&H.