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Classical Guitar:
 
Robert & Orville MILBURN, U.S.A.
Double (Sandwich) Top

African blackwood body spr./ced. soundboard
New : 2008
$13,000.00

This extremely powerful, unusually responsive spruce/cedar double top classical guitar has it all: lovely sound, broad color palette, large dynamic range, superb sustain, even balance up and down and across the strings, and easy playability.

Embodying a unique synthesis of composite double top design (as pioneered by the great contemporary German master, Gernot Wagner) and a variant of Hauser I's bracing system, this modern concert guitar stands testament to the fact that in the end it is great makers, regardless of a guitar's design, who make wonderful guitars.

Round creamy trebles, rich deep basses, outstanding projection, quick controlled very smooth response (this guitar is nearly impossible to overdrive) make this instrument an extremely impressive concert guitar from a wide variety of musical perspectives.

Add to these primary musical attributes beautiful understated visual aesthetics, stunning craftsmanship (among the finest in the world) and master grade materials, and you have perhaps the finest value available in a world class modern concert guitar. With nearly three hundred classical guitars to their credit and over fifteen years experience, look to the Milburns as two of the most brilliant in a new generation of guitarmakers of international stature.(Learn more).

Materials: Rare African blackwood sides and back, spr./ced. double top soundboard construction, moderately elevated fingerboard, snakewood bindings, African blackwood head veneers, black/white/black hairline purflings, mammoth ivory saddle and bridge tie block decoration, the most perfectly executed side grain mosaic rosette we have seen, impeccable French polish of shellac finish - Rodgers L201 precision tuning machine heads (the finest in the world) with engraved brass sideplates, ebony oval buttons and self-aligning bearing bushes - 650mm string length, Galli Genius GR60 Strings, written warranty.

 
 
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