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Sunday 23 September 2007

Eight stringed extended-range classical guitar.


8-string Classic Guitar / Nikolai Svishev guitar player.


Specially made for Mr. Nikolai Svishev.
Plantilla, Template: Ignacio Fleta, modified with a broad sharp cut-away, to let a more comfortable access to the highest notes of the fingerboard.
Scale length: 64,8 cm.
Total guitar length: 102,5 cm.
Soundboard: Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata).
Pick-guard, “Golpeador”: Mylar, transparent, auto-adhesive.
Bridge: African Wenge (Millettia Laurentii). 17 cm. long, 8 mm. height.
Saddle: Bone, compensated to get correct tuning. Strings distance 1st to 8th: 80,5 mm.
Back and sides: Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens).
Soundbox measures: Soundboard length: 49,4 cm.
Upper bout: 28,5 cm.
Waist: 23,8 cm.
Lower bout: 35,8 cm.
Sound box depth: 95 mm. / 103 mm.
Soundhole diameter: 88 mm.
Purfling: Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia Latifolia).
Cut-away: Venetian cut-away.
Neck: Honduras Cedar, with two truss rod adjustable from the soundhole, to maintain the proper relief and get control of the action of the strings.
Neck thickness (included fingerboard): at nut: 17 mm., at 11th fret: 18,5 mm.
Neck wide: at nut: 68 mm., at 12th fret: 81 mm
Headstock: Laminated with Cocobolo (Dalbergia retusa). 19,5 cm. long.
Tuners: Schaller, Hauser model.
Fretboard: Ebony (Diospyros Ebenum). Wide of the fingerboard at nut: 68 mm., at 12th fret: 81 mm., at 19th fret: 74 mm.
Nut: Bone. 1st to 8th string spacing at nut: 58,5 mm.
Frets: 21, nickel, tall, hard.
Varnish, polish: Shellac “a Muñeca” (French Polish).


Guitarist Nikolai Svishev plays "Luiza" by Antonio Carlos Jobim (Tom Jobim) Гитарист Николай Свищев "Луиза" А К Жобим







Guitarist Nikolai Svishev plays "Here comes the Sun" by The Beatles, Николай Свищев, Charleston, SC www.nikolaisvishev.com
https://youtu.be/oizh-R6_FK4






Guitarist Nikolai Svishev plays: “A Felicidade” by Tom Jobim






Guitarist Nikolai Svishev www.nikolaisvishev.com plays "Milonga del Angel" by Astor Piazzolla.





Guitarist Nikolai Svishev www.nikolaisvishev.com plays or "Manha de Carnaval" written by Luiz Bonfa for Brazilain movie "Black Orpheus"  





Anos Dourados (Looks like December) by Tom Jobim







Air on the G String  J. S. Bach

Guitarist Nikolai Svishev www.nikolaisvishev.com plays "Air on the G String" by

Johann Sebastian Bach, 1685-1750. From Suite in D, B.W.V. 1068





Guitarist Nikolai Svishev Duo (featuring Rochelle Green): "Summertime"




Rodolfo Cucculelli, luthier.















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