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Sunday 30 September 2007

14-string Alto Guitar, Altgitarr.


14-string Alto guitar anatomy.


Plantilla, template: Rodolfo Cucculelli.
Scale length from the main nut to the bridge saddle: 55,5 cm.
Overall length of altgitarr: 107 cm.
Scale (1st to 7th string): 55,5 cm.
String spacing 1st to 14th at main nut: 108 mm, at bridge saddle: 144 mm.
Top: Italian Spruce, Abete Rosso Italiano (Picea excelsa).The rosette is oval, handmade, with mother of pearl figures inlaid in a black ebony mastic.
Sound box measures, length: 43,5cm.
upper bout: 26,7 cm.
waist: 21,4 cm.
lower bout: 35,2 cm.
soundboard depth: 97 mm / 102 mm.
Bridge: Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia).
Strings spacing 1st to 14th string at bridge saddle: 144,5mm.
Saddle: Bone.
Back and sides: Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia latifolia).
Sides junction with the body at 12th fret.
Purfling: Flamed Maple Neck: Honduras Cedar (Cedrela odorata ), with two truss rods accessible from the sound hole.
Neck: Honduras Cedar (Cedrela odorata), with two truss rod accesible from the sounhole.
Neck wide at main nut: 117 mm, at 12th 136 mm.
Neck thickness at main nut: 17 mm, at 11th fret: 19 mm.
Nuts: Bone.
Strings spacing at main nut 1st to 14th : 108mm.
Fingerboard: Macassar Ebony (Diospyros celebica).
Wide of the fretboard at main nut: 117,5mm., at 12th fret: 136mm.
Frets from main nut: 22. Nickel.
Varnish: Shellac.

Tuning: G4-D4-A#3-F3-C3-G2-F2-E2-D2-C2-B1-A1-G1-F1.


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