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Showing posts with label Custom guitar.. Show all posts

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.


Alto Guitar, scale 555 mm, European Spruce top, Indian Rosewood (back and sides), Ebony fingerboard.


Multistring guitar (14 string), Indian Rosewood guitar sides, guitar neck.


Fourteen-string extended-range guitar. Rodolfo Cucculelli, luthier.



14string Terz guitar, Rodolfo Cucculelli, custom guitars.






14-string extended-range alto guitar.





Carlina Flores Classical guitarist.






Rodolfo Cucculelli, luthier.

Wednesday, 26 September 2007

8-string Flamenco Blanca Guitar / Livio Gianola, flamenco guitarist.


8-string Flamenco Blanca Guitar / Livio Gianola


Specially made for the Italian Flamenco Guitar Player Mr. Livio Gianola.
Plantilla, Template: Ignacio Fleta.
String length: 64,8 cm.
Total length of flamenco guitar: 101,5 cm.
Soundboard: Western Red Cedar (Thuja plicata).
Golpeador, pick-guard: Clear Mylar, but now iw a white colour.
Bridge: Wenge (Millettia Laurentii).
Bridge saddle: bone, compensated, to get a better intonation.
String clearance 1st to 8th at saddle: 80 mm.
Back and sides: Italian Cypress (Cupressus sempervirens).
Sound box measurements, long: 49,3 cm.
Upper bout 28,4 cm.
Waist: 23,6 cm.
Lower bout. 35,9 cm.
Sides height: 99 / 108 mm.
Soundhole: 88 mm.
Bindings: Indian Rosewood (Dalbergia Latifolia).
Neck: Laminated with Honduras Mahogany and Samba, with two truss-rod accessible from the soundhole to maintain their relief and the action of the strings over the frets.
Thickness (included fretboard), 1st fret 17 mm.; 11th fret: 18 mm.
Headstock, peghead: Veneered with Ebony (Diospyros ebenum).
Width of fingerboard at nut: 67 mm., at 12th fret: 81 mm.
Nut: Bone. Distance 1st to 8th string: 59 mm.
Frets: 21, nickel, tall, wide, hard.
Finishing: Shellac by hand.















You can see Livio Gianola performing his music (in this Custom flamenco guitar), Sevillanas, Bamberas, Zapateado, Fandago, Tarantas, Guajiras in this video:




https://soundcloud.com/live-in-europe/livio-gianola-02-temple-del-amstel



8-string Negra Flamenco guitar, scale 650 mm., Western RedCedar and Indian Rosewood.





Rodolfo Cucculelli, luthier.