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Master Series Hauser Nylon String Acoustic Guitar
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Perfectly balanced and refined.
Materials
Cordoba's Hauser is built with a solid Englemann spruce top and solid Indian rosewood back and sides. It features a Spanish cedar neck topped with an African ebony fingerboard. A few modern refinements such as a truss rod, geared tuning machines, durable finish, and non-gut strings were added to improve on what was not available in the 1930s, but are essential today. The result is an instrument that exemplifies the authentic Hauser design, voicing, and feel, and captures a rare piece of guitar making history.
The Process
Cordoba obtained a 1937 Hauser model in order to study it inside and out, and play it over and over. The mission was to understand the essence of what gives this iconic guitar such an amazing voice and feel, and then recreate an instrument that possesses these characteristics and carries the same magic in its DNA. The process was a combination of science and feel; the wood thicknesses of the top, backs, sides, and braces were measured to the nearest hundredth of a millimeter, bracing patterns traced and mapped, and details of the materials, inlays, wood grains, and vibrations were all carefully analyzed. The guitar was played and listened to for hours to gain an understanding of the balance between the trebles and basses, resonance of the top, and a sense for the feel and response of the guitar when played in a variety of styles and environments.
Why Hauser?
The late Spanish maestro Andres Segovia is widely regarded as the most prominent figure to demonstrate through his outstanding playing that the guitar should be considered a viable, legitimate concert instrument, alongside the violin and piano. Previously, the guitar was viewed by the larger concert-going public as a somewhat limited "folk" instrument, belonging at home, or at most as a parlor instrument for the aristocratic elite. After rejecting many of German guitar maker Hermann Hauser's first attempts at building a "Spanish" style instrument, Segovia finally accepted one built in 1937, deeming it "the greatest guitar of our epoch,". It was with this Hauser that Segovia tirelessly concertized and recorded for decades, winning over audiences and critics little by little until the classical guitar's position was secured as a concert worthy instrument. This 1937 Hauser is now regarded one of the most iconic guitars in history. It now resides in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Features
- Top: Solid Engelmann spruce
- Back & Sides: Solid Indian rosewood
- Binding/Bridge: Indian rosewood binding / Indian rosewood bridge
- Purfling/Inlay: 8 ply maple & ebony top purfling, 3 ply maple & green back & sides purfling, 11 ply center backstrip
- Rosette: All natural mosaic & rope design marquetry
- Finish: High Gloss PU
- Neck/Fingerboard: Mahogany neck (Traditional/Classical Profile) / Ebony fingerboard
- Truss Rod: Two-way adjustable, 9/64"
- Scale Length: 650mm (25.6")
- Nut Width: 52mm (2.04")
- String Spacing at Saddle: 59mm
- Fret Marker Inlays: 5, 7
- Nut/Saddle: Bone nut & saddle
- Number of Frets: 12 to body, 19 total
- Bracing/Build: 1937 Hauser 7 Fan Bracing
- Body Width & Length: 277mm (10 7/8") upper bout width / 368mm (14 1/2") lower bout width / 487mm (19 1/8") body length
- Overall Length: 993mm (39 1/8")
- Body Depth: 95mm (3 3/4") upper bout depth / 99mm (3 7/8") lower bout depth
- Tuning Machines: Cordoba Master Series Tuning Machines - Ebony
- Strings: Savarez
- Electronics: NA
- Tap Plate/Pick Guard: NA
- Case: Hardshell Cordoba humidified archtop case
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- Free Standard Ground shipping (48 contiguous states, some overweight and Used/Vintage items excluded).
- Orders placed before 3 p.m. ET usually ship the same business day.
Every guitar or bass you purchase from Musician's Friend (electric or acoustic, New or Open Box) includes two years of protection from manufacturer defects.
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