2018 Rudolf Ladenstein Model Replica of Herman Hauser I Segovia 1937 natural

Excellent condition, 8,5/10, Made in Sweden, luthier Rudolf Ladenstein (originally from Germany) decided to take up guitar building here in Stockholm after his retirement and has over the last 20 years built a lot of beautiful instruments, we are happy to have this instrument in our showroom, built after Richard Brunés drawings from the Metropolitan Museum in New York, USA, more specs: Scale 650 mm Body Length 480 mm Body Width 365 mm Body Depth 85 - 95 mm Nut Width 52 mm Strings Savarez Carbon Neck African Mahagony Bridge East Indian Rosewood Fingerboard Macassar Ebony Bindings Rosewood Rosette Hauser I pattern Finish Shellac, French Polish Tuning machines Gotoh, matte finish Top Alpine Spruce, master class wood Back & Ribs Honduras Palisander and we let the luthier tell his story: In 2005 I was fascinated by a course in guitar making which was led by the German luthier Curt Claus Voigt from Munich. After this course I was invited to build a second concert guitar together with him in his workshop in Munich, Franziskanerstrasse. This experience – building a fine classical guitar with maple back and sides and a selected spruce top – soon has become an irreversible step towards guitar making on my own in my workshop in Lidingö, close to Stockholm, Sweden. Herman Hauser (1882 - 1952) had his workshop in Munich and is regarded as one of the finest German guitar makers. By his work he has influenced many twentieth century luthiers, however, the basis of his design was in fact the Torres guitar. Some players regard his instruments as being superior to those of Torres. Andres Segovia and Julian Bream are but two guitarists who have played consistently Hermann Hauser guitars for many years. Hauser style guitars are characterized by a clear balanced sound and clean proportions. My Hauser style guitar is based on the smaller plantilla taken from a 1944 Hauser I guitar. This guitar is beautiful to look at with its classical Hauser rosette and has a fine tone balance with smooth basses and clear trebles. This guitar is available in the following wood combinations: Alpine Spruce top / Flamed Maple- or East Indian Rosewood back and sides, or Cedar top / Honduran Rosewood back and sides. In general all wood used for stabilizing struts and bars is quarter-sawn and split from wood billets. All gluing inside the sound-box is performed with hot bone glue at a relative humidity of around 40 - 50%. Fingerboard widths, neck dimensions and string spacing can be adapted to individual requirements. Side position dots are optional. My guitars are exclusively equipped with engraved SLOANE machine heads made from cast bronze.