RENAISSANCE GUITAR

This 4 double course instrument, from the vihuela family, appeared in late XV century. Despite its simple configuration, this small guitar was not only used to accompany dances and fantasies, but sometimes also formed the basis of different music consorts using the new and showy technique of rasgueado.

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FRENCH 4-COURSE GUITAR

Model designed according to the iconography in the "Premier Livre de Chansons (...) de Guiterne" published in Paris by Master Guillaume Morlaye in 1552.
Pau ferro, redwood, rosewood, maple back and sides... European spruce top with maple and parchment rosette. Olive, ebony, pau ferro fingerboard... It is finished with oil and wax.
Available in two sizes:
SL 550mm, tuned d'd-gg-bb-e'
SL: 500mm, tuned g'g-c'c'-e'e'-a'

Professional range price: €2400
Intermediate range price: €1,850
Studio range price: €1,200

PORTUGUESE 4 or 5 COURSE GUITAR

Model designed after the small 5-course guitar-vihuela built in 1581 by Belchior Días in Lisbon, and preserved in the Museum of the Royal College of Music in London, RCM 171.
Pau ferro, redwood, rosewood, maple back and sides... European spruce top with maple and parchment rosette. Olive, ebony, pau ferro fingerboard... It is finished with oil and wax.
SL: 540mm.
Tuning: d'd-gg-bb-e'

Professional range price: €2400
Intermediate range price: €1,850
Studio range price: €1,200
Vaulted back: +€300

SPANISH 5-COURSE GUITAR

Based on the evidence in Declaración de instrumentos musicales, by Fray Juan Bermudo (1555), I have designed this 5-course guitar or vihuela.
It is carved and hollowed from a single piece of ash, with a spruce top and a pear and ebony fingerboard.
SL: 580 mm.
Proposed tuning: aA-d'd-gg-bb-e'.

Price professional: €2700.
Price intermediate: €2000
Price student: €1500.

Emilio Villalba plays "Agujitas y alfileres", own composition, with this 5-course guitar.