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Originally Posted by Brent Hutto
Mind? I love telling people about my instruments.
It's a 1976 M. Sakurai, built in the Kohno shop while his nephew (who now owns the company after the master's death some years ago) was an apprentice. Lovely piece of straight grained East Indian Rosewood for the body and Western Redcedar for the soundboard. Built similar to a Fleta and with 660mm long scale but a very comfy and playable neck shape.
It's a little overly warm sounding as you might expect for a long-scale cedar and EIR guitar but I love it! I've owned it for two years and if I'm not mistaken it had only a single owner before myself. I purchased it from Dream Guitars.
P.S. I believe Contreras pere et fils are one of the better regarded workshops in Spain, making a large number of guitars in a traditional Spanish manner. I've not played one but they have a great reputation if you want a "Spanish" tone with perhaps a certain degree of old-fashioned manly dimensions to the neck!
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Your description of that guitar has me drooling! Cedar and rosewood is a nice combo. I've never heard of Sakurai, I'll be looking that up.
Nice to hear Contreras is well-regarded. I honestly hadn't heard of them until I ran into that guitar in the GC classical room. That one specimen certainly is impressive. I'll probably be heading back up there soon to further ogle/admire it.
Happy fingerpicking...