1960 Ignacio Fleta SP/CSAR

In typical Fleta fashion for this period, this example from 1960 features a spruce soundboard with what we believe is CSA rosewood for the back and sides. This guitar was formerly housed in the Sheldon Urlik collection and featured on pages 124-125 of the 2nd edition of his book and is there identified as Indian rosewood. However, this wood was used by others at this time including Daniel Friederich, who called it "Amazonian" rosewood. In either case, it is high-grade material and a very well-cut quartersawn set. As expected, the sound is incredible - deep and complex with incredible dynamic range and balance. It also has a firmness in the fundamental which provides great projection in larger venues. Many players find the slender neck shapes on Fleta from this period to be his easiest to play - and this guitar is no exception - playability is easy on the hands and can be played comfortably over many hours in a single sitting. It was recently serviced by Jeffrey Elliott who glued some small cracks (on the top only), otherwise it is in excellent and original condition (including Fleta's famous "violin-formula" French polish) for an instrument with over 6 decades of playing on it. This is also from Fleta's golden 'spruce' era - players like Segovia and Williams were concertizing and recording on Fleta instruments from this very period, making this sound one of the most beloved and cherished to modern admirers and aficionados of the classical guitar.