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In Stock - SKU: GUCLHER-08078 - Hernandez y Aguado

1974 Hernandez y Aguado SP/CSAR

Year 1974
Top Spruce
Back & Sides CSA Rosewood
Scale Length 660 mm
Nut width 52 mm
Finish French Polish
Country Spain
Condition Excellent
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Description

Manuel Hernandez (1895-1975) and Victoriano Aguado (1897-1972) met and became friends while working together in a piano factory. They eventually formed a partnership and set up their own piano (and furniture) repair shop in Madrid. As legend has it, their great interest in the art of guitar making was secured sometime in the 1940’s when they leased out some space in their shop to Modesto Borreguero (one of the famed Manuel Ramirez workers) and became intrigued with his guitar making skills. Their instruments remain unique in the canon of great makers – they have an almost pear-like shape (or as we say, the plantilla is "pregnant at the hips"), the interior is typically varnished just like the exterior, and they are decorated with unusually thin rosettes and ornately carved headstocks. This is a particularly beautiful example in amazing condition with no cracks, no repairs, absolutely stunning. Apart from some very mild wear in the finish the guitar is incredibly preserved. This is a very late instrument from this workshop and even features a golden "MH" in the headstock to denote that it was completed by Manuel Hernandez (Aguado had died 2 years before this guitar was completed).

The sound is as expected from a great "HyA" which is just as distinctive as its appearance. The initial attack of the note is crisp and "snappy", almost like a snare-drum, while the body of the note which follows is airy and lightweight. These qualities allow for the player to achieve a high level of clarity and precision especially when playing quick, busy music while at the same, it is very expressive and lyrical when performing slower music. Very responsive and musical, these have been played throughout the decades by such greats as Regino Sainz de la Maza, John Williams, Julian Bream, and in recent years by Graham Anthony Devine. Very rare and very collectible.

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1974 Hernandez y Aguado SP/CSAR

Douglas Lora performs "Prelude No. 3" by Heitor Villa-Lobos on a 1974 Hernandez y Aguado guitar

1974 Hernandez y Aguado SP/CSAR

"A New Interconnected Order On Villa-Lobos Preludes" by Douglas Lora recorded on 5 DIFFERENT GUITARS

Description

Manuel Hernandez (1895-1975) and Victoriano Aguado (1897-1972) met and became friends while working together in a piano factory. They eventually formed a partnership and set up their own piano (and furniture) repair shop in Madrid. As legend has it, their great interest in the art of guitar making was secured sometime in the 1940’s when they leased out some space in their shop to Modesto Borreguero (one of the famed Manuel Ramirez workers) and became intrigued with his guitar making skills. Their instruments remain unique in the canon of great makers – they have an almost pear-like shape (or as we say, the plantilla is "pregnant at the hips"), the interior is typically varnished just like the exterior, and they are decorated with unusually thin rosettes and ornately carved headstocks. This is a particularly beautiful example in amazing condition with no cracks, no repairs, absolutely stunning. Apart from some very mild wear in the finish the guitar is incredibly preserved. This is a very late instrument from this workshop and even features a golden "MH" in the headstock to denote that it was completed by Manuel Hernandez (Aguado had died 2 years before this guitar was completed).

The sound is as expected from a great "HyA" which is just as distinctive as its appearance. The initial attack of the note is crisp and "snappy", almost like a snare-drum, while the body of the note which follows is airy and lightweight. These qualities allow for the player to achieve a high level of clarity and precision especially when playing quick, busy music while at the same, it is very expressive and lyrical when performing slower music. Very responsive and musical, these have been played throughout the decades by such greats as Regino Sainz de la Maza, John Williams, Julian Bream, and in recent years by Graham Anthony Devine. Very rare and very collectible.

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