2000 Robert Ruck No. 759 CD/IN

Year	2000
Top	Cedar
Back & Sides	Indian Rosewood
Scale Length	650 mm
Nut width	54 mm
Finish	French Polish Top
Country	USA
Luthier	Robert Ruck

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The top and sides of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood

The soundport of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood

Detail of the rosette of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood

Closeup of back center seam purfling of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood

The side, top, binding and purfling of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood

The front of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood on a white background

The side of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood on a white background

The back of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood on a white background

The rosette of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood

The headstock of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood on a white background

The label of a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar made with cedar and Indian rosewood

Heitor Villa-Lobos' "Prélude No. 4" performed by Max Müller on a 2000 Robert Ruck classical guitar

Description

This 2000 Robert Ruck is a cedar and Indian rosewood classical guitar, No. 759, with two soundports in the sides.

No. 759, with Soundports

Ruck fitted this guitar with two soundports in the upper sides, one on either side of the neck, sending more sound to the player. The label is signed and numbered #759.

Sound

A classic Ruck all around – perhaps one of the best we have heard: a firm, solid tone with a silky texture of partials, surprising volume and a very comfortable neck. It showed only very modest signs of use. Max Müller plays it in the video above.

Background

Robert Ruck: An American Original

Robert Ruck (1945–2018) was one of the most respected classical guitar makers in the United States, with a career of some five decades and well over a thousand instruments. He began as a flamenco guitarist in Miami – studying classical guitar with Juan Mercadal and flamenco singing with Elena Marbella – built his first guitars in the 1960s and later worked in Wisconsin and in the Pacific Northwest. In 2016 he was inducted into the Guitar Foundation of America’s Hall of Fame.

Barrueco and the Ruck Sound

The most famous Ruck of all is No. 58, the 1970s guitar on which Manuel Barrueco recorded many of his albums. Ruck guitars are known for a very firm, solid tone, deeply anchored to the fundamental of each note, with the hum of the higher partials adding texture, for surprising volume and for comfortable, easy necks. Many of his later guitars have soundports in the upper sides. His players included Sharon Isbin, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Berta Rojas, Leo Brouwer, Gerardo Núñez and Paulo Bellinati.