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92 years air dried Brazilian rosewood B&S, Doble tapa (Contreras style)+LATTICE BRACED ALPINE spruce top,  Gabon Ebony bindings, radiused fingerboard, armrest, and bridge. 640mm fret spacing. Lute type sound hole, Embossed leather case included. Soundport.   GORGEOUS SOUND, AMAZING BEAUTY !!   Here is a tremendous instrument that will fill your hours with wonderful and powerful music full of the richest harmonics and overtones you could possibly imagine. This was made possible thanks to a wonderful 92 years old set of Brazilian rosewood from Mato Grosso (Big Forest, Brazil) for the back and sides and a superb cut of Alpine spruce for the top. I do not think I have heard such powerful basses on a guitar before playing this beauty. Simply amazing. Huge reverberating basses that will make you wonder how can a guitar put out such a tremendous sound !? Wonderful to say the least. Mixed with the lattice braced spruce, the DOBLE TAPA Contreras style system has proven to be the most complete and reliable guitar sound possible. The huge basses created by the Brazilian rosewood B&S mixed with the crystalline trebles created by the lattice bracing combine in making what I consider the perfect guitar sound: Robust and shiny.  I added all the possible Bellucci enhancements to bring out all the sonic and aesthetic potential of the instrument: the slightly domed top, the ebony Armrest and violin tie, the mixed wood configuration for the lattice bracing and the soundport on the upper bout to allow the guitar to emanate the highest frequencies while enabling the guitar to project omnidirectionally while serving a secondary function of sound monitoring from the player's perspective.

 

Making the Contreras Doble tapa The lattice is a concept based on the A frame of grand pianos. The back and sides are kept rigid by means of a sturdy A shaped frame and the top is thinned as much as possible to allow the top to vibrate generously. As you see from the picture above, the thinned area is approximately 1.2 mm thick (VS 2-2.5 in the standard thinning techniques). Lattice delivers a lot of volume (approximately 21 dbs more) and wonderfully clear trebles. Brown plush interior Radiused or flat fingerboard? The radiused fingerboard has been around the acoustic and the electric guitar since day one. The same is true for most instruments of the Stringed family of instruments (violas, violins cellos, bass). Radiusing (image above) makes barre and left hand stopping A LOT easier. The only drawback is that you will NEVER want to play a  flat fingerboard after that. If you are having your custom guitar built, I am all pro radiusing the fingerboard.  The standard fingerboard is flat. The hand embossed leather case is a work of art on its own right. Built by one of a handful of very talented leather embossers in Latin America.  Its built following my specifications for the interior to fit Bellucci guitars like a glove. All Plush interior, key and accessories compartment. You can  request an upgrade to a Cow hive front and back version. 640mm or 650 mm? Regarding 650mm or 640 mm fingerboard fret spacing, keep the following rule at hand: If the distance between the tip of your thumb and the tip of your little finger is equal or less than 9 in. when fully stretched, use 640 mm. Adapting from one scale to the other takes no adaptation .

 

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