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CUSTOM GUITAR PRICE CALCULATOR

The waiting list stands at January, 2011

Custom Concert guitar PRICE CALCULATOR
*The options with an asterisk MUST be selected

Type of
Construction*

Classical (1400)
Flamenco (1400)
Parlor Classical (1400)
Acoustic (steel string) (1400)

Special Configuration
Cutaway (115)
SPECIAL Cutaway (220)

7 strings (550)
8 strings (850)
10 strings (1450)

Fingerboard*

Flat (0)
Radiused -16"- (80)

630,640, 650, 660 mm*

Stretch
630mm (77)
640mm (45)
650mm (0) standard
660mm (110)

Special Features

Armrest (80)
Sound port, in upper bout (70)
Lute type soundport upper bout (120)
Lute type soundport upper & lower bout (240)
Sound port, in lower bout(70)
Soundports in upper & lower bouts (140)
violin tie (140)

ULTRA Construction (470)

Elevated fingerboard

Special bracing techniques

Select the back and sides*

Brazilian rosewood (1150)
African Blackwood (1975)
Cocobolo (1150)
Maple (1150)
Macassar Ebony (1150)
Padauk (380)
Gabon Ebony (711)
Zebrawood (1150)
Koa Special figure (1150)
Ziricote (1150)
Goncalo Alves (1150)
Bubinga premium (1150)
Bloodwood (560)
Indian rosewood (380)
Peruvian Walnut High figure (1150)

Depending on availability, the
following woods are also available:

-Tasmanian Tiger Myrtle (1500)
-Tasmanian Blackwood (1150)
-African Walnut (1500)
-Waterfall Bubinga (1150)
-Brazilain rosewood Burl (3000)
-Primavera (580)
-High Figure Purpleheart (1150)
-Blackwood Acacia (1150)
-Monkey Pod (1150)
-Snakewood (1150)
-Ziricote (1150)
-Lapacho (380)
-Figured Maples (1150)
-Leopardwood (1150)

Tuners*

Argentinean gold plated tuners (0)
Carved gold plated w.
white buttons (58)
Carved gold plated w.
black buttons (64)
Exclusive Hand painted tuners (150)
Bronze tuners with Rosewood buttons (120)
Aged process Precision Tuners (150)

Inlay work

Mother of Pearl Inlay work on the fingerboard, headstock, bridge and violin tie (680)

Electronics, Truss rod

Truss rod adjustable (350)
Truss rod non-adjustable (50)
Artec 4-band Eq. digital Tuner (390)
Pearl position marker on 7 (33)
Pearl position markers on 3, 5, 7, 9, 12
(198)
Gold position marker on 7 (50)
Gold position markers on 3, 5, 7, 9, 12
(300)
Diamond pos. marker on 7 (75)
Diamond pos. markers on 3, 5, 7, 9, 12
(375)

Nut and saddle*

bone (0)
buffalo horn (55)

Number of frets*
19 (standard) (0)
20 (40)

Rosette*

Handmade Wood Rosettes (44)
Wood w/ Mother of Pearl rosette (120)
Mother Pearl rosette (120)
Exclusive matching wood burl rosette (140)

Select the top*

Western redcedar (0)
Italian Spruce (180)
Port Orford (250)
Canadian spruce (0)
Sinker redwood (350)
Alpine Spruce (245)
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Depending on availability, the
following woods are also available:

-Maple Quilts and burls (450)
-Curly Brazilian rosewood (750)
-Brazilain rosewood Burl (750)

Type of Bracing*

Hauser (0)
Flamenco (0)
Lattice (110)
Double top Nomex (300)
Doble Tapa "Contreras" (200)
Doble Tapa "Contreras" Variation
1 (260)
Doble Tapa "Contreras" Variation
1 + Lattice (350)
Doble Tapa "Contreras" + Lattice (310)
Double Top Nomex + D.T.Contreras (500)
Double Top Nomex + D.T.Contreras V1 (560)

Accessories

Guitar Bag (25)
Pro hardshell (299)
Premium leather case (299)
Gold plaque with your name (149)
Guitar Humidifier (49)

DHL shipping*
DHL shipping to Americas (164)
DHL Shipping to Europe & Africa (203)
DHL shipping to Asia & Oceania (258)

Insurance (MANDATORY)
Insurance (59)
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TOTAL US$

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.Below are a few Bestselling models

Brazilian rosewood, The wood for the classical player... US$ 2,594	African Blackwood the most amazing tonewood on the planet US$ 3,419	ZEBRAWOOD, Everything you dream of a concert guitar... US$ 2,990
African Padauk, delivers music with fire and passion... US$ 1,824	LIMITED EDITION	Maple, Beauty and purity beyond words... US$ 2,594
African Walnut, the putity of wood from the heart of Africa LIMITED EDITION	KOA, Jewel wood from the Hawaiian Islands US$ 2,594	Waterfall Bubinga, a Tropical waterfall LIMITED EDITION
Primavera wood, the wood from Paradise US$ 1,980	Tasmanian Tiger Myrtle, AMAZING ! LIMITED EDITION	Cocobolo, a gift from the gods to guitar players... US$ 2,594
7, 8 or 10-Strings, to take guitar music to the limit	Tigerwood, the name says it all. Stunning to look at LIMITED EDITION	Snakewood, when wood becomes a reptile's skin LIMITED EDITION

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These are the main characteristics or Spruce, cedar and redwood: Spruce will give you a brighter crispier sound with more punch....open, clear tone. Cedar, will be a little warmer. Spruce takes longer to open up. You can also see it this way: Baroque Classical and Renaissance music will sound better on spruce, Romantic, Spanish and program music will sound better on cedar. These are of course generalizations and what is definitely true is that both Cedar and Spruce make for excellent sound boards. Redwood is very similar to Cedar but with more presence. Italian Spruce is my favorite. Brilliant sound and tight grain. Port Orford cedar has qualities of both Spruce and cedar. Sinker redwood is simply outstanding but rare and expensive. If you have other wood varieties in mind for the top, let me know.

640mm or 650 mm?

Guitar scale lenght

stretch

Regarding 650mm or 640 mm guitar construction, 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 (image above). In over 33 years teaching and playing the classical guitar and having worked closely with such great teachers as the Spaniard Jose Tomas and the Uruguayan Abel Carlevaro, it came clear to me that often hard to polish musical passages were not the fault of the player but a fault of the scale used for the fingerboard. Modern guitar construction is no longer dependent on scale length to produce a substantial volume. When we talk about scale length we are talking to the relative distance of the frets from one another... we are talking millimeters or fraction of a millimeter, but it is these fractions that make all the difference between flawless and sloppy technique....let alone the great frustration that derives from never being able to polish a given musical passage.

Radiused or flat fingerboard?

radiused

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. When you relax the hand, you will notice that the natural shape is with a slight curve on all 5 fingers. Pros playing is about achieving to perform on the guitar in as much a natural and relaxed manner. Whenever you part from these directives, you are making your path to perfection steeper.
The radius is standards on the acoustic, electric and archtop (jazz) guitar and, if you look closely, you will notice that these players will use lot less energy than classical players and that their fingers are almost always curved.

Machine head:.

model 1: Argentinean Luxury Gold plated tuners
model 2: Carved Gold plated tuners w/ white buttons
model 3: Carved Gold plated tuners w/ black buttons
model 4: Exclusive Bellucci hand painted tuners
model 5: Bronze tuners with Rosewood buttons
model 6: Aged process Precision Tuners

Type of construction for the top:

1) Hauser: (IMAGE BELOW) It is perhaps the most traditional type of bracing for the classical guitar. It consists of a set of measures first introduced by the Spaniard Torres and later taken to its perfect format by the German Hermann Hauser III. Segovia played Hauser braced guitars for decades before he switched to the the Double top (Doble tapa)

2) 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 and wonderfully clear trebles.
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3) The Double top was introduced by Manuel Contreras II and refers to an additional piece of wood that is covering the inside of the back. "Tapa" in Spanish means back. Therefore, the Contreras Double top is actually a Double back. The other variation to the doble tapa, is a system I first saw and played on a 1986 Ramirez Doble tapa when I lived in Madrid. The system was a Contreras based one nevertheless. Choose Doble tapa if you want a SPANISH sound.
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4) The Double top Variation 1 (IMAGE BELOW), is a variation to the doble tapa Contreras. It is extremely powerful. It consists of a second top (normally cedar) that runs parallel to the first one halfway between the top and the back. It is the system that better seems to show what one would expect a double top to look like. The 2 tops are connected through the sides and the transversal struts and the resulting sound is full and very powerful. This is the most laborious of the 3 doble tops from a construction point of view. It is my preferred type of bracing and augments volume and sustain exponentially.
Doble tapa, variation 1

5) The double top with Nomex is also known as hollow top or composite top, consists of a sandwich type of construction where a thin layer of synthetic fire retarding material (Nomex) is inserted between two super-thin tops. The total thickness of the 3-layered top is equivalent to a normal top. The center layer is practically speaking hollow, therefore it is also called "hollow guitar top". This is more expensive because 2 tops+Nomex and special adhesives have to be used in the construction... Double top makes the sound of the guitar stay up longer before it decays. It brings about balance in the voices.
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Double top with Nomex core

Let me clarify that all the above types of constructions make for world class concert instruments. It is likely that if none of these sound familiar, than you always played on a Torres... (The system that Herman Hauser later perfected). The other systems are more expensive because more time is required in the preparation but they are not better nor worse, they are different. So that you can refer to sound in order to to decide, keep this in mind: John Williams' sound until 1986 was Hauser. John Williams' sound since 1986 is Lattice. Andres Segovia's sound from the 1980s is Double top (Var.1)

You can also hear hundreds of samples I recorded of the different types of bracings here . Do not hesitate to ask help m@il Maestro Bellucci

Rosettes

Soundport
Special guitar features
The hole in the upper and/or lower bout is called Soundport or Monitor hole. It augments the trebles output and works as a sound monitor for the performer. I highly recommend this. I offer a simple version (image above to the left) and a more stylized version that resembles a Lute Rosette.
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Violin tie and Armrest
Special features
The violin type of bridge is a great input in guitar construction. A lot of the strain caused to the guitar top by the pull of the strings is taken away prolonging the life of the woods for many decades. The armrest is also genial because it keeps the tendons in the forearm more relaxed and is a source of comfort during performance. The armrest also prevents the armrest from interfering with the vibrating top. Both look fantastic.

Highly detailed mother of pearl inlay
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Inlay work on the fingerboard, headplate, violin tie and bridge.

Add US$ 688 for mother of pearl inlay fingerboard
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The mother of pearl inlay work adds immense beauty to the guitar. It is a labor of endless patience and elevates the guitar to an artistic level of AMAZING proportions. It is made entirely by hand and will keep you in awe for hours at a time.

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Adjustable truss rod

The action on Bellucci guitars is set-up for maximum playability. Still, some players like to try different strings and the thickness changes from brand to brand resulting in unwanted buzzes. Acoustic and electric guitar players are especially attached to this gadget. The Truss rod is an excellent remedy which is a lot safer than tinkering with the saddle and nut bones. The action is only moved a few millimeters or fractions of a millimeter by means of a regulator which is placed on the headstock, after the nut. The truss rod is not meant to adjust the height of the strings on the fingerboard but to counter the pull or thickness of the strings especially if you like high tension strings. Still, over 99% of the world classical guitars do not carry a truss rod. I have received the request in the past and I want to offer the option to my customers. One thing is sure, the truss rod will keep your neck straight for several lifetimes.... I built my spruce top with a truss rod and I love the gadget !

Classical or cutaway

Position markers:

Position markers are used by novice and pros alike. Using them is a very personal decision. They come very handy helping one of memory's strongest allies: sight. These can be of mother of pearl, Gold or Diamond.

position markers
mother of pearl

guitar position markers

-Diamond, brilliant cut, position markers (below)

Number of frets

Most classical guitars on the planet use 19 frets. Some pieces like Agustin Barrios Mangoré "Un Sueño en la Floresta", require a high C on string 1. Those players who do not have 20 frets, have to glue a matchstick yo the fingerboard in order to play the piece....

19 (standard)
or 20 frets (more frets on request)

18 kt gold plaque with your name

Solid 18kt gold plaque with your name engraved

Electronics

Onboard equalizers have no effect on the acoustic performance of the instrument. Installing them, is not just a matter of making a couple of holes on the ring but a time consuming highly precise labor. The tuner which comes with the EQ is in my opinion a GREAT plus which you will find useful many times over.

Optional Artec 4 band Eq/digital chromatic tuner

.Guitar Humidifier If you live in a cold region of the world, where heaters are used in the Winter, I suggest you buy a humidifier. Heaters can dry the air to a point where the woods begin to suffer. Humidity should be kept around 40%. This extremely practical humidifier is kept in the accessories case within the guitar case. .
Essential Guitar Humidifier

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Bellucci label

The New BELLUCCI Label

PREMIUM GUITAR CASE (hand embossed leather)

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. It's built following my specifications for the interior to fit Bellucci guitars like a glove. All Plush interior. You can request that your initials be engraved on the case.

Standard Professional Guitar Case or PREMIUM Leather GUITAR CASE:
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Exclusive embossed leather case, 100% handmade, Cow hide option

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Shipping: DHL Worldwide, in an indestructible wood crate (8 mm thick reinforced walls). Receiving my guitar...

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renato@mangore.com
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