Maple B&S, Cedar Top “Letizia” Concert Classical Guitar

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Customizable Specifications
- Maple B&S
- Scale: 650mm (Customizable)
- Cedar Top
- Da Vinci Construction
- Hauser Bracing (Customizable)
- 52mm Bone Nut & Saddle
- Maple Fingerboard
- Maple Armrest
- Soundport
- Indented Cutaway
- Paraguayan Cedar Neck
- Triple Neck Reinforcement/Decoration
- Maple Lute Type Rosette
- Flashy Headstock
- Lattice
- Lute Type Rosette
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- High & Rare Figure
- Bellucci Limited Edition

Maple B&S, Cedar Top “Letizia”

“Letizia” Model BML101

This amazing beauty was commissioned by my dear friend and colleague Leticia Chaves. The guitar is part of the “Da Vinci” Bellucci Guitars Series and she’s one of a kind. Quilted Maple was used for the Back & Sides and a Master Grade set of Western Redcedar for the top. Indented cutaway with soundport and a Lute-type rosette add the touches to a masterpiece work of luthery. It took over 300 hours of passionate labor to complete Leti’s jewel.

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Add/remove extra

1- Position markers:

Add/remove extra Diamond mark: 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 15, 17, 19 — 600.00

2- Construction of the top:

Add/remove extra Barbero (Flamenco) — 450.00

3- 4-band equalizer / digital tuner
$ 490.00

Add/remove extra Barbero (Flamenco) — 450.00

4- Violin tie
$ 220.00

Add/remove extra Barbero (Flamenco) — 450.00

5- Scale (fret spacing)

Add/remove extra 615 (Small Hands, AMAZINGLY Comfortable) — 120.00

6- Radiused Fingerboard

Add/remove extra 20 in. Radius — 140.00

7- Type of finish

Add/remove extra French Polish Top, Matte Finish B&S — 450.00

8- Elevated Fingerboard
$ 490.00

Add/remove extra French Polish Top, Matte Finish B&S — 450.00

9- Nut and Saddle

Add/remove extra Buffalo Horn — 66

10- Professional Cases

The Ultralight Travel Case is a very sturdy and extremely light case that protects the guitar very well while allowing the player to carry the instrument without adding more weight than strictly necessary. It is covered in black plush inside and has 2 pockets on the outside and an accessories compartment on the inside. 2 Straps to carry it on the back as a backpack or over the shoulder.
Bellucci guitars are decorated using marvelous wood marquetry to enhance all her lines and put an accent on specific parts of the construction. The marquetry requires anywhere between 35 & 90 hours of highly skilled labor to be inlayed throughout the guitar. It is made entirely by hand using knives that each luthier typically manufactures himself. It takes the guitar to unsuspected levels of beauty. The marquetry also constitutes an often critical point of release of tension which is caused by the constant expanding and contracting of the woods used in guitar construction. These are due to such factors such as humidity and ambience temperature.
The Bellucci Limited Edition logo and label will be assigned to guitars I build using extremely rare and amazingly figured woods in the construction for both the back and sides and/or the top. These sets are selected among hundreds of sets and their price is significantly higher that the standard figured counterparts. 7 of the world best "wood hunters" all the way from South East Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas are constantly on the lookout to provide me with some amazing sets for the Limited Edition series.
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. 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.
The armrest prevents the forearm to interfere with the vibration of the top thus adding a few extra decibels to the instrument. Plus it looks great !
The Soundport allows the modern guitar to project sound in all directions as well as providing the player a perfect monitoring of his playing. The traditional Spanish guitar did not produce as much sound as the contemporary instrument does. I recommend the Soundport to all my customers.
Bellucci Guitars wear some of the best tuners available on the market. Schaller, Gotoh & Waverly. All models are Gold plated and are designed to last for a lifetime.
The Bellucci Triple Neck Reinforcement (Maple-Rosewood-Maple) adds beauty and resilience to the neck allowing us to build it slim and when coupled to the Carbon Fiber Truss rod or the Adjustable Truss Rod, it ensures a beautiful and straight neck for several generations no matter what string tension or brand you use.
The 9-braces Hauser fan is the result of many years of experimenting. It is based on Torres 4 fan brace design which was later developed by the German luthier Hermann Hauser. The braces act as sound vibrations highways. They carry the vibration of each string to a specific spot on the soundboard. The variations on the 9 braces fan is enormous. The Luthier taylors each fan to achieve a specific sound and match the instrument with the rest of the woods used in the construction. I often use a mixture of Cedar, Spruce and Mahogany to achieve the best separation of voices. When I add the extra transversal strut in the Rodriguez style, it enhances the sound of treble string enormously.
The indented cutaway is both very beautiful and extremely useful. It requires the highest level of luthery to be made and when it comes to playability, it allows the player to access the F# on fret 14 with amazing ease thus covering the 14 most used frets in the classical guitar.
The Da Vinci Series is inspired by the great Tuscan Renascence man Leonardo Da Vinci. He was from the small town of "Vinci" and "Da Vinci" means "from Vinci". The Bellucci Da Vinci Series incorporates some genial add ons to the traditional guitar construction like special bracing in all its variations using a vast array of woods for the fan and Nomex for the Doubletop and a special Lute Type rosette which is the Signature feature and the sound ports strategically located for an involving sound.
Some Sets for either the Back and Sides, for the Top or both can be quite stunning and rare when it comes to the figure and grain that they display. It is as if nature, knowing the final destiny of its creature, "prepared" the wood in such a way that its grain, hidden to the human eye and to the world, silently develops a breathtaking beauty that comes to life when the dead tree is sawn. Getting the same identical figure is practically speaking impossible but I strive at getting figured wood that resembles and transmits the same vital impression as the one here depicted