Custom Made Classical Guitars

Well, recently, as I was playing my classical guitar, I noticed how the sound has changed over the years. 15 years of playing the same instrument has caused to become seasoned. It sounded fantastic! This guitar, to me is one of the most amazing instruments I’ve ever played in my life! And boy am I proud to have own a classical guitar. Over the years, many friends have asked me to sell away my Classical Guitar, a first generation Yamaha C60. Though this guitar is very much like an ordinary guitar when I first bought it, over the years, the plywood top and been seasoned and how produces amazing acoustics.

Yamaha C60 was built for beginning and intermedia learners in Classical Guitar. However, I have my sights on something more. Over the years, I’ve been asking myself, when will I be able to get my hands on a custom made Classical Guitar? Hmm…I’m not going to sell my current guitar, so don’t even dream about it. I like to keep it as a guitar that I’m going to use for practice.

As for the custom guitar that I’m eyeing, I want to use it for performance purposes.

The custom guitar is a custom made, African Blackwood top Classical Guitar, which currently costs about US$ 3,375 to be made. I found it on this following website: http://www.mangore.com/

It has to be ordered months before and then it will be made and delivered within 5 months! Now, you can imagine how much effort, time and money goes into making this piece of amazing instrument. A conversion of the US amount to SGD will amount to SGD 5,011.20. Ooo…what a price! But, well, I love the qualities and sound potential of the African Blackwood. The wood produces such great acoustics, it can split the bass and treble sounds very clearly.

Not just that, its also one of the hardest wood to ever work with to make a musical instrument. Only less than 3 music instruments on this planet is made from African Blackwood. And this particular classical guitar is made from that material!

Time to start saving up for the guitar! Work like crazy if I have to. I’m going to make the money to get myself the guitar you see on the right! Ahhh!!! I’m a fan of African Blackwood!

In the near future, as I make more performances…after I get back on course and into shape, I’ll consider investing in more custom made classical guitars. Each guitar, made of different material will be used to project different kind of sounds. Aged Brazilian rosewood is very good also. This is a wood that has at least the age of 90 years. Its hard to harvest, because its found at the bottom of amazon river. You have to be nuts I would say, to order a custom made guitar from this material. It’s so expensive, it belongs to the higher end of performance classical guitar. Still, I think I’m crazy enough to have my eyes on it! Who knows, one of these days, I might be able to afford the Classical Guitar made of Brazilian Rosewood!