Re: 1995 Hermann Hauser III Segovia Model Classical Guitar

Date: 24 Jun 2003 17:39:04 -0700
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"David Schramm" <email-address-deleted> wrote in message news:<7fQJa.4370$Bg.2832@rwcrnsc54>...
> This is a great guitar. By the looks of it and with my conversations with
> Jeff this is a top notch guitar. Jeff has first class taste and doesn't buy
> anything second rate. I've played and inspected over 30+ Hauser guitars
> and this one looks very clean. I'd buy it but I'm sure my wife would leave
> me and take the kids ;-)
Last Summer I got to play Pepe Romero's 1938 Hauser, which was being
sold on consignment at GSI. This one even had a tornavox, can you
believe it?
It was a great guitar, and the 6th string had this incredibly deep and
resonant "woof" to it that just sort of huffed it's way out of the
guitar. I know this is impossible, but it was _almost_ as if you heard
the resonance of the note _before_ the attack noise. I guess it was
just that the note was so resonant, and the sound bloomed so quickly
that it quickly drowned out the attack. I played another guitar with a
tornavox, a Sanfeliu, at Beverly Maher's place in NYC. It had a
similar "woofy" bass, and was a great guitar also, but not in the same
league as the Hauser.
BTW, I just got an email from Christie's auction house, an invitation
to consign instruments. Interestingly, it came with this note:
A fine German classical guitar by Hermann Hauser Sr., Munich, 1936
Sold for $93,210
April 2002
New York, Rockefeller Center
Great guitars, very pricey.
Tony Morris