José Luis Romanillos 1996 extremely rare classical master guitar with impressive sound qualities!
José Luis Romanillos Vega comes from Madrid and was originally a carpenter. He later moved to England to work there. It was in England that José Luis Romanillos built his first Spanish guitar and was encouraged to start guitar making workshops by the famous English guitarist Julian Bream. In 1970 J. L. Romanillos founded a guitar making workshop in Semley, Wiltshire. These workshops are legendary. They were held in many countries, as well as lectures and seminars on the organology of the guitar.
He has also lectured on the history and development of the vihuela de mano and the Spanish guitar. He was also a member of the Crafts Council of Great Britain for ten years.
In 2002, together with his wife Marian, he published an encyclopedia on string instrument makers and guitar makers in Spain entitled „The Vihuela de Mano and the Spanish Guitar“.
His research on Antonio de Torres and his book „Antonio De Torres: Guitar Maker His Life and Work“ are also famous worldwide.
Romanillos guitars are appreciated by guitarists from all over the world for their sound quality and aesthetic appearance. Pure sound and harmonic balance of voices are what Romanillos strived for and achieved in his search for the subtle „Spanish sound“. The Daily Mail has called him „the Stradivarius of the guitar“ and the Italian magazine Sei Corde „the most important living string instrument maker“.
This guitar bears the name „La Pinonera“ and was built in 1996. It has the number 750.
It is signed by father and son both on the label and on the inside under the top. It is an outstanding concert model, richly decorated with inlays and featuring the legendary rosette inspired by the Mosque of Cordoba.
The back is made of Indian rosewood. The top is made of fine, carefully selected spruce. The scale length is 650 mm and the nut width is 52 mm.
The guitar has taken on a magnificent honey color and shows only a few traces of use, as it has been treated with care over the years.
The sound of this guitar is pure, rich in color, round, full of character and offers many possibilities. What a pleasure to have such a gem in the range. The playability is excellent, but it is really the purity and richness of the tone that captivates the guitarist.
Like all Romanillos, it is a guitar that requires a certain amount of dedication from the guitarist to fully open up, and rewards the musician with its soulful charm.
The guitar comes with the original case.
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