Francisco Casasnovas was born in Palma de Mallorca in 1816. He began making guitars and bandurrias in 1845 and opened his workshop at Plaza de la Merced 1 in Palma de Mallorca.
He trained his sons, Bartolome Casasnovas i Fiol and Miguel Casasnovas de Fiol. When he died, his sons took over the workshop and built Casasnovas guitars until 1927.
The construction of their guitars was of excellent quality and the wood was of very high quality. They distributed guitars to all Spanish cities, especially Santiago de Compostela, and also built flamenco guitars, mainly for guitarists in Andalusia.
They also received many orders from outside Spain, especially from Argentina.
They exhibited a guitar at the exhibition in Barcelona in 1888 and won a prize. They also became famous for a mechanism for changing the tension of the strings.
Casasnovas guitars are still famous among players today and are part of many famous guitar collections.
This guitar is a perfect example of a Casanovas guitar. Beautifully built, with excellent materials. It has a fine spruce top and a beautiful maple back. The sides are made of a different material, similar to the baroque guitars. It appears to be a type of rosewood. The scale length is 642 mm and the nut width is 50 mm.
This guitar is light as a feather and perfectly crafted in every detail.
It is a great example of a high quality guitar - it is simply exquisite in its sound quality. Every note is rich in overtones, while maintaining an almost unbelievable level of separation and clarity between each note. Due to its ultra-lightweight construction, tone production is immediate, with an abundant amount of tonal modulation and dynamic range. This guitar also has tremendous power, which immediately dispels the rumor that old guitars have a bad sound!
The guitar plays very nicely, with a low action and a comfortable neck. It has been lightly restored.
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