Very beautiful historic guitar by famous luthier Salvador Ibanez, built around 1900. Fantastic looking guitar with an impressive sound!
Salvador Ibáñez (1854-1920) was a Spanish guitar maker. He built all kinds of stringed instruments. These instruments were considered the best of their time and are prized for their outstanding quality and impeccable workmanship.
At the age of eleven, Ibáñez became an apprentice guitar maker in Calle Muela Valencia.
In 1870, he founded his own company: Salvador Ibáñez y Albiñara. The company was registered in Calle Cubells. Ten-year-old José Ibáñez and Magdalena Albiñara y Magraner from Ollería, Valencia, worked in his business. In 1896 he first appeared in the trade guides on Calle Ruzafa Valencia and from 1898 to 1906 his store was located on Calle Bajada de San Francisco. Salvador Ibáñez made bandurias, lutes, six- and nine-string guitars and also guitars with detachable necks.
In 1897, he built the world's first double-neck guitar. From 1915 to 1920, Salvador Ibáñez e Hijos (Salvador Ibáñez and Sons) was located in Calle Bajada de San Francisco and Calle Padre Rico Valencia.
When he died in 1920, the workshop was run by his two sons until it was sold to Telesforo Julve in 1933. Julve bought the name Salvador Ibanez, the staff and the machines and incorporated them into his own company.
Julian Bream played a Salvador Ibáñez guitar. Eric Clapton has owned several original Salvador Ibáñez guitars, one of which fetched a final price of 42,000 US dollars at a charity auction in 1999.
It is a pleasantly light guitar, finely built with a beautifully colored rosette, a straightforward design and a beautiful headstock shape.
This guitar has a wonderful vintage sound, the playability is incredibly comfortable and the guitar responds to the finest touch.
It has a lyrical, singing quality to the sound and the basses are thick and well present. She can be very loud with a penetrating volume and still maintain a charming tone.
It is a truly graceful instrument with a fascinating sound.
If someone is looking for a light flamenco guitar with that typical old world and deep flamenco sound at a reasonable price ... then this is the guitar for you!
The guitar is in a restored and playable condition. The scale length is 648 mm and the nut width 51 mm. The top is made of fine Alpine spruce and the back and sides of very beautiful, high-quality cypress.
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