Classical Guitars

 
Joshia de Jonge, Canada
Custom one of a kind 100th Anniversary Guitar (double top)
Materials: spruce/maple
Year: 2020
Condition: Pre-Owned
Status: In Stock
Price: $25,000.00
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Overview: Joshia de Jonge's exceptional concert instruments are a magnificent example of refined musicality, materials, and craft - simply put, musical and physical masterpieces. Her guitars combine northern European traditional tonal beauty with the quick response and laser-like projection of the most successful, innovative contemporary guitars.

Description: Capable of great flexibility,
subtlety, and power of expression, this player friendly concert guitar possesses a warm, deep, clear, creamy sound, and a wide palette of color and attack. Each note is like a polished jewel. Balance is excellent; playability is also excellent, offering one of the easiest actions and neck contours around.

Joahia de Jonge writes: "My Maple 100th Anniversary double top guitar has a fingerboard made from Ironwood from my husband Pat's family farm. The farm has been in his family for over seven generations. Pat cut the tree down several years ago and then cut fingerboard blanks from that tree. The back, sides, and top of my guitar are all laminated with eastern white cedar. My father and I visited a local sawmill about an hour north of my shop, and went through many boards to select some nice light colored quarter sawn cedar boards. I wanted all the woods in this guitar to be light colored. The back and sides are European maple, and the top is Swiss 'moon' spruce laminated with the same eastern white cedar."

Guitar number 100 includes a small discrete sound port with a magnetized adjustable port cover which allows the player to temper this instrument's tonal response to personal preference and individual room acoustics. Also featured here are Joshia de Jonge's unique vine pattern mosaic rosette and soundboard periphery marquetry which she designed to mark the occasion of her 100th guitar. (Learn more about this classical guitar maker).

Read an in depth interview with master guitar maker Joshia de Jonge in the January/February 2021 issue of Acoustic Guitar magazine. See also American Lutherie #137, Summer 2019 for a complementary in depth interview with Joshia de Jonge.

Materials: Swiss "moon" spruce/Nomex/eastern white cedar double top construction with tornavoz; Joshia de Jonge's proprietary all wood grid pattern bracing system; European maple sides and back laminated with eastern white cedar, maple head veneer; elevated ironwood fingerboard with twentieth fret extending under strings 1,2, and 3; "V" graft head to neck joint; sound port with magnetic maple cover; new proprietary Anniversary Model mosaic rosette and soundboard periphery marquetry; custom Rodgers tuning machine heads with sterling silver sideplates incorporating Joshia de Jonge's head stock crest ends, Anniversary Model leaf pattern engraving, and cream colored rollers with roller bearings and light colored mop oval buttons; French polish of shellac finish; 650mm string length, and Visesnot Active Series hardshell case.