Pedro Maldonado Handmade in Spain Classical Guitar 1993

Great playing handmade Spanish classical guitar from famous Malaga luthier Pedro Maldonado. Beautiful sound and great condition. Full rich sound you would expect from a master builder like Maldonado. Look at what some of his new builds sell for today and you will see this is definitely priced to sell!

Guitar type: Classical, Pedro Maldonado

Year: Approx. 1993

Scale length: 25 5/8"

Width at nut: 1 15/16

Frets to body: 12

Action@ 12th fret: 1st 9/64 / 6th 10/64

Top: Solid Spruce

Back and sides: Laminate

Bracing: Fan

Neck: Mahogany

Headplate: Rosewood

Fingerboard: Ebony

Bridge: Rosewood

Binding: Rosewood

Perfling: see pictures

Inlay: N/A

Machines: Classical

Truss Rod: N/A

Finish: Lacquer

Case: Softshell chipboard case

About the builder…

Pedro Maldonado was born in Loja (Granada) in 1.929 in Las Parras Street. His father was a furniture maker and Pedro junior began helping his father
in the carpentry shop when he was a teenager.
Very soon Pedro Maldonado junior had interest in guitar building and other instruments. He dreamed to make these fantastic instruments with his own
hands. His father took him to Granada in order to develop this art with the help of some guitar makers from the famous "Escuela Granadina". They
met Manuel de la Chica, Eduardo Ferrer an Antonio Robles, all of them famous guitar builders in this arabian city. They showed to the young
Pedro the mysteries of this art and they developed a great relationship. Pedro was in love with the flamenco guitar sound and started playing it
with great pleasure. Sometimes "Radio Loja" contacted him to accompany the flamenco singers of the area. It was in 1959 when Pedro Maldonado decided to open his first workshop in
"Calle Caus, 16" where he started making his first guitars.

Since Pedro Maldonado was always a good worker, he started to make excellent instruments right away. It was then that he started receiving orders from "Casa Damas" in Sevilla, a flamenco store with a great
reputation. Pedro made for them some guitars made out of rosewood. He was having more and more orders and after some years he decided to move to
Malaga.
His new workshop was located in "Barriada de Sixto" where soon his instruments attracted the attention of a well known guitarist by the name of "Rafael de Antequera" who was surprised with both the sound and the workmanship of the guitars."If this guitar has a pretty face , the best is its heart, I buy it " he said.
Three years later he moved his shop to a new place in "Avda. Velazquez 59". It was then he received lots of orders and his reputation grew rapidly. He worked 14 hours daily in order to make all the orders he had
from different parts of the world: United States , Japan , Germany , Great Britain , Australia , etc...Music stores were interested in selling Pedro
Maldonado guitars , such as: "Azzato" in Bruxelles , "Ivor Mairants" and
"Juan Teijeiro Music"in London , "Zavaleta Casa de las Guitarras"

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