John Price Cedar Lattice Bracing, 2016

This John Price guitar is a top class concert instrument! It meets the most professional musical demands and holds its own in ensemble playing as well as a soloist instrument.

John Price is considered one of the most important guitar builders in Australia after Greg Smallman. Thus, the guitar presented here was also built with the lattice bracing developed by Smallman, a diagonally arranged reinforcement bracing of the top. This makes the Price guitar the loudest concert guitar in our current range, because the lattice bracing, which in this case is also reinforced with carbon, allows the top to be made extremely thin.

At the same time, this top construction is extremely light, stable and very flexible in the desired directions.

The guitar comes up with a very modern classical guitar tone, which makes it musically versatile.
A very easy response, a rich, warm-creamy tone and an extremely easy playability characterize this master guitar. Complementing the super-light top, the rest of the body is very solidly built. The back, on the other hand, does not need any bracing at all, as it is molded of several veneer layers and recurved like an archtop.

Thanks to the split bridge inlay and compensated top nut, the John Price intonates extremely precisely. An armrest relieves the right forearm when playing.

Other important features are the double string holes in the bridge, the high-end tuners by Nicolo Alessi and the elevated fingerboard above the top.

Year of manufacture: 2016
Serial No. 355
Top: Canadian cedar with carbon reinforced lattice bracing
Back & sides: Jacaranda Pardo
Neck: Mahogany with comfortable C profile.
Fingerboard: Ebony with 19 frets
Bridge: Indian rosewood with double holes
Armrest: Walnut, black colored
Body binding: Australian Blackwood
Top nut and bridge saddles: Bone
Machine heads: Alessi with ebony knobs
Scale length: 65cm
Nut width: 52mm
Case included

The string action is set at 3mm for the E1st and a good 4mm for the E6th at the 12th fret. The height of the bridge saddles is still adjustable in any direction for individual adjustments. Additional fitting bridge saddles and fitting top nuts are included.

The guitar has one previous owner who received it new from the builder and had two strap buttons installed. After accidental damage, cracks in the top were professionally repaired and the top was then completely refinished. Despite the repair, the guitar has fully retained its tonal qualities is in technically perfect condition.

The guitar is ready to play and can be tested in our shop in Berlin, Germany.