1988 Paul Fischer (1941-) Ex Collection: Joao Luiz Rezende - French Polish

650 mm Scale, 52 mm Nut. Fine to Medium grain Spruce and Indian rosewood back and sides. 7 Fan braces and a Bouchet brace that covers 3 of the fans, and 2 closing bars - David Rubio was doing this since 1967. French polish. Separate pieces attaching the top to the sides and a cut kerfing liner used to attach the back to the sides. Stamped PF under the fretboard on the top. The Opus number on the lower left corner is difficult to read, but it is known he had built at least 650 guitars before this one.

This weighs: 1,649 grams = 57.456 ozs. = 3 lbs. 9 1/2 ozs.

2 old repaired cracks next to the fretboard.

The legendary luthier who began guitarmaking in the David Rubio workshop continues today, he began making harpsichords and clavichords in 1956, then taught David Rubio how to make them, becoming independent in 1975.

Joao Luiz Rezende: João is the director of chamber music at CUNY Hunter College and guitar professor at Yale School of Music. He is also a two time Latin Grammy nominee guitarist.

There are several other videos of this guitar on You Tube.

Well over 2 dozen concert guitarists have depended on their use of his guitars:
1 Amsterdam Guitar Trio
2 Badi Assad
3 Odair Assad
4 Sergio Assad
5 Paulo Bellinati
6 Johan Dorrestein
7 Eduardo Fernandez
8 Olga Franssen
9 Gerald Garcia
10 Nicola Hall
11 Forbes Henderson
12 Robin Hill
13 Yasuaki Hiura
14 Marcelo Kayath
15 Hughes Kolp
16 João Luiz Resende
17 John Mills
18 Omega Guitar Quartet
19 Konrad Ragossnig
20 Ruben Riera
21 Helenus de Rijke
22 Jukka Savijoki
23 Pavel Steidl
24 John Taylor
25 Jason Vieaux
26 Jason Waldron
27 Peter Wiltschinsky
28 Yang Xuefei