Jaroslav Mach 1A (1982) Brazilian Rosewood - European Spruce, Case, EC

Classical Guitar by Jaroslav Mach 1982, featuring Solid 3 piece Brazilian Rosewood back, sides & bridge and headstock overlay, Scale length: 650mm and 53mm width at the nut. This is a remarkable guitar, with great tone and impressive dymanics.

Jaroslav Mach overhauled this guitar in 2012, and gave the guitar a new European mastergrade Spruce top that has aged over 30 years, with tight straight grain without ‘run-out’. The Neck has been given a new ebony fingerboard with new frets and the neck angle has been reset so the guitar plays with easy action and great comfort, new top of the line Gotoh 35G adjustable tuners have been added. In a way this guitar guitar is like new although one close look you will find some signs or age, and some evidence of having had a life before. One small side crack is repaired, and the guitar seen a re-varnish. However Jaroslav who is now living in the Czech Republic again, made a wonderful job of renewing this guitar. Sonically it's definitely a masterguitar, and better than new. In our opinion the Design and craftsmanship are truly excellent mastergrade quality. 

The first impression playing this guitar is that it has a big tone, full of richness and depth,The basses are strong with a beautiful deepness, the g and b strong are strong and persisting. A very colourful tone with a typical brightness and clarity heard in Spanish guitars. The guitar has a strong warm sound with excellent balance, clarity and long sustain and offers a wide range of tone colour variations with impressive power and projection and great substance. This guitar is outstanding value, and lives up to its wonderful looks and use of materials. The shape of the guitar, that looks a bit different to what i'm used too, is a normal size guitar, but feels extremely comfortable and relatively small

Czech born Master Guitar builder Jaroslav Mach started his career in the 70’s in The Netherlands after having escaped from then Czechoslovakia to the Netherlands in 1968. Mach’s classical guitars were exquisitely built from the very best materials, resulting in powerful sounding instruments. Mach’s classical guitars were played by a.o. the Swedish Guitar Trio, Jorgen Rorby, Timothy Walker, Saskia Spinder and Joop Koek (Segovia Guitar Quartet), Edith Leerkens (Herman van Veen) and others. Mach’s classical guitars were also sold in Japan by Nonaka Boeki Co.Ltd. Jaroslav Mach stopped making classical guitars in 1983. European Made- and to Europe imported Guitars made with Brazilian Rosewood before June 1992 are legally admitted to Europe.