Kenneth Brögger: Hand-built classical guitar, 2019, made after Torre's model from 1890

Automatic translation from Danish.

Kenneth Brögger. Hand-built classical guitar, made after Antonio Torres' model from 1890. Spanish cypress sides and back, Alpine spruce top, Honduran cedar neck and ebony fingerboard. Mounted with frictionless tuning screws. Scale length 648 mm. Full length 975 mm. Inside label marked 'Por de Antonio Torres, Amieria, Ano de 1890, Segunda Epoca, No. 144' and 'Copia del original por Kenneth Brögger, 2019'. Also with label from later restoration marked 'Restaurado por Kenneth Brögger, 2024'. The bottom of the side with repartion after hole, this, as the label indicates, was made by Brögger himself. The guitar has an exquisite sound despite this. New and unused Hiscox flight case included. This guitar is built from exact measurements from an Antonio Torres 2nd epoch model from 1890 with correct dimensions and proportions and thickness of the wood. The guitar was previously described by Tim Miklaucic and David Collett from Guitar Salon International, USA with the following review: “This instrument is a near-exact reproduction of an original second-epoch Torres from 1890 in Brögger's personal collection of fine instruments. The dimensions, thicknesses of woods, proportions and aesthetic details of the original have been meticulously reproduced. The resulting guitar is in our opinion the finest and most authentic Torres copy we have ever seen. It is astonishing just how close this is to the original, not just in weight (1 gram difference) and appearance, but also in sound. Brögger has somehow captured the magic of Torres in a way we have never before seen”.