DescriptionTechnical description: Cheap mass-produced guitar. Red stained birch plywood soundboard, side and back. Soundhole 85mm diameter. White plastic purfling around the inside edge of the soundhole. Ebony bridge with metal (nickel?) saddle. Ebony bridge pins with mother-of-pearl dots. Bridge 153mm long, 28.5mm wide. Rosewood endpin with mother-of-pearl dot. Heel, neck and head of one piece of maple. Nickel plated machine heads with brass rollers and white plastic buttons. Brass nut, raised to allow steel playing, the strings being about 8mm above the fretboard. Fingerboard of black stained maple, with frets underneath a printed brown notation label running the length of the fingerboard.
Overall size: 940
Body length: 457
Body width, upper bouts: 248
Body width, waist: 198
Body width, lower bouts: 343
Body depth: 87.5 (bottom) - 84 (heel)
String length: 629
Affixed label glued to the head above the machine heads reads "FIRST / HAWAIIAN / CONSERVATORY / OF MUSIC, INC.". Label under the soundhole reads "FIRST / HAWAIIAN / CONSERVATORY / OF MUSIC INC. / 9th Floor / WOOLWORTH B'LDG. / New York City." Printed notation label over the fretboard giving the open string tuning (E A E A C♯ E), the notes of the top string, the fret number and other basic notation and accompaniment information. |