This fine sounding, easy playing classical is made of solid East Indian rosewood
for the back, sides, headplate and bridge, Red Cedar for the face, ebony for the
2 1/16” wide neo-classical fingerboard, having a multi-ring, wooden mosaic
soundhole rosette measuring around 13/16th” in width, made of all
earth-tones with a repeating aircraft control tower as you might have seen at
Newark Airport in the 1960s. The neck has 12 frets to the body, of course,
and 18 frets beow that with a 19th partial fret at just the
6th string and the first string. The scale is 25 ¾” or around 654mm
if you are of a metric persuasion. The headstock, with its graceful tumescent
bump is decorated with a deco-esque flower with twin fronds genuflecting to each
side. The backstripe and end graft are each a simple maple line. Tuners are
gold-tone, three-on-a plate with very pretty large oval wooden buttons that show
marvelous grain and color.
About this company –
we have been advised that they have been in the USA for around 6
years. The manufacturer has, for around 85 years, operated from Sofia, the capital of Bulgaria, where
the workpersons are trained in the old German and Bulgarian traditions. And
yet, in seeing the instrument one is reminded of the Spanish methods of
classical construction. Nearly all models are made from solid, genuine, bona
fide woods. They are made under the banner of Orpheus Valley Guitars which
issues a warranty for a period of 3 years for the date of sale to the original
purchaser, with some exceptions listed that include accident, carelessness or
issues of insufficient humidification.