b'Rio Rosewood ArielThe back and sides of this guitarin between spruce and cedar. It isThe fingerboard is Ebony with pearl are highest quality Brazilian, witha huge tree that yields incrediblediamonds and my signature inlaid. grain patterns that at one time werequantities of wood, very fine closeLightly built and surprisingly loud, popular in the best Classical guitarsgrain and gorgeous colours, andthe internal structure has been - look on Segovias record sleeves.there are signs of it being availablemanipulated carefully to avoid that Deeply coloured with enough interestmore often. It is rather brittle andloudness becoming brash. Everyone in the grain to give it character. needs to be used carefully. I thinkis impressed with the sound, it isnt Thirty years ago, Seqouia(notit matches the back and sidesjust volume, it is clear and balanced, Segovia!) perfectly. The bindings are tulipwood,ideal for the player who needs a widewas a novelty woodpicking out the red and brown of therange of available tones and has the that was difficult to obtain mostlybody timbers. skills to produce them.because of strange conservation measures. It is still rare in this trade,The neck is two layers of mahogany, but it has gained a reputation forwith a centre section of English its bright strong tone, somewhereWalnut and two strong Ebony lines. 315'