Our Great Guitar Collections

Concert Guitars

Classical Guitars

Cutaway Classical Guitars / Electro-Acoustic Guitars

Acoustic Guitars and
Jazz Guitars

The nylon strung guitar for the steel string guitarist. Given 4.5 star rating for both "playability" and "sound" by "Guitarist" magazine, March 2008

Choice of solid spruce and solid cedar soundboards. Choice of electronics. Gloss or matt finish.

Hand-built to order by Master luthier Armin Hanika. Optional AER electronics.

Choice of solid spruce and solid cedar soundboards. Mahogany back and sides. Choice of electronics

Alhambra's best-selling electro-acoustic cutaway classical. Choice of solid spruce and solid cedar soundboards

Cutaway version of Alhambra's acclaimed 7P classical. Typically has a solid spruce soundboard (cedar to order). Solid Rosewood back and sides. Choice of electronics.

Bolivian rosewood seems to have a mid-tone between maple and Indian rosewood and makes some of the most beautiful looking instruments there are. Fishman electronics fitted.

Solid spruce or solid cedar top and solid ovengkol back and sides. Choice of electronics. Narrow and curved fingerboard.

The maple tonewoods give this guitar a lovely crisp tone - playable right up to its 21st fret.

Solid spruce or solid cedar soundboard, narrow and radiused fingerboard, solid mahogany back and sides, choice of electronics.

Solid engelmann spruce soundboard, narrow and radiused fingerboard, Grand Auditorium body. Fishman electronics. Complete with Taylor case.

Solid cedar soundboard. Ovangkol back and sides. Fishman pickup, preamp, tuner.

Solid spruce soundboard. Laminated sycamore back and solid sycamore sides. Fishman pickup, preamp, tuner.

Just one of these extraordinary all-solid-wood classical electro-acoustics from the legendary Brazilian Giannini factory.

A great entry-level Flamenco style guitar from Alhambra - with the manufacturer's 3 year warranty.

Solid spruce soundboard, solid cypress back and sides, ebony fingerboard, flamenco pickguards, bridge binding and headstock veneer in rosewood, gold plated machine heads.

Flamed sycamore sides and back that provide a bright, crisp tone.

Ebony fingerboard with. Solid spruce top. Laminated back and sides. Model AA 200 e with Fishman Prefix ProBlend under saddle pickup condenser mic and preamp.

The Alhambra 7Fc is a wonderful flamenco guitar with a beautiful bookmatched solid cypress back and solid cypress sides. It is built with a solid german spruce soundboard and a spanish cedar neck with an ebony fingerboard.

A mid-priced Flamenco guitar from Alhambra featuring a solid german spruce soundboard with sides and back in either laminated sycamore (model 7F) - the traditional flamenco option, or in laminated indian rosewood (model 7Fp) - known as "flamenca negra."

The AA 90 is a resonant, lightweight Spanish flamenco guitar with a bright and robust tone.

The AA 90 is built with solid cypress sides and back, a solid spruce top and is finished with a special varnish developed by Aparicio.

New at Classical Guitars PLUS

More Steel string acoustic guitars

We were so pleased with the Alhambra classical guitars that we decided to include Alhambra's very Spanish sounding steel strung acoustics to our collection. These were so successful that our steel string range now includes

• Alhambra
• Blueridge
• Larrivée
• and handbuilt models from our neighbours Brooke Guitars.

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We also stock Maccaferri style jazz guitars from

• Manouche, and
• Gitane

Aparicio

Aparicio make a range of sweet-toned mid-priced guitars. One of our customers Jens Franke PG Dip BMus (GSMD) (visiting lecturer in guitar Reading University, guitar tutor St.Paul's Cathedral School) reviewed the AA 100 model for us -

"I liked this guitar. A very well finished student instrument and certainly capable enough to see a young player through to higher grade exams.
The guitar is well balanced, a good bass – not too over-powering as on some guitars in this price bracket – and a clear treble.
Recommended!"

This is only 1 of a number of equally well-built guitars in the range that in addition to classical models also includes a flamenco and an electro-acoustic flamenco model.

Historical Instruments

Father and son luthiers Armin and Mario Gropp of Germany made a range of very playable historical guitars and lutes. Their aim is to make instruments which are both true to the period but also playable by the contemporary amateur. These instruments sound wonderful and are genuinely easy to play by the non-specialist.

Instruments which we have taken into stock recently include

• Baroque guitar
• Baroque lute with theorbo style head
• French romantic guitar ("as an introduction to playing early 19th century music on a reliable modern copy I can recommend it" Jens Franke October 2008.