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Zorro02 -> RE: A challenge!! (Apr. 2 2007 22:20:25)
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Here is the description, can the price/valuation possibly be true? Please tell me because I can not see how a guitar can be worth so much
"The model is Tàrrega 1978 An
Many of the most famous brasilian artists such as Tom Jobim, Joao Gilberto, used this guitar to the achieve the sound of the likes of :
“The Girl for Ipanema”
“Corcovado” known as “Quite Nights of Quite Stars”
“Insensatez” known as “How insensitive!”
and many more Bossa Nova hits
This model is named Tàrrega. Such name, due to a Reinaldo Di Giorgio's initiative, who decided to dedicate an instrument to a famous spanish guitar player called Francisco Tàrrega. The guitar was built was born 1978 and completed by 1985 and is called the 1878 anniversary Model and I bought it on march 1st 2006. The Tàrrega guitar, has a curious peculiarity: it has an oval hole. This particular shape confers a particular sound to the instrument, also due to the presence of a narrow wood-band, called risounder, that surrounds, from the inside, the oval hole. Such hole is made precious by a national mosaic. The resonance chamber and the bridge are made of Jacarandà da Bahia, while the harmonic board is made of Red Cedar. The keybord is in Ebony da India and the neck is in Cedar. The head has the usual hand-made wood carving. The machine head, in golden steel, has exagonal ambered keys. The instrument measures: height cm 99; max width cm 36,5; resonance chamber depth cm 10,5. Weight kg. 1,900.
The emotion that you can feel when you play a "Di Giorgio" Tàrrega. models form 70's and 80's is uncomparable, since you are allowed to taste, much more deeply and intimately, the warmth and the sweetness of that extraordinary music which is Bossanova. Now let's see, a little bit better, the principal models of the production
"Di Giorgio" classical guitars boast a tradition which is almost one hundred years old. They represent not only one of the main artistic expression in the field of guitar luthery, but also the essence of the brasilian music itself, bossanova in particular. Many of the most famous brasilian artists such as Tom Jobim, Joao Gilberto, Roberto Carlos, Marcos Valle, Dorival Caymmi and many more, helped to write Di Giorgio's history.
The factory "Violões Finos Romeu Di Giorgio" was established in 1908 by Romeu Di Giorgio, born in Rome - Italy, in 1889. He was a pupil of a lutemaker who built violins, and here he started to learn the secrets and the techniques of this fine art. Step by step, the factory "Di Giorgio", initially small-sized, turned into an effective industry specialized in acoustic instruments (guitars, violins, violas..) often used by european immigrants who arrived in Brasil in the first decades of the XXth century.
During the 40's, under the name "Indústria e Comércio de Instrumentos de Cordas Di Giorgio Ltda", the factory moves to São Paulo and in this period it develops, in particular, the production of violões (acoustic classical guitars). Such instruments, become very soon popular and start to sign the typical brasilian musical tradition. During the 60's, as soon as Bossanova was born and under the direction of the Founder's son, mr. Reinaldo Di Giorgio, "Di Giorgio" brand devotes itself as the main high-class guitar (violões) supplier for musicians and composers rising in that musical context.
Actually established in Franco da Rocha, in the state of São Paulo, with a huge productive surface and a large number of employers, the factory "Violões Di Giorgio", under the direction of mr. Reinaldo Di Giorgio Junior, still produces different models of violões and it confirms itself as one of the best world manufacturer in the field of an inimitable high-class luthery.
Owning a "Di Giorgio" guitar, does not mean to have one of the best "violões" only, it also means to enjoy the chance of holding in your hands and playing an instrument that made the history of Bossanova and that is actually the soul itself of the brasilian musical tradition."
Well What do you Think??
Is it worth the estimate of.........
$449.000.00, yes nearly half million big ones!
Can this be true?
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