Product: Cuenca 90
Price Paid: 1060 (EUR)
Submitted
01/22/2006
at
03:13am
by
Zoran
Features
:
10
Made in Spain, 2005, classical guitar, top student model, cedar top, indian rosewood back and sides, cedar neck with ebony reinforcement, ebony fingerboard.
Sound
:
10
I have this guitar of a month now, I've been playing it constantly and already the sound seems to be improving, especially tone and chord sustain and somehow tonal quality too. Overall, nice ballanced basses over mids and trebles, it has dark mellow cedar sound with rich basses and clear loud trebles. It is one of the loudest guitar I ever played.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
9
Classical set up, relative high action (4 mm on bass side, 3,6 mm on the treble side), the original strings were DAdarrio Medium tension than I changed to medium hard tension. Seems like slightly out of tune when playing on the high register I guess thats due to the high action.
Reliability/Durability
:
9
Slightly outbowed top behind the bridge and inbowed or concave area in front of the bridge but thats what I saw on the other guitars I played. I saw this deformation on top student classical guitars more than on beginners models or for example on rigid constructed steel string guitar. Seems like a luthier's intentional deformation, caused by the sum of six string force over the bridge to the top plate.
Customer Support
:
8
The dealer of Cuenca I was doing business with was very nice and the guitar has only 1 year warranty and it doesn't seems like I'll be needing any support yet.
Overall Rating
:
10
I have been playing low priced guitars for 7 years, I own low to middle class models in a price range up to 400 EUR, like Hohner's dreadnought HW 640, Ibanes AW40 with pickup. This is my first all-solid classical guitar and my first attempt to learn classical music too.
I decided to buy a classical guitar Cuenca 90 soon after playing a few songs in the store and didn't check on other guitars, one day I want to own a spruce top/rosewood back and sides classical guitar because seems perhaps more focused, clear and its more tonal stabile and responsive when playin hard, especially on the high register.
I've visited other stores in my area and yet I haven't found better classical guitar, I tried other cedra models for example Esteve Mod. 11, Antonio Apparicio mod. AA55 and also been introduced with beginner luthier in my area and tried his handmade classical guitar but my Cuenca 90 seems better than any of the above.
