Flamenco Guitar

According to an internal label, this guitar was built for Pablo Concepcion in 1846. Concepcion may have been a dealer selling the instrument under his own name. The beautifully figured rosewood ribs (possibly of the ziricote or bocote species) suggest readily available rosewood. Though a Spanish-style guitar, this material choice may suggest a South American origin.

Technical description: Six-string guitar (originally ten-string, six-course instrument with single strings for first two courses); two-piece pine soundboard with rosewood / white veneer / rosewood binding; soundhole diameter of 74.13 mm with two rings of binding consisting of stained black and thin white veneer layers in a b/w/b/w/b/w/b pattern; rosewood tie bridge; inlaid black oval decoration below bridge with initals "M M" and horn a foliage motifs; mahogany back with rosewood / white veneer / rosewood binding; neck and headstock of pine with rosewood veneer; highly-figured rosewood (ziricote / bocote) ribs; rosewood fingerboard with seventeen brass frets (twelve on neck, five on soundboard); six ebonized friction tuners (Daniel Wheeldon 2016)