Back/sides
Scale
Tuners
Finishing
Condition
Playability
Origin
Current status
: Brazilian rosewood
: 650mm
: Rodgers (with black wood kidney-shaped button)
: French polish
: excellent
: tough
: England
: SOLD
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I bought this guitar in 2001 from a professional player in England,
Michael Hulmes. According to Mike, he once made 2 recordings with this guitar.
This is a real concert guitar! The power is great. The basses are very deep, but a little bit boomy. The trebles are thick and deep, but clear and had some kind of elegant rings on them. I would say that the guitar sound is piano-like sound in overall. By no means, it's not a Spanish sound, instead it's a European sound! I was surprised to notice the good craftmanship of the guitar, and it gave me a feeling it was something more than guitar everytime I explored the beauty of it. Later I found out that Mr.Fischer used to be a harpsichord maker. The selection of the materials are not to be questioned ! I got many sincere compliments from guitar experts/guitar makers everytime I showed it to them, especially because of its Brazilian Rosewood good quality. To be honest, it's not a guitar for students or amateur players like me. The left-hand playability is a bit tough. But what finally made me sell it was the right-hand playability. The string-tensions were too high, even after I had Mr.Tsutsumi, a Japanese luthier, lower the saddle. This "Virtuoso" model seems to be the last traditional-based model of Paul Fischer, before he swifted to his modern "TAUT" model, which he applies it to his current model, "Conservatoire". To know more about Paul Fischer, please click here. Despite our faith to be separated each other, I feel so proud to have possesed a guitar, which are/were used by other great guitarists such as Nicola Hall, Assad Brothers, John Mills, Eduardo Fernandez, Paulo Bellinati, Jason Vieaux, to name a few. |