Description
Here’s a nice Larrivee Classical Long Scale Guitar with Spruce top, built during 1976 in Toronto, in one of the last locations before the growing company moved to Victoria B.C.
This Jean Larrivee classical guitar features a Sitka Spruce top paired with Indian Rosewood for the back, sides, head plate and bridge. The body blocks and neck are Honduran Mahogany. The long scale length (660mm, 25.9 inch) fingerboard is Ebony. The nut and saddle are bone. Schaller tuners are installed. The finish is a light Nitrocellulose lacquer that has aged nicely, and shows moderate play wear to the top back and neck.
The action is moderate with a low saddle. By this point, Larrivee had moved away from traditional 'Spanish' construction with the sides fitting into a slotted heel in favour of a standard Dovetail neck joint, making neck resets possible if required.
Overall, this guitar is in good condition for its 48 years. It plays well and the long scale with its increased tension helps with volume and projection.
A hard shell case is included.
Jean Larrivée began building at his home around 1967. At that time, if you were interested in building guitars you read the very few books on the subject or met an established builder. Larrivee wound up doing both, meeting German classical guitar builder Edgar Monch who was working in Toronto during this period.
Monch’s influence is clearly seen in Larrivee’s work including his current L-body designs. For several years Larrivée worked in the basement of his home, but in 1970 obtained shop space above the Tarragon Theatre. There, the long-gone Toronto Folklore Center encouraged him to build some steel string guitars. Staff started to appear, including William Laskin, David Wren, Linda Manzer, Sergei de Jonge and Tony Duggan-Smith. The rest is not just history – it’s also a lot of very good guitars.
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DETAILS:
- Instrument Model: Long Scale Classical
- Instrument Manufacturer: Larrivee
- Instrument year: 1976
- Instrument Finish: Natural
- Instrument Class: Vintage
- Instrument serial number: 532, signed and dated 1976 at Toronto Canada
- Country of Origin: Canada
- Instrument Condition: Good
- Right-handed
- CITIES Documentation Required: No
- Case included: Yes
- Case original: No
- Case Type: Hard
- Instrument Weight Imperial: 3.7 lbs
- Instrument Weight Metric: 1.7 kgs
- Scale Length Imperial: 25.984 in
- Scale Length Metric: 660 mm
- Nut Width Imperial: 2.140 in
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Nut Width Metric: 54..36 mm
- Items in Case: N/A
- Consignment: Yes
- Product ID: 189856
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