Aparicio Classical Guitar, AA1, Spruce

 

Product Description

Materials: SOLID CEDAR (shown in picture) or SOLID SPRUCE TOP, SAPELLI BACK AND SIDES, ROSEWOOD FINGERBOARD. Width at nut: 52 mm Scale length: 650 mm Finish: Lacquer

To help you with your choice of tops, classic guitars traditionally have cedar tops which are darker in color, whereas dreadnoughts (steel string guitars) typically have the lighter colored spruce tops. Spruce ages extremely well and gets better every year. If you have ever seen a professional player using an old beat up guitar, this is why. Spruce gets better sounding with age. Its not that they built them better back then, it's that they sound better the older they are. It is also very common for varieties of spruce to be used on a classic guitar that are very orange looking. These same varieties typically are never used on dreadnoughts.