BARTOLEX 7-String Classical Harp Guitar

Solid Spruce Top, Ramirez Fan Bracing !!!

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NEW Bartolex

7-String Guitar

Up for consideration is a new Bartolex 7-String classical guitar, with silk-lined hardshell case. This guitar is the new Bartolex 7-string model, the SRS7, which has Ramirez fan bracing, and a solid Spruce top. This guitar is from the same Bartolex line that I personally play, and it sounds simply amazing. Click HERE for 1270 Hi-resolution photos of this very guitar. This is a top-quality 7-string classical guitar, and one of the few that you can get today without having to pay several thousands of dollars, and go on a lengthy waiting list!!!

“I am delighted with my new Bartolex MRS7Cel seven-string. It sings under the lightest of touches, the top end is crisp and clear and the bass end is magnificent. The best guitar I've had in 35 years of playing”
-- Will Beavan
Whitegate, Ireland

Bartolex is a guitar company founded by Argentinian luthier and guitarist Neris Gonzales, with production based in a high-quality Artisian Workshop in China. The result is a great guitar design with high-quality woods and workmanship, at a very affordable price (Click here for my Cathedral Guitar Interview with Neris). Click here for additional Bartolex reviews 1 | 2 | 3 | 4. The sound, both acoustically and recorded, is excellent. I personally am endorsing Bartolex multi-string guitars and am selling them on eBay and through Bartolex USA, because I have already played hundreds of gigs on my own Bartolex guitar, and I'm continually astounded at how good these guitars are. This guitar is the answer to my personal dream of having a quality multi-string guitar in standard production, at an affordable price -- and maybe it will be for you as well.

I have played and owned dozens of multi-string classical guitars, and this instrument rivals, equals or surpasses many luthier-built guitars in the 3k - 6k range. This guitar has a AAA-grade solid spruce top, laminated East Indian Rosewood back & Sides, ebony fretboard, and creates a beautifully-balanced Spanish sound with nice trebles, deep basses, with excellent resonance and sympathetic sustain. The low bass response is particularly good on this guitar. Many low 7=A strings sound weak and tubby, but the Bartolex design insures a prefect balance across all registers, and gives a very even response -- all the way down to low A.

STRINGS
I have the guitar tuned in a standard 7-string tuning where 1-6 is normal, and 7=A. Strings By Mail has a great selection of 7-string sets and can put together custom sets for you at a discount over individual strings. Several excellent string manufacturers offer 7-string sets, including D'Addario, Hannabach, and Savarez. LaBella also makes a 7-string set but I do not recommend it, because the basses are too weak. All Bartolex guitars come standard with Savarez strings.

GUITAR SPECS:
* Model: SRS7
* Serial # 00161013
* Top: Solid Spruce
* Ramirez Fan Bracing
* Saddle/Nut: Bone
* Fretboard: Ebony
* Finish: Lacquer
* Scale: 650 mm
* Nut Width: 56 mm
* 12th Fret width: 67 mm
* STRING SPACING
@ Nut = 50 mm o.c.
@ fret 12 = 59 mm o.c.
@ bridge = 68 mm o.c.
* NECK DEPTH
@ fret 1: 19mm
@ fret 7: 20mm
* ACTION
@ String 1 = 3 mm
@ String 7 =4 mm
* Neck Dots @ 7th fret
* Hardshell case
* Silk-Lined
* w/Hydrometer
* Made in China
* 1 Year Warranty

SOUNDFILES
Here are 12 quick, 1-take MP3s of this guitar, tracked using a pair of Sony PCM D1 field recorder, using the built-in microphones. This is straight, pure signal with no additional EQ or effects. This guitar is very easy to record, and would make an excellent classical 7-string guitar for a classical CD, or for recording nylon-string guitar tracks in any musical style:

1 | Resonance Test
(Showing Sympathetic Resonance)

2 | Intonation Test (Harmonic @
12th fret, followed by fretted note)

3 | Pavan #3 (Luis Milan, 1500-1561 Spanish Renaissance)

4 | Packington's Pound (English Renaissance)

5 | The Third Tune (Thomas Tallis,
1505-1586, with improvisations)

6 | Pavan #1 (Luis Milan,
Spanish Renaissance)

7 | Improv

8 | Corn Yards (Renaissance)

9 | Renaissance Dance
(original)

10 | Bass Thing
(fretted 7th string)

12 | Harmonics Thing (improv)

13 | Brian Boru's March (Traditional Celtic)

In short, this guitar is a great concert and/or recording guitar for any intermediate to advanced-level player, and it would make a great guitar for classical concerts, recitals, local gigs, as well as recording studio projects. It is also the ideal guitar for first getting into the world of Multi-String guitars, as it is a relatively affordable, easy-to-play, and a great-sounding instrument.

RESOURCES
My website Cathedral Guitar has a lot of info on multi-string guitars; I run an internet radio station on multi-string guitars and lutes, called 10-String Radio; I moderate a 300-member 10-String Yahoo Group on the multi-string subject, and am working on an instructional website, 10-string.com. Perf De Castro has a YouTube Multi-String Guitar channel on the instrument. James R. Smith has an excellent intoductory article to the world of multi-strings, here.

TEACHERS
If you need a teacher to help you adapt to the 7-string guitar, you can check this list here. Also, if you will be playing mostly lute music on the 7-string, I strongly recommend taking lessons from a lute player, if you can find one. If you want online lessons, I highly recommend the 10-String (tuned like an 8-string 7=D, 8=A) guitarist Perf De Castro, who is both an excellent musician and a wonderful teacher, and he offers private lessons via the internet. Click Here for more details.

CLASSICAL HARP GUITAR
This guitar type is a relative of the Harp Guitar family also known as the Fretted Harp Guitar. It has one big advantage over the other harp guitar types in that the frets extend across the entire neck, and can be played with a capo -- and be quickly transposed into a variety of different keys, which is especially helpful when accompanying singers. This is, of course, impossible on a regular harp guitar with floating strings. Custom capos are made by Shubb (ask for the Pinnochio model), and also by Phill Elliott.

SHIPPING & TERMS
Insured USA and International FedEx Ground is FREE, and USA Fed-Ex 2nd Day Air is only $25. I do accept Credit Cards, PayPal, and all the other forms of payment. Thanks for looking. Please ask questions before bidding. Satisfaction Guaranteed!!! This auction is for one Bartolex SRS7 7-string classical harp guitar and hardshell case. No other accessories are included.

SATISFACTION GUARANTEED
If you are not happy with the guitar for any reason, simply return it within 3 days for a full refund (buyer pays shipping). So far, after dozens of eBay and direct internet sales of multi-string guitars, not a single customer has returned a guitar.

PLEASE CHECK OUT my other multi-strings by Ramirez, and Cathedral Guitars in my Current eBay Auctions, and also see and hear dozens of my multi-string guitars that have Recently Sold on eBay.

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