1897 ENRIQUE GARCIA (1868-1922) SIGNED

652 mm Scale, 50 mm Nut. Medium grain Domed Spruce Soundboard and Maple Back and Sides. French Polish, Original Frets, Original C. Eon Pearl Tuners (made in Paris), as used on many of the Antonio de Torres and Eladio Molina guitars. It has separate kerfing pieces attaching the top to the sides, and a single liner attaching the back to the sides. 9 fan braces. This weighs only 1,165 grams = 41.61 ozs = 2 lbs. 9.6 ozs. 

The distance from Francisco Tarrega’s home to Enrique Garcia’s workshop was 2.2 km = 1.37 of a mile, just over a mile. See the map below. 

This guitar is a published instrument. In 2010, three photos of the guitar appeared in the book published by Diego Milanese and Umberto Piazza: Francisco Simplicio, Luthier, on pages 21 and 64, both pages of photos are shown here. 

My name appears in the above mentioned book on page 133, because of relating the story that Jose Rey de la Torre was brought to the Simplicio shop by Miguel Llobet, to get a guitar, whereupon entering they both learned that Francisco had passed away 3 weeks previously, and that Miguel was installing the frets, Bridge and Gears with Strings on the last guitar Francisco ever built. I related this story to Diego Milanese over 20 years ago, and the story was included in an Italian Classical Guitar magazine published at that time. 

There are repaired cracks, 3 on the back, 8 on the top, these were restored by Michael Gurian in 1971 and Jacques Vincenti in 2007.