Description: This guitar Kodama Kano (Kanoh) number 20 is in excellent overall condition and features the full-size 650 mm scale, a solid spruce sound board with light bearclaw, and solid rosewood back/sides. It is constructed with an ebony fretboard, 7-fan bracing, and a 52mm nut. Action is 4mm/3mm at 12th fret. Kodama Kanoh (Kano) Born in 1939. He studied under his father and started making guitars since he was 19years old. He established his own workshop in 1969. His interest and spirit of inquiry makes him explore various type of guitars such like 19th century romantic guitar, viuhela and baroque lute. He says the most important thing for the guitar is its clarity. During his professional career the well-loved German classical guitarist Siegfried Behrend played and recorded with a Kodama Kanoh guitar. (He also owned a Weissgerber and a Yamaha GC-30B). Kodama Kanoh guitars have a distinctive beautiful sound. The sound of the Kanoh guitar that Siegfried Behrend used to record some of his LPs is just that: seductive and beautiful. In Japan outrageously expensive and extravagant price for a fine handmade guitar is quite rare. Even Yuichi Imai guitars which many college professors of the classical guitar and professional classical guitarists are using at the present have a retail price of only $10,000 in Japan. The highest Sakurai Kohno model is also about $10,000. Yet a new Kodama Kanoh guitar retails for 1,800,000 JPY – which is about 18,000 USD. The price of Kanoh guitars can be verified: Please search for "JSIMA Stringed Instrument Fair 2012" in Google. Then click on the link for "Publications"; the information for Kodama Kanoh is on page 10 or 11 of this Japanese publication which lists the names and information of all the luthiers who participate in the annual stringed instrument fair in 2012. Some screen shots are included in my pictures just for information. You can also search for Kodama Kanoh in YouTube. There are a few sound samples in youtube that were recorded with Kanoh guitars. Specifically, please listen to the two music clips that were posted on youtube perhaps by the owner of the classical store at which the two Kanoh guitars were displayed (One is a 2012 Brazilian model and the other is a 2004 Indian rosewood model).
Price: 3000 USD
Location: Derwood, Maryland
End Time: 2024-12-29T16:04:59.000Z
Shipping Cost: 45 USD
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All returns accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Brand: Kodama Kano
Handedness: Right-Handed
Type: Classical Guitar
Body Type: Standard
Performance Level: Professional
Size: 4/4
Fretboard Material: Ebony
String Configuration: 6 String
Model: Number 20
MPN: Number 20
Country/Region of Manufacture: Japan
