Montalvo
Classical Guitars
Call
(510) 548-7538
email:bmie@berkeleymusic.com
"Casa Montalvo" guitars are finely crafted beautiful sounding instrument
featuring solid Engelmann
Spruce
or Canadian Red Cedar tops, Mahogany or Spanish Cedar necks and
Rosewood or Ebony fingerboards.
CASA MONTALVO guitars are award winning highly affordable instruments produced
in Mexico for George Katechis Montalvo, a highly skilled master craftsman with experience in all
aspects of tone production. He has been repairing and selling musical instruments for 40 years.
He has studied silver and gold smithing, Renaissance and Baroque Woodwind construction .
piano soundboard technology, and the properties of strings under tension.
In 1990 he started the K&S guitar company, helping to design and produce
the guitars that company sold. Since 1999 he has been on his own, working
with many fine Mexican guitar makers, helping to design and produce Casa Montalvo
and Superior guitars .
He has established personal relationships with a number of Mexican makers, and is actively
involved in the production of the guitars made for him in Mexico . He brought higher quality woods, glues, finishes, and most importantly,
American builders and restorers to share their knowledge with the Mexican builders.
All "CASA MONTALVO" and "SUPERIOR" guitars are painstakingly set up and final-inspected by
George Montalvo at his shop in Berkeley, CA.
"Casa Montalvo" guitars are the finest in the world for the money. They are hand made, and
constructed of all solid woods that are air dried and aged before building. The nylon stringed guitars
all have a graphite reinforcing bar in the neck, and have a nitrocellulose lacquer finish. Many professionals
are using these instruments for performing as well as recording; John Scofield, and David Lindley
are the most notable. Many years have gone into the design and production of these guitars.
This has resulted in affordable hand made guitars that are unsurpassed in their quality and craftsmanship.
Roberto is eight years old. Click on his photo to get to a page of videos of him demonstrating some of our Montalvo guitars I first heard him plaing in the shop when he came in looking for a guitar. |
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HYBRID MODEL  |
Hybrid Model
Spuce Top Palo Escrito Back and sides Solid woods Ebony Wood Fingerboard 660 mm Scale 48mm at the nut A cross over guitar between Classical and Flamenco Thin body like a Flamenco, set up like a Classical #100061 Price: $885.00 w/cse email us bmie@berkeleymusic.com, Call (510) 548-7538 |
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Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case Serial #511204 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
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Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case |
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Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case Serial # 040630 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
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Barbero model cut-away classical guitar  |
Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case Serial # 040637 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
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Esteso model Classical Guitar |
Engelmann Spruce top
Price: $1,900.00 with hard case Serial # 050716 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
Esteso model
Classical
Guitar
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Engelmann
Spruce top
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Canadian Red Cedar Top
with hard case Serial #: 040604 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
Ignacio Fleta Model Classic Guitar with cut-away  |
Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case #120445 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
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Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case # 110725 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
Friedrich model cut-away classical guitar  |
Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case # 040640 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
| Concert Classic based on Hauser Sr. Model
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Engelmann Spruce top
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| Hauser XIRACOTE Model CLASSIC GUITAR  |
Engelmann Spruce top
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Hauser Model Classical Guitar  |
Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case #140207 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
Hauser model classical guitar
with french polish  |
Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case #160207 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
Hauser Cedar Top Model Classic  |
Canadian Red Cedar top.
Price:
$1,900.00 Serial #: 070422 Call
(510) 548-7538 |
Hauser Cedar Top Model Classic  |
Canadian Red Cedar top.
Price:
$1,900.00 Serial #:330207 or email us |
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Sam
Joens has purchased two of the
Howard Klepper Model Classical guitars and he sent usa little clip he
made; from the Fugues on the Magnificat by Johann Pachelbel and played
on the Spruce Top Klepper Model. (Click
to hear)
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Howard Klepper is a Master
Luthier building
unique instruments. I
liked his Classical guitar and Howard was kind enough
to give me a set of plans so we coluld make a few guitars based on his
original. This is a big guitar with asymmetrical bracing. It has a big
sound, a woody tone. and it is very responsive. We have a Cedar
and a
Spruce model. At
first the Cedar model has more presence. It takes more
time for the Spruce model to open up. Engelmann
Spruce top
This one is sold. We will have new photos soon. with hard case Serial #:110826 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
RAMIREZ Model Classic  |
Canadian red cedar top
with hard case Serial #:060515 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
Ramirez model classical guitar  |
Engelmann Spruce top
Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
RAYA PARDO Model Classic  |
Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case Serial #:060506 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
ROMANILLOS Model Classic  |
Engelmann
Spruce top
Price: $1,900.00 Call
(510) 548-7538
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RODRIGUEZ model Classical Guitar  |
This
is a deep bodied large guitar.
Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case Serial #:110823 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
Torres model Classical Guitar
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Engelmann Spruce top
with hard case Serial # 110828 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
Torres model Classical Guitar
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Canadian red cedar top
Price: $1,900.00 with hard case Serial #:1108924 Call (510) 548-7538 or email us |
Jorge
Katechis Montalvo
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St., Berkeley,
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