This Montes 147 has a short scale of 650 mm making her particularly suitable for guitarists with smaller hands. She has a lot to offer aesthetically having an excellent quality of workmanship. The sides and backs are made of georgeous Cocobolo projecting a nice bright tone and deep tonalities on the low end while maintaining a fast and responsive, distinctive note decay. Juan also put some more elaborate details in this new negra, the purflings and the light rosewood back split, make this new negra also very beautiful to the eye. Affordable great flamenco guitars are more and more difficult to find in Spain, so we are very happy that Juan Montes enables us to offer you such a fine flamenco instrument. A real opportunity at an admirable price. With this well priced 147, Juan enables more flamenco guitar students to own a really excellent 100% Spanish made flamenco guitar to attend workshops, classes and study.
Since Juan Montes started working together with the acclaimed flamenco guitarist and pedagogue David Leiva, the Juan Montes flamenco guitars have become really excellent instruments with a tremendous percussive flamenco attack and excellent flamenco playability. Juan always has been striving to make guitars with a very high price versus quality ratio. Juan Montes was born in Huelva. In the 50's Juan started learning the art of traditional handmade guitar construction from well known guitarreros of Madrid and Granada. In 1972 Juan Montes moved to Valencia where he opened his own workshop. Although based in Valencia Juan Montes, still today, commits himself to the traditional Spanish way of artisan guitar construction.
