Enrique García 1913

Enrique Garcia was the son of a guitar maker, Juan Garcia, but he is said to have served an apprenticeship with Manuel Ramirez, and worked for him until 1895.  García is also famous for his one disciple, Francisco Simplicio, during his time in Barcelona.  I was able to examine this guitar at the Music Museum in that city.  The guitar is in very good shape and shows, not surprisingly, some similarities with Torres work.  Below are some of the measurements if you are interested.  I may never make a copy of García but Rolf sometimes used a plantilla and bracing taken from a García he had examined.  I don’t remember the bracing being assymetric like this one however.  Once again the technique of the low-watt bulb inside the guitar shows us very clearly that he thought that the treble side would benefit from more braces.