Romantic Guitar after Johann Georg Stauffer.
The two piece perfectly and flawlessly book matched back of black walnut, (A kind gift from Jose Catoira ) Ribs from the same beautiful tree. The top of red cedar aged 30 years. This petite corpus model at 43cm has fanciful intarsia of traditional Viennese ornamentation. All details such as bracings, variations of plate thickness, and bridge reinforcements have been meticulously recreated to achieve a sweet, but penetrating tone. 
One draft of possible inlay into the walnut back
Modern performance of Viennese music is often plagued by the malady of using large, “modern classical” instruments. While it is no secret that the great traditions of Viennese lutherie blossomed into the larger corpus guitars we are familiar with today, there is a great advantage tonally to employing a smaller bodied instrument with shallow ribs, for a sweeter, more penetrating sound, especially with vocal accompaniment.
“Diabelli published the first compositions of Franz Schubert, when he was unknown as a musical composer, and these first publications were his songs with guitar accompaniment. Schubert was a guitarist, and wrote all his vocal works with guitar in the first instance. Some few years later, when the pianoforte became more in vogue, Schubert, at the request of his publisher, Diabelli, set pianoforte accompaniments to these same songs.” – Philip Bone
