Zavaleta’s La Casa de Guitarras

We offer fine handmade classical guitars and flamenco guitars, and carry an carefully selected inventory of both new and used instruments. We represent more than forty of Spanish guitar makers.

You will find that our site is a labor of love with hundreds of pages of biographical sketches of makers, photos of guitars and luthiers, and sound samples of guitars from 1761 to the present.

14 thoughts on “Zavaleta’s La Casa de Guitarras”

  1. Manuel Reyes Flamenco blanca 85
    Geert Doumen

    This blanca sounds so sweet, beautiful and lyrical, melodically, it sings like a human voice, when played hard it awakens with a intensive bite. As sweet as the tone is, rasguedos still explode as fired by a machine gun. Our artisanos Martín y José reapplied new French Polish making its condition excellent with no damage or repairs. This guitar is a true masterpiece, in absolute mint condition, very easy to play, amazing volume, strong flamenco basses and percussive trebles and could easily please the most discriminating player or collector.

    If you want to know how Manuel Reyes his guitars feel and sound we invite you to watch, listen and enjoy the high definition video of our La Sonanta song played together with palmas and cajon on our website http://www.lasonanta.eu.

    Manuel Reyes Maldonado of Cordoba was born in Jayena, Granada, on July 18th 1934. He began making guitars in 1949 and had some verbal guidance from Joaquin Sánchez Galisteo of Cordoba and from Marcelo Barbero of Madrid. Manuel Reyes is considered to be the greatest and most sought-after contemporary flamenco builders in the world. He is known for his excellent workmanship and authentic Andalusian flamenco sound. His guitars have been played by dozens of flamenco professionals all over the world, perhaps the most notably being Vicente Amigo. His waitlist for new instruments is now closed due to its enormous size.

    1. Re: Masaki Sakurai Classical Guitar For Sale
      W H Choy

      : 1991 Model ‘Excellent’ classical guitar by Masaki Sakurai from the Khono Workshop in Tokyo. Excellent tone, playability and volume. Spruce top, rosewood back and sides with lacquer finish. 65mm scale and 52mm at the nut. Double-ebony reinforced neck make this a very stable instrument. Good condition. Original case. I purchased this guitar new and still have the original receipt. £800 plus cost of postage or it can be collected – I live on Anglesey in the UK!

      Is your guitar still available? Which modle is it?

    2. Re: This popular thread has been given its own page :... Chris Langley
      Chris Langley

      1991 Model ‘Excellent’ classical guitar by Masaki Sakurai from the Khono Workshop in Tokyo. Excellent tone, playability and volume. Spruce top, rosewood back and sides with lacquer finish. 65mm scale and 52mm at the nut. Double-ebony reinforced neck make this a very stable instrument. Good condition. Original case. I purchased this guitar new and still have the original receipt. £800 plus cost of postage or it can be collected – I live on Anglesey in the UK!

      1. Masaaki
        Anonymous

        I just got a used Masaaki Acustic guitar.
        It was very dusty and misscared.
        I cleaned it real good and firnished with furnitures polish and turned out to have a beautiful looking.
        Now I need to buy the set of cords but I dont now what kind of cord should I buy.

  2. looking for info
    lynn pereira

    I am looking for info on a tauras classical made in 1970 at the Casa Mariani by J. Antonio Figueras (Gerona). It has the Tauras Label made in Barcelona. Any info would be appreciated. Lynn

  3. I bought a guitar in Turkey
    Rick Hall

    Sir,
    I am an American in the U.S> Air Force stationed in Turkey and decided to teach myself to play guitar. In coming to this decision I needed a guitar and since the prices in Turkey for everything is so cheap I decided to buy one on the local economy. In doing so I decided on a Jumbo acoustic made by Sonora (it said made in Spain) with the identifier of MG 01911 on the label. I can not find anything about this brand of guitar anywhere on the web. Can you give me any idea of the quality and price of this brand of guitar. I spent $150.00 on it and was told that the price was originally $250 – $280. (It is well known that you can haggle a better price in Turkey) It is also well known that you can get ripped off here as well. Did I or not? That is my question to you.

    Thanks for any reply.

    Rick

      1. Re: This popular thread has been given its own page :... Geoff Courtney
        Geoff Courtney

        Rick,
        Go to http://www.harmonyCentral.com and search through there guitar manufacturer datadase, they have just about every guitar maker in the world listed. They also have reviews posted about most of the guitars.
        : Sir,
        : I am an American in the U.S> Air Force stationed in Turkey and decided to teach myself to play guitar. In coming to this decision I needed a guitar and since the prices in Turkey for everything is so cheap I decided to buy one on the local economy. In doing so I decided on a Jumbo acoustic made by Sonora (it said made in Spain) with the identifier of MG 01911 on the label. I can not find anything about this brand of guitar anywhere on the web. Can you give me any idea of the quality and price of this brand of guitar. I spent $150.00 on it and was told that the price was originally $250 – $280. (It is well known that you can haggle a better price in Turkey) It is also well known that you can get ripped off here as well. Did I or not? That is my question to you.

        : Thanks for any reply.

        : Rick

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