Re: Federico Garcia's- are they worth anything?

: : : i am currently playing a 20 year old garcia and have just replaced most of the old strings. it does sound pretty good. its appearence is pretty good, except for a small chio near the bottom. i have no interest in selling it, but i am curious how much it is worthe

: : There's a lot of garbage out there about these guitars. New they cost about $230. (The garbage is that they're worth over two grand.) Both Garcia and Hernandis are made by the same company in Japan. Both are excellent guitars. Ebay average price for Hernandes & Garcia grades one seems to be around $300 + -. Grade threes seems to be slightly less, but not much. I have a Hernandes grade one steel string I bought new. It's a great guitar, but a little light in the bass.

: CLARIFICATION:
: I just happened to see the above hatred followups which tries to garbage some very nice sounding guitars, i.e., Garcia and Hernandis. I have many guitars in my collection including Ramirez, Kohno, Rodrigues, Martin and Hernandis. The Hernandis guitars are really decent ones with top notch sound qualities. I have catalogue from 1981 in which the prices of Hernandis Guitar are listed as:

: Grand Concert Guitar $1245
: Concert Guitar No.1A $1045
: Concert Guitar No.1 $750
: Concert Guitar No.2 $600

: Clearly these price are much higher than $300!!!!! in 1981. In fact the price of Hernandis Grand concert has been competative with Ramirez 1A guitars. The Hernandis guitars have been made in Japan by a maker that worked in the Ramirez shop for years.

: The importer of the Hernandis guitars, Sherry-Brener Ltd. of chicago, has the current price listing as:

: Grand Concert Guitar $6500 (They are sold out)
: Concert Guitar No.1A $6000
: Concert Guitar No.1 $5500
: Concert Guitar No.2 $4975

: The website address is: http://www.guitarsofspain.com/hernandis1a/hernandis_grade1a.asp

i have a garcia #1 made in madrid in 1969.according to a friend of mine who is a musician;music teacher/and guitar repairer and rebuilder this was one of the last bunches of the instruments hand made in spain.they are made in japan now.the label on the inside of the guitar states this to be the case.i am looking to sell it,it is in good shape and still sounds good.i have not played it much for several years.it uses classical strings if anyone is interesed contact me at janetdxbell@insightbb.com

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