Roosebeck Vihuela 6-course - Maple/Mahogany

The body is made with alternating staves of maple & mahogany on sides & back in a matte finish. The soundboard is spruce. The neck is maple with an ebony fingerboard. The frets on the neck are nylon, there are three sheesam frets on the spruce soundboard. The tuning pegs are mahogany. It has six courses, five of which are two strings each, with the first course being a single string (courses 1-4 nylgut and courses 5-6 nylgut & phosphor bronze wound). The bridge has a mahogany base with an ebony top; the ornate mahogany mustache stands out against the light spruce soundboard. It has one sound hole in the center of the soundboard, which is exceptionally ornate, a 4-layer deep parchment style rosette.

Suggested tuning (low to high) is G, C, F, A, D, G (range G2-G4). Includes a well-padded gig bag with double ended zipper opening on three sides for full open lid. There is a pocket, a padded hand grip and shoulder strap. The overall outside of gig bag is 39"L X 5”H X 18” W.

Important specification: Body/Bowl: sixteen inches in length, three inches in height and 12 1/4 inches in width

Neck at Nut: two inches in width

Neck at Body Joint: 2 5/8 inches width

Nut: two inches in width

Strings at Nut: 1 3/4 inches width

Strings at the Bridge: three inches width

Scale length: 23 1/4 inches