Today's flea market find & acquisition was this lovely old Spanish guitar. It was hiding amongst 3 other guitars but although this was quite dusty with a few speckles of paint it seems to have had no other serious structural issues like cracks or warps.
Having cleaned the guitar with some pine disinfectant, lemon oil for the rosewood finger board, basic wood polish for the finish and a new set of Martin folk strings (nylons) the guitar sprang back to life! A good balance across the tonal spectrum for what I can only assume was a student model guitar most likely built in the 1970's under the Admira brand and built in Spain.
Construction appears to be laminate top/back/sides with a rosewood fingerboard. The intonation and tuning very acceptable. I could not find any dead spots and the guitar frets smoothly finished. Cosmetics about what I've come to expect from a budget range student guitar. It would be difficult to appraise the value of this guitar except I don't think I was robbed, I bought it for £10 :-)
I imagine a similar quality Admira guitar today would be around £100. This one plays surprisingly well across the board. I do play classical style mainly so enjoyed picking out tunes on this one. Photos for reference are the actual guitar I purchased. Information on this blog posted purely because i searched Google and could find scant information on this particular model.
Do you own this model or a very similar Ritmo, please feel free to add a comment!
