Rare woods

1954 Cedar of Lebanon

A documented cedar, given a new life in an individual instrument.

A date in the wood.

The 1954 Cedar of Lebanon is identified in the specifications of these instruments, with a certificate of authenticity where listed. It appears in classical, steel-string and extended-range guitars, each voiced as a complete instrument.

Summer from Four Seasons offers one way to hear this material: a cedar double-top with Imbuya Burl and a single offset soundhole. Windrose and Miles Davis explore other body shapes and individual visual ideas. The specification belongs to each guitar, rather than to every instrument in the collection.

Selected instruments

From the Museum.

Photographs and specifications of individual completed guitars. For current availability, visit Available.

Nylon / No. 710

Opus Virtuoso – Four Seasons – Summer

Opus Virtuoso

Double top: 1954 Cedar of Lebanon (with a certificate of authenticity)(top) / Western Red Cedar (bottom)
Back and sides: Imbuya Burl with sapwood

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Nylon / No. 744

Opus Virtuoso – Windrose

Opus Virtuoso

Double top: 1954 Cedar of Lebanon / Old-growth Redwood
Back and sides: Black California Walnut Burl

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Steel / No. 778

OM – Opus Virtuoso – Miles Davis

Opus Virtuoso

Double top: 1954 Cedar of Lebanon / Alpine Spruce from Tirol
Back and sides: Highly figured Black California Walnut Burl with Sapwood

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Steel / No. 703

Steel-string Acoustic GA guitar – Opus Virtuoso

Opus Virtuoso

Double top: 1954 Cedar of Lebanon (with a certificate of authenticity)(top) / Alpine Spruce from Tirol (bottom)
Back and sides: Amboyna Burl with sapwood