This Helmut Hanika guitar us from about 1970.
It is equipped with a solid spruce top and rosewood
sides and back. The bridge is made out of rosewood
as is the fingerboard. Though there is no label sticked
in this instrument, the plantilla umistakebly is pointing
towards Hanika who also built guitars for dealers and
other companies as has been stated by Marion Hanika.
The rather mediocre quality of this rosewood
doesn't have any negative influence n the tone of this
instrument. The sides do fit the back of course and
the inner construction is of a high quality as is
often the case with Hanika instruments.
The nice rosette can be admired here and a typical german
bridge completes this instrument. After refinishing the top
the brilliance in tone was there again. I'm not sure wether
if Hanika treated his soundboards with a kind of oil but
it influenced the sound in a bad way: muffy, dull and
no brilliance at all which counts for all registers.
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