This guitar is worth $275,000

all right now I can get the price tag being careful drop this thing two hundred and seventy five thousand dollars well at least it comes with the case okay we've got an 1888 Antonio Torres yes Antonio Torres is the guy who basically codified the modern classical guitar we snagged it from the potential bad restoration we did a full restoration on it you know soup to nuts and probably one of the best Antonio tortoises in the world very cool so I should definitely not drop it shall we get started yeah so Brandon recently hit me up and say hey Brandon and so that there's some really really interesting guitars over here that are only gonna be here for a short amount of time so we got our equipment out and came out here where are we we're at the collective shops of art a brunet luthier and any brunei luthier we built guitars we fix them we restore them we saw historians they specialize in classical flamenco guitars but we also work on other instruments too so that we are not just limiting ourselves in that aspect basically servicing musicians yeah I began as a flamenco player and self-taught and I wanted a better instrument and I couldn't afford one so I took an old dining room table that my mom and dad had bought when they got married cut that up and I made my first guitar out of that eventually I realized I was gonna be making more money making and repairing instrument and playing them so I kind of moved down a notch in the food chain and just accepted my thing why Here I am we have some inventory here that most guitarists are probably in their lifetimes never be able to see you play as the classical guitars we learned about all these through legendary make in the past and I show up at this workshop let me go we got a Torres right there it is just totally mind-blowing shall we pick maybe like add a few of them what's the most expensive guitar $275,000 maybe we'll do that one last do that okay well pixel will warrant we'll work up to it what's interesting to me is why why does the how does the price get that high these things are so thinly traded they're so rare of this maker you made maybe in this lifetime approximately 300 guitars there's about a hundred surviving if you're generous of those hundred very few of them are in playing condition of the ones that are in playing condition very few are in the condition like this one is that yeah this is a bit of a letdown Blackey start with 275,000 right this is like oh this is only $30,000 this is a 1967 this is this concert model had the the fancy heads and basically we see Daniel free dresses in two types one of them is they are absolutely pristine untouched never played therefore they never really sound all that great because they're pristine untouched you've never played on the other side we see ones that are absolute wrecks because you know much like a car you get that first dent as a scrim you just play the other living daylights out of it this is one where it's not pristine but it's really really close to it here you go starting low-end 50,000 I didn't plan on what I was gonna play here and when you're playing at something that's fifty thousand dollars it's like you better play well let the guitar tell you what your first instinct actually when picking this up is um I started my channel playing classical guitar but it was not a $50,000 one it was when I got 450 dollars the first song I put out as a solo artist was called summer Anna I'm gonna play that but you hit the guitar in it so that's all like yeah can't play that one I feel strangely a lot more nervous than usual just knowing that it doesn't have dots at the top so that's different for me I'm just showing my ignorance here how many like professional love of classical guitars that you played this might be the first their level of residents sustained are so special especially whose older instruments [Music] I think yeah yeah I bet you cool yeah can you show yeah [Music] I do get blessed I can imagine that being a lot easier with yeah I'm really use a power eggbeater yeah having my um my wrists down on the guitar gives me a bit more accuracy but it does sound better here perfect art of all these guitars in the shop is just the idea that that because there's nothing else besides the acoustic instrument more the finesse lies in the fingertip yeah and so that's the whole beauty of it if I just go to the two of the triplets Venice a lot easier okay I got something going on here [Music] there's something here [Music] there's one more you can try that [Music] we call it artificial harmonics in classical guitar playing if you use the ring finger you free up the thumb and you can play melodies [Music] that is just absolutely French music on the front-running sound who's getting the direct feed of this mic we go so I will go with a 1908 Manuel ramírez this is the most deluxe model guitar that they offer in 1908 in 1908 by Manuel ramírez so it has all the extra purflings around here it's got the nice oh that's different you basically get the nicest guitar on the outside and then you get another one inside we've never seen another one like this yeah is the idea that just like a banjo you would that would help amplify it with the song we we don't know what do you have in this rent like this it's very interesting because you could present all kinds of hypotheses of what they were thinking one we really don't know but we know is they did it so my question is who who paid for this okay the make in those days the materials were so expensive they were like six seventh of the cost of the instrument one seventh was the labor it's the opposite today to devote this kind of investment to the materials the maker must have had a commission from a really good player where does it mean this was made in Madrid in Spain this is a concert level Israel with the finest most deluxe materials with expensive machine head's everything was done first Class E and F CDs machine yes yes I have the original mono over here it's a catalogue of 1912 or so and in the catalogue every guitarist priced with wooden pegs and if you wanted mechanical tuning depending on the level of it that's an expensive upgrade these were made with this mechanical tuning from day one art as they went through and checked every single option box and then they made up their own options on top of it the price tag to $80,000 it's a singularly unique instrument by arguably the most important maker in Spain at the 20th century the turn of the century [Music] yeah well just like I guess a banjo is a bit different but it does have it does have the sides and kind of the idea is that it vibrates the drum and then comes out the side and is super loud so maybe maybe the idea was to isolate the vibrations of the body from your body so they built the body around the body there were German makers who did that put resonators a second back screwed onto their instruments supposedly that was the idea it healthiest for away from your back [Music] it'll be hard to communicate on video but it's definitely a bit louder than [Music] very loud would you like to impress this with the first back of the guitar is also cut out yeah well yeah yeah oh I didn't mention that you got to glue your label on somewhere yeah it's interesting to that these would be this is a very expensive something like this would essentially have had to have been handmade by either a jeweler or a clock maker carving a gear is a very complex thing yeah and then paring a gear with a warm doubly complex [Music] so that's just a little cool of brushstroke let's go I've never seen anyone do that before you know just do that sometimes what is the price I got now so we're at that was fifty and we're at a hundred and thirty thousand sleep late enough guitars to buy like a house in the suburbs yeah yeah alright so what if I want to buy a house in this city though maybe I do I'm glad you're here to play some like real classical stuff I remember learning this one though is that kind of the smoke on the water of classical guitar yeah yeah somewhere between smoke on the water and stairway to heaven yeah and yeah that's ever popular and it's a great piece played well played poorly all right now no stairway yeah like him way of the road you know we were in Spain let's take a little trip over a little sidecar trip over to Germany all right this is a 1928 Hermann Hauser built by Hermann Hauser he started building Spanish guitars in 1994 in 1924 he made the guitars much more robust and that's what we're right here this is maybe not as loud of a guitar but the sound has inertia without much further ado yeah so we're looking at this and not to bring it back to the concept but when we with price tag on this guy a hundred and fifteen thousand dollars yeah yeah r05 courthouse in reality a German feature really yes a lot different than the last one this feels a lot more to what I'm used to in terms of the feel of the back you just doesn't feel the neck like I feel like this it feels a bit more modern but we're also dealing with a 640 scale here so you've taken ten millimeters out overall so we're closer to you know the low electric scale [Music] I don't remember it any I don't remember parts of it that is the theme song from Final Fantasy 10 [Laughter] [Music] what's the function of this euro so it sounds like the restroom right yeah that was always my that's you're very observant as the theory is that all the strings are vibrating from a fret yeah disconnected same internal consistency of South even off the open note shall we move on so what do we allow is 130 115 so we're at 2 foot we played two hundred and forty five thousand dollars with most expensive all right don't let's not drop anything when we get to Torres this instrument super special especially for for classical guitars in general just to play a real one is just such a treat this one belonged to a famous fella Massa he was a big fan of these maple guitars this is a very exotic bird's-eye maple what year was this this is 1888 1888 this was a very deluxe model his largest body that he made Antonio told us is the person who codified it the set of proportions that he established and it's very very proportional has been codified that's why all these guitars on this cabinet go about this because they're all and before this before this one we've got that French one yeah okay yeah here we go different set of proportions of the out of the bus the waist of the hips is a relation to the length and this is I mean this is extremely familiar yes and that's this is why it's familiar this is where it started it started with this maker yeah this is what a guitar was yes right was the end of the 20th century these guitars were still popular in these countries and Segovia was really the evangelists who took this model every place it Segovia when the player said oh I gotta get one of those this is my guitar we got to be playing this one like that we're getting rid of these now they're obsolete I know it can get to price tag being careful drop this thing two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars well at least it comes with a case yeah [Laughter] with the game how many of these exist there may be to fear that depending on how generous you are maybe ninety or a hundred yeah absolutely that's not as close as you're probably ever going to come to original in every detail yeah probably close to the the top five absolutely absolute yeah in sound so total we've played so far over a half a million dollars worth of classical guitars [Music] beautiful Oh one of the things that we found about these old instruments that have been played a lot especially been played by great players the instruments learn the music the better the players that have had it the more times it's been taught to play it I mean the touch is obviously a different age guitar but I'm always shocked by the resonance or the sweetness of this sound that I just that that sound is impossible in my guitar same gorgeous sound I can't play that song that's the first song I put out as a solo artist but it requires hitting it pretty hard so I'm just gonna play the beginning and that's as far as you go before you have to hit it [Music] yes that's great you've had an opportunity to play Howser right up against a Taurus and that Howser was built with German engineering and this was built with Spanish love and you can feel it in your hands you feel it in the weight you filled in the balance of your lap and the responsiveness it's pretty amazing to think about just the the history behind this instrument I want to like how many songs have been played on this can I put this in an open tuning or is that tuna string up gonna tune B to C yeah [Music] [Music] [Applause] knowing that how special this instrument is I'm just like going into strumming and just for getting my own songs to listen to what the guitar tells you yeah yeah just enjoy [Music] as long as I have that riff in the video somewhere that's cool I think maybe I'll end it with just a quick thing of summer for the end of the video and then it's kind of cool it's like that at least the first thing that was on this channel and the last thing is the same song I'll just do the only part of the song where I don't hit the guitar [Music] [Applause] [Music] I can I can I can remember some of my songs my human hustle genius elevator like this that sounds fantastic yes arts music this guy never would have conceptualized yeah I think that's the video guys thank you so so much for letting us to you thank you thank you Aarti brulee was here Emmie Brunelle ooze here this is not USA that's the cases that I trust flying with guitars like that well what a link in the description for that subscribe and share this isn't the last time you do something like this especially with Brandon we have a video you know similar rain coming soon so yeah thanks much for watching and we'll see you next week [Music]

Channel: Rob Scallon

Views: 3,782,545

Keywords: Rob Scallon, music, musician, guitar, guitarist, classical guitars, nylon string, rare guitars, expensive guitars, most expensive guitar, most expensive guitars, rarest guitars, instrument, violin, expensive instruments, quarter million, million, million dollars, quarter of a million dollars, torres, 1888 Torres, Torres Guitar, guitars, expensive verse cheap, cheap verses expensive, luthier, guitar builder

Id: fixMWe-O5u4

Length: 23min 25sec (1405 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 21 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/ProdRogue]

I thought you were joking. I didn't get the notification for the video for some reason, and I started watching it since I am a huge Rob Scallon fan. Then he actually played Never Meant

[u/McWhorter44]

That guitar sounds beautiful

[u/vblgsd]

OK one did they actually retune the $275K guitar just so he could play Never Meant?

And two, the artificial harmonic Eric Satie thing at about 6:50 is absolutely sick! (sorry for guitar geeking out).

[u/WuhanWTF]

Cool to see it playing crotchstyle like a classical guitar.

[u/gitdiff]

Imagine he comes in and starts playing smoke on the water with that guitar

[u/GGoodman09]

it happens around 21:50

[u/xcj-ded]

ok actually i watched the entire video and it is so fascinating. as someone who has been thinking about getting into classical guitar playing for a while i’m definitely inspired by the love of the instrument.

[u/Emandiputs]

Not only that but To Zanarkand too. lmao

[u/gordomgillespie]

luv rob