Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14
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Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14

Raffaele Dantone - 2025 - No. 14

Details

Luthier:  Raffaele Dantone
Construction Year: 2025
Top: Spruce
Back and Sides: Indian rosewood
Soundboard Finish: French polish
Body Finish: French polish
Air Body Frequency: G
Scale (mm): 650
Weight (g): 1475
Tuner: Alessi
Strings: Knobloch - EDC 34.0
Condition: New
Case: Hiscox Pro II “Siccas Edition”

Overview

The Raffaele Dantone No. 14 from 2025 illustrates the Italian luthier’s ongoing refinement of traditional concepts into a distinctive personal voice. Built with a spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides, it employs a newly developed five-fan bracing system of spruce and aged larch, supported by an under-bridge bar, to achieve both projection and tonal purity. Its air resonance around G provides depth and stability, while the slightly elevated ebony fingerboard ensures comfort in higher positions without departing from a classical aesthetic. The guitar responds with brilliance, fullness, and clarity, offering a wide dynamic range and excellent separation of voices. Immediate in attack yet with ample reserves, it adapts equally well to intimate and large settings, reflecting Dantone’s ability to blend Torres and Bouchet traditions with his own matured style.
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About the luthier:

Italian luthier Raffaele Dantone builds his instruments in Canazei, in the Dolomites, where he combines a strong respect for the Torres and Bouchet traditions with his own ongoing research. His guitars are characterized by carefully selected tonewoods, refined craftsmanship, and an approach that emphasizes clarity, projection, and expressive range. Each instrument reflects his continuous exploration of bracing concepts and soundboard architecture, aimed at balancing power with the warmth and beauty of a traditional voice.

About the guitar:

This 2025 concert guitar, numbered 14, marks a further step in Dantone’s evolution as a maker. It features a five-fan bracing system, a departure from the seven-fan layout he employed earlier, with the goal of achieving greater projection and tonal purity. Some of the braces are made of local spruce while others are of aged larch, complemented by an under-bridge sound bar. With its spruce top and Indian rosewood back and sides, the instrument has an air body resonance around G, offering a powerful yet elegant voice. The rosette design has been simplified to emphasize the natural beauty of the wood, and the slightly elevated fingerboard, with increased ebony thickness, allows both improved comfort in the higher positions and future adjustability while preserving a traditional appearance. The result is a guitar with a brilliant, full sound, remarkable clarity between voices, and a very wide dynamic range. It offers both immediate response and ample headroom, making it suitable for intimate playing as well as concert projection. This instrument demonstrates how Dantone’s work, inspired by Torres and Bouchet, has matured into a personal style of great distinction.

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