The young Francisco Tarrega acquired his first Torres guitar in 1859, he was 17 years old. According to Emilo Pujol, Torres made this guitar for his own personal use. The story goes, Torres was so impressed with the young Tarrega’s playing, he gave him his own personal guitar. Tarrega played this guitar until 1889 (20 years) until constant use and wear forced forced him to replace it with another instrument.

Miguel Llobet compared his own 1859 Torres with the 1864 and said, “both were superior instruments and very similar to each other, but for me yours (1864) is the best”.

“It was made of maple with the soundboard in spruce, the neck and head in cedar, and the fingerboard of ebony. The size was slightly smaller than the usual one. It’s sound hole and contours were bordered with the finest of inlays of a pale green shade with double herringbone purfling; on the head, the back and the ribs was an exquisite rectangular meander inlay. In additional to the spontaneity of sound, due perhaps to it’s tornavoz, there was a clear warm timbre, as if it were of gold. The balance between the bass and treble was proportionally exact in volume and the duration of it’s vibrations equally generous throughout the fingerboard. It sufficed to finger a perfect chord in order that, by plucking only the three bass notes one could clearly preceive the harmonics of the other strings” — Emilio Pijol, from Antonio de Torres His life and Work, by Jose Romanillos.

This guitar features a 640 scale.

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