Kenny Hill Player Classical Guitar – Cedar 640mm with PORTS

Kenny Hill Player Classical Guitar – Cedar 640mm with PORTS

The Kenny Hill Player Classical Guitar Series are new models that have been in development for some time. At a more accessible price, these guitar feature selected Indian rosewood, cedar, spruce and cypress: all solid woods, and a thinly applied lacquer finish.

The Player Series Classical Guitar offers the player a wide variety of choices: each model is available with an Engelmann Spruce or Western Red Cedar soundboard, 650mm or shorter 640mm string lengths and lower. Incredibly, the Spruce tops have silk rays or medullar rays throughout, highly prized and they really do sound terrific. The Cedar tops have beautiful straight grain, with a lush ruddy look to them, sounding warm and wet, most evidencing the same Medullar Rays. The Indian Rosewood backs and sides are also superior. You might expect to see these types of woods selected for guitars well over $3000 or more in price.

Please note that this version of the Hill Player Series has 2 Sound Ports exactly as you would see in Kenny’s Performance or Signature Series…$200 upcharge for this feature, reflected in the sale price when you add to cart.  Thanks.

Kenny Hill Player Classical Guitar – Cedar 640mm with PORTS

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Measurements

Kenny Hill Player Classical Guitar – Cedar 640mm with PORTS

Specs

Once you’ve tried these classical guitars, I am confident you will agree that once again, Kenny Hill has delivered a remarkable line of finely-crafted instruments; they look great, are a joy to play and sound terrific.

• Solid Wood Soundboard available in Western Red Cedar or Engelmann Spruce (beautiful selections by Kenny)
• This listing is for the Hill Player Cedar 640 with Ports ONLY
• Scale Lengths: Available in 650mm – 640mm – 628mm all with Ports  –  standard models available as well.
• Bone nut & saddle
• Sound board: Available in Spruce or Cedar (solid woods) see other listings within the Kenny Hill Category – Player Series
• Back & sides: East Indian Rosewood (solid woods) – again, Kenny chooses the finest woods for all of his guitars.
• Fingerboard: Ebony
• Guitar is fitted with a dual action truss rod (all Hill Guitars, from his Signature Model down, including Estudio Models, have the same).
• Finish: Lacquer gloss, thinly applied
• 51mm nut width
• String Spacing: 44mm at 1st fret – 51mm at 12th fret – 60mm string spacing at bridge
• Retail Price is $1895 – Look for my Discounted Price in your Shopping Cart when you ADD to Cart

Players with shorter hands and/or fingers should seriously consider the 640mm 628mm or the 615mm scale.

• • My fitting sessions with numerous players over the years has proven that this slightly smaller scale is simply more comfortable for the majority of players, while sacrificing nothing in terms of tone and volume. The difference is the length of the neck, the width of the nut at 48-51mm and the proportional fretting of the instrument.

    • The 650mm is suitable for those players whose spread between thumb and pinky is 9″ or greater.

    • You can also measure your pinky tip to index finger tip spread comfortably.  You should be at 6.5″-7″ on this measurement – you would adjust 1″ less for each scale length lower.

    • The 640mm is suitable for those players whose spread between thumb and pinky is 8″-9″

    • The 628mm is best for players with a span of 7″-8″

    • The 615mm scale length is best for players with a span of 7″ or less to about 6″

  • Of course, these are generalizations, but I do find that most players fit these standards.

These guitars are setup by me personally, for lower action to the point of not making noise.  If you want to be aggressive with right hand velocity, I will raise by 0.25mm on both bass and treble sides.  This guitar is set right now at 3.5mm and 2.9mm bass and treble side at 12th fret open.

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Media

Listening with high quality headphones or audio equipment is highly recommended including EQ manipulation, if possible. We record everything flat with just a touch of Reverb to relieve dryness. My goal is to record the guitar as realistically as is possible. I speak in the recordings, my thoughts about the guitar (and possibly other things?).  My speaking also serves to give you my first impressions and to also give you a balance of the engineering (or lack thereof) versus the sound of the guitar.  I simply do not have time to engineer much of anything.  Thanks. Rich

Please NOTE that photos of all “production guitars” are stock photos, taken randomly for our numerous selection of guitars, whether they be from Kenny Hill – Esteve – Adalid or others.  It is virtually impossible and arduous to photograph each of our available production guitars.  I am, however, happy to take a few photos for you of any particular guitar with which your are interested.

Handcrafted instruments are photographed and listed individually, usually identified by a serial number, date and or some other combination.

MP3 Audio – 151009-hill-player-640c-ports – very impressive, from a tonal point of view as well as her power and projection.  As musical as any Hill Player in Cedar, this one has just that much more horsepower.  Very nice!

My Solo Book of sheet music is available here if you’re interested.

Richard F. Sayage – Solo Guitar Works Volume 1

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Shipping:

Premium Hard Shell Case (HSC) is included in your purchase price.
Insured FedEx Ground Shipping is included to the 50 US
Anywhere else is subject to the most recent quote from USPS
Please write to me for a detailed quote for International Shipping.
Packaging is professionally done within its hard-shell case.
It is always preferred that you come to the Studio to play it and pick it up.
Rich

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Warranty:

This guitar carries a 1 Year Warranty to the original owner against material or workmanship defects

Please read my Return Policy

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Email me directly if you need more info: [email protected]