Hauser "Wiener" - created 03-15-2008

Jimenez, Paco - 03/15/2008.08:13:24

There are some Hauser guitar plans available and abundant info about Hauser classicals made in the Classical or Torres style, Specially the Segovia's guitar. But anyone knows if there are plans and/or tech info and data about Hauser wide bodied wieners made in the Stauffer style by '10s and '20s anywhere?

Thanks.

I'm reasonably sure this kind of link is now allowed...

http://www.zavaletas-guitarras.com/files/hauser.htm

No plans but construction details, some measurements and good photographs.

I know this site. But thanks anyway.

What do you mean by "wide bodied"? Contra or Schrammel 9 to 19 strings double necked guitars of the Viennese tradition? If so you can have a first look at Gregg Miner's web site ("Harp guitars"). You find them at location 2C of his brave attempt to classify them. There is a Hauser I 1917. I do not think H I built a lot of them.

Bruné repaired a famous Scherzer and built a replica I believe. Cannot recall the number of strings.

Paco,

-"What do you mean by "wide bodied"?"

Typically made wieners range from 30 to 32 cm at lower bout. This was usually increased a bit in early 20th century examples. About 32 to 34 cm wide. But Hauser went further with lower bouts surpassing the 36cm (about 14.5") for 6 string guitars.

-""Hermann Hauser Foundation" in München with (I think) a starting collection of guitars by HH I. You could ask them if they could help you."

Thanks a lot for the hint, Alain.

Paco,

I am still deterred to build a very big Gaetano Guadagnini of 1837( a beauty figuring in the Lorenzo Frignani "Cento di Pieve Exhib. catalog"). So big and NO struts, just a board and two braces! And Guadagnini is such a family! But I will never have the guts to copy that one.

Aguado had two rather big guitars made by Lacote toward 1860(I think). Now in Madrid in the reserves of the Historical Museum I was told.

If I ever got that plan I let you know.

I guess you already know it, but there's a great study from the Leipzig University Museum about the Weissgerber guitars made by Richard Jacob in Markneukirchen. His wieners have a 35.5 cm lower bout. Not as wide as hausers but quite big for a wiener. There are no full plans, but there's a chart of top thicknesses, a bracing patterns chart and full meassurements and tonal charts of a few models.

-"Now in Madrid in the reserves of the Historical Museum I was told."

Which historical museum is this?

Ok, I will look the Weissgerber Collection. Thanks, good tip.

I were told Aguado's guitars are, in pretty bad shape, in the reserve of the Arqueological Museum (in fact an History Museum as you konw) on Serrano. I hardly believed it, but my source is the N°1 collector here, very serious man. Anyway, you better check before asking to see them.

Paco,

Jacob,a great professional for sure, tried during his long career almost everything possible...sometimes it is really "kitsch".

At the site of Crane you can find a plan of a stauffer-style guitar.

http://www.crane.gr.jp/CRANE_etc/CRANE_Plan_E.html

Alain, the same happened with Hauser wieners. The early examples were built in the Vienna tradition, but after the Aguado's guitar inspection he started to build in the spanish way, This new approach was influential in all his guitars, the later wieners sounded kinda spanish. You can check audio samples of the two Hauser wiener versions in Zabaleta's site. They sound quite different.

Jan, the Stauffer-like you linked is one of the usual regularly sized guitars. We are searching info of the later wider variants

Jan,