Antonio de Torres

1817-1892

The SE 43 was build by Antonio de Torres 1883.

The original Instrument has a Cedro neck with a 650 scale fingerboard, Spruce top and Maple was used for back and sides.It is known, that this Torres guitar was one of his masterpieces and later on it influenced the work of famous guitarbuilders like Manuel Ramirez, who repaired it in 1912 and Robert Bouchet who did some reconstruction work in 1950 on this guitar.

This guitar now is part of the collection of the Musee Instrumental du Conservatoire de Paris, France.In terms of measurements and inside construction the SE 43 is very close to Tarregas last guitar, the SE 114 which was originally build with Rosewood back and sides.

At the Milestone Luthier Center we build the close to the original version 1A and a economic version A.

We give You the same choices of wood as for the FE 17 and offer a 640 scale fingerboard too.

A real left hand version for both guitars can be made on request.