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ROZAWOOD ACOUSTIC SPEAKER SYSTEM
This unique system used in ROZAWOOD MASTERVOICE guitars solves the problem of how to enable the player to hear exactly the same sound of his guitar as the listeners in front of him.
While only making another hole in the side results in losing the acoustic pressure inside the body with fatal impact to the front sound projection, Roman’s construction of the curved rosette and the inside wooden “speaking-tube” ensures that the front projection will be the same and a part of the sound will go from the side to the player’s ears.
Simple idea, but many years of experimenting to find the right solution...
BELLISIMO "DOUBLE-WOOD" TOP
As you know, our BELLISIMO guitars have a “one kind of wood” look but they keep the beauty of the Spruce top sound. It is allowed by Roman’s original top construction.
The “usual” Spruce top is overlaid by a very thin plate of solid wood of the same kind as back and sides. But don’t be fooled! It has nothing common with plywood, because the top plate of wood is quarter sawn solid wood glued on the Spruce top and then sanded up to 0,5 mm thickness. These only two wood plates (Spruce and cover wood) are glued together with high quality hide glue and with the same grains direction. So the wood is working the same way as solid wood while the plywood veneers are glued with crossed grain directions.
This results in a very unique sound. The guitar still sounds as a Spruce top guitar but sometimes with more sustain, sometimes with more treble or bass response – depending on the kind of cover wood that is used.