Item # 106515497 | Customer Ratings: 
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The C9 is one of the first all-solid guitars in the Iberia series. Along with the sweet, warm tone provided by its all-solid body, the C9 features the vintage elegance of a hand-inlaid mother-of-pearl rosette inspired by a 1920s Domingo Esteso design. Comes with a Cordoba Polyfoam Case.
I am a semipro classical guitarist and needed a better gig guitar. I needed to have a decent classical to save my concert guitars from road rash and amplify. This guitar is not in the same league as my luthier built Thomas Fredholm or Antonio Raya Pardo, but it is a great student guitar. I fitted mine with the K&K classic pro transducer and put it through my LrBaggs preamp and Roland AC60. All in all a well built guitar with a respectable sound and feel. This is a great guitar for students and working musicians. The cedar top is thin and close grained, tuners are tight and accurate. The bone nut and saddle are well constructed. The finish is thin and allows the top to vibrate freely, ebony fretboard is dark and good quality. Frets are good sized and well dressed. I have owned a Yamaha CGX-171cca and this guitar is much better built. I recommend Cordoba Cadet, C5 and C7 for my students and decided to get one for my self.
This is an all-solid wood guitar with a great sounding Canadian cedar top and beautiful solid mahogany back and sides. It's light but wonderfully resonant. It has a powerful yet exquisite tone with rich bass and balanced and bright treble. It stands out over other guitars at this price range; no wonder it was picked and reviewed highly by the acoustic guitar magazine. I just got one for myself and I was impressed by how strongly I felt on my chest the vibration of the instrument as I played. This guitar is like a concert level instrument for the advanced student or a serious amateur at an unbelievably reasonable price. The finish is pretty and well done. The ebony fretboard is beautiful and fretting it feels very nice. The tuners are high grade, the type that you'd see on high end concert guitars and they are pretty and precise to the cent. The mother-of-pearl and ebony rosette is just gorgeous and makes you want to play more as you pass by the guitar while it's on the stand. In short, if you're a serious student of classical guitar, this is the guitar for you. If you don't have ten thousand dollars for a guitar but still want a guitar resonant enough for performance you can now get it for much less and still obtain a great instrument.
I gave up guitar playing when I went to College to major in Piano Performance, sold my Japanese Classical and Epiphone guitars then. 37 years and three music degrees later, I decided that it's really high time for me to get back to playing the guitar again. I visited various local Guitar Center at least once or twice a week to try out different guitars for about a month. Everytime I got to the store, I always checked to see if they had a Cordoba C9 first, and if they did, I would start playing the pieces/songs I still remember how to play on that instrument. Then I would tried other classical guitar brands like Orpheus Valley, Yamaha, La Patrie, Rodriguez, etc. to compare sound and price. I must say that what impressed me most about Cordoba C9 is that it is a pretty balanced guitar in terms of the low, mid, and high registers. And among the three registers, Cordoba's prominent strong bass can rival other more expensive guitars like the Rodriguez. Don't let the "Made in China" curtails your desire of purchasing this instrument. China in recent years has made big leaps in produing very fine quality string instruments (violins) and pianos. At the end of my one month's search, I could no longer wait to buy this guitar. Now, I pick this guitar and start playing everyday. Hours pass by without me noticing it.
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