by PickerAUS » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:51 pm
I'll be interested too. I have a BM Concert classical bought in the late 60's maybe 1970. It has the widest, flattest neck I've ever played or seen. Big body, long scale length, nice action but light in weight with a laminated top. I needed to use high tension strings to get decent volume out of it, otherwise it was a fine, though brutish guitar.
(Strangely enough, my next guitar was a short scale length, small bodied Sanchez which I used for years... must have been some sort of compensation.)
I don't think it was Aria manufactured though.... Feels like a Yamaha to me. Who else built big bodied classicals?