This elegant French romantic guitar by Manuel Adalid is not a copy of a particular 19th maker but certainly looks to the Lacote school for its inspiration. In this lovely guitar, Manuel uses a french system of ladder bracing with a transverse bar--and while following the typical dimensions and scale of the period, gives us a more functional modern bridge while retaining the aesthetic the old pin bridge. Everything is right about the sound. It is what one would expect from a good quality Lacote.