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Ramon Amira

 

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Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? 
I can't quite make out the headstock in this video. It looks like it might be a Manuel Reyes, but I just can't see it clearly enough on my monitor. Does anyone know which luthier made the guitar he's playing in this video? It sounds fantastic.



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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 24 2009 11:36:38
 
Andy Culpepper

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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to Ramon Amira) 
He has a Reyes peghead that he plays in his other videos. Hard to tell but the headstock does look similar on this one.
  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 24 2009 11:53:06
 
Ramon Amira

 

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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to Andy Culpepper) 
Thanks. I thought it was a Reyes. I just looked at some of his other videos, and this is definitely the same guitar he plays in those other videos, so that solves it.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 24 2009 12:13:04
 
aeolus

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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to Ramon Amira) 
From what one can see of the rosette it's not. He's quite a character but he rocks. Maybe he should enter the composition challenge. He's sure to win! Wonder what he has in the pipe. I think I am beginning to appreciate this style more.

  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 24 2009 12:15:31
 
gj Michelob

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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to aeolus) 
Over time Manuel Reyes' guitars sported a variety of different rosettes, differently form the rosette we have learned to love on Amigo's model. The headstock in the video resembles the Reyes' shape. However, there are so many fine Reyes' replicas out there -Blackshear, Vazquez Rubio, Kenny Hill, to name a few- that the plain likeness of the intsrument could deceive.

Agreed, though, it sounds good, even with all the player's mistakes and untamed tone.

Viva Reyes !!

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 24 2009 12:26:56
 
Ramon Amira

 

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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to aeolus) 
Yes, I just took a closer look at the rosette in the Tientos video, and it's not the same as in those other videos. This guy is funny as hell, in Spanish or Japanese.

Speaking of which, this probably belongs in a new thread, but does anyone know how on earth the Japanese got so wild in love with flamenco? Some years ago they even kidnapped of all people, Arcangel Fernandez. Well, they didn't exactly kidnap him, but someone made him an offer he couldn't refuse, and I think he moved lock, stock, and barrel to Japan. Can anyone shed any light on the Japanese fascination with flamenco, and/or about Arcangel Fernandez' strange move.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 24 2009 12:31:17
 
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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to Ramon Amira) 
Archangel is a cranky old man who lives in Madrid and he likes to gamble.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 24 2009 15:16:41
 
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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to Ramon Amira) 
There was a thread about him a while back. I think he's from Sweden or thereabouts? Anyway he's really good, and his love for flamenco goes way back.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 24 2009 15:35:27
 
Ramon Amira

 

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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to kovachian) 
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There was a thread about him a while back. I think he's from Sweden or thereabouts? Anyway he's really good, and his love for flamenco goes way back.


Arcangel Fernandez from Sweden?! Huh?! We must be talking about two different people. I was referring to the great luthier Arcangel Fernandez from Madrid, who studied with Marcelo Barbero, and after Barbero's death took on Marcelo Barbero Hijo as his apprentice. Fernandez is considered one of the greatest luthiers of all time. Some years ago, a Japanese firm or gentleman contracted with Fernandez to buy his entire output for the Japanese market. I thought maybe he had just up and gone to Japan to be done with it. He would be somewhere is his late seventies now, and who knows if he's still building, but he might be.

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  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 24 2009 18:26:43
 
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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to kovachian) 
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There was a thread about him a while back. I think he's from Sweden or thereabouts?


Huib Wilkes (Payo Humberto) is from The Netherlands.
http://www.flamencosinmas.com/humberto.htm
  REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE |  Date Dec. 25 2009 2:22:01
 
Ramon Amira

 

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RE: Is this a Manuel Reyes guitar? (in reply to kozz) 
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Huib Wilkes (Payo Humberto) is from The Netherlands.


Right - I know Payo Humberto is from the Netherlands. I had been asking about Arcangel Fernandez, and someone replied "He's from Sweden," so I thought that he was referring to Fernandez.

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