Cultural Origins Of The Modern Guitar

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dformell

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Ruphus

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Thank you for the very informing and interesting work, Mr. Brune!
It´s been a pleasure to read.

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Ron.M

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Thanks for uploading those articles, Dan...

A bit technical for me, but I know Brune is a respected maker and it's good to read his thoughts and feelings on the subject.

cheers,

Ron

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dformell

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Hello Everybody,

A couple of people have requested a copy of the C.O.M.G. article but there was trouble sending due to file size limits with their email servers. The article - in PDF format - has been uploaded to the following:

https://www.yousendit.com/download/VnBybUpTSWU5RlkwTVE9PQ

The link is active until May 1.

Regards,

Dan

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Hi Everybody,

Here's an interesting photo of a gypsy group. La Zambra from 1890. The guitarist has, what looks like, a guitar with a rosewood body. The picture supports Mr. Brune's argument that prior to the 1930's there was no distinction between flamenco a classical guitars, just cheap and expensive models.

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Ruphus

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Thank you for the picture!
I just love sinking into historical photographies and trying to figure mentality of the time in question, reflected through postures and facial expressions.
( Interestingly, the mood in this very picture seems quite modern already.)

I used to fancy Torres´ guitar shape with a bit deeper corpus just like with todays classical guitars, as with this one for instance:

Whereas the specimen in the photography you provided features a shallow corpus, accomodating flamenco demands like still today.

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