Greetings from California

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Fawkes

Posts: 104
Joined: Feb. 11 2015

Greetings from California

Hello everyone,

I am in my 50s, and could be accused of being a pathological dabbler. I recently got a Kremona Rosa Moreno and Juan Martin's El Arte. I take the advice to find a teacher seriously but in the meantime I'm looking for good video that breaks down the individual finger movements and the hidden mechanics of some basic rasqueos.

It's taken me years to find a window into traditional flamenco unfortunately. I was into the GK for a while years ago, and I kept thinking there would be real treasures in the world of traditional flamenco, but it wasn't until I heard the flamenco in the movie Pandora and the Flying Dutchman and started trying to find out who the guitarist was that I found a path into it.

I'm also very interested in lutherie and am afflicted with fantasies of building a better guitar for myself, but we'll see.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 11 2015 22:01:45

BarkellWH

Posts: 3461
Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC

RE: Greetings from California (in reply to Fawkes)

Welcome to the Foro, Fawkes. If you have been following it a bit before becoming a member, you will know that there are some fine flamenco guitar players and luthiers here who are a wealth of information. There are also many past threads you can research for information on all sorts of things that might pique your interest. We have an "Off-Topic" section that occasionally gets some of us going on everything from politics to cosmology and black holes.

On each November 5, a few of us celebrate Guy Fawkes Day and the failure of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament and assassinate King James, by hoisting a Black and Tan or a glass of ale. Are you by chance any relation?

Cheers,

Bill

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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white,
With the name of the late deceased,
And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here,
Who tried to hustle the East."

--Rudyard Kipling

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 11 2015 23:07:43

Fawkes

Posts: 104
Joined: Feb. 11 2015

RE: Greetings from California (in reply to BarkellWH)

Thanks for the welcome Bill. Yes I've been lurking and searching various topics, and I nearly got sucked into the OT forum just now. Must... pace... self...

I'm no relative, but I often find that things I like come from that part of the world.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Feb. 11 2015 23:41:07