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Ricardo
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RE: Tomatito taking classical guitar... (in reply to Echi)
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ORIGINAL: Echi It’s just that all the movie long Tomatito played his Reyes and somehow this is a deserved tribute for the art of a guitar maker. Imagine that Tomatito played a different maker guitar: I guess he would be proud to see Tomatito playing the guitar in the movie. Well, at the end you see instead the smiling face of Felipe Conde and his son who have really nothing to do with the guitar played by Tomatito. This is obviously a marketing practice and a misleading message for those unable to distinguish a Reyes guitar. Well, in all honesty, Tomatito was using a Felipe Conde circa 1995, beautifully captured in the Flamenco movie of Saura and the Encuentro instructional, and that instrument has a FAR superior voice to the miriad of Reyes guitars he has been using since, all of which fall short of other finely voiced Reyes instruments used by other players.....IMO. Also there is a scene where Tomatito and son are at the NAMM booth of Felipe Conde, trying out some guitars. So the Felipe Conde inclusion is totally appropriate IMO, regardless which instruments Tomate has been using, and further, there is zero implication that a luthier at work has anything to do with the career of the featured artist, any more than his little stroll through the Almeria guitar museum has some connection to the artist. Cheers, Ricardo
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Date Sep. 22 2017 19:45:03
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Echi
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RE: Tomatito taking classical guitar... (in reply to Ricardo)
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Well, in all honesty, Tomatito was using a Felipe Conde circa 1995, beautifully captured in the Flamenco movie of Saura and the Encuentro instructional, and that instrument has a FAR superior voice to the miriad of Reyes guitars he has been using since, all of which fall short of other finely voiced Reyes instruments used by other players.....IMO. So the Felipe Conde inclusion is totally appropriate IMO, regardless which instruments Tomate has been using, and further, there is zero implication that a luthier at work has anything to do with the career of the featured artist, any more than his little stroll through the Almeria guitar museum has some connection to the artist. Ricardo, in my opinion there is a clear connection between Tomatito and Almeria as he was born down there and always had connections with flamenco figures and makers of that area, like Gerundino, Eladio and Miguel Gonzales. Tomatito played and owned many guitars (and in fact he defines himself as a collector): among his many guitars I would point out first Bellido and Gerundino, but I wouldn’t have problems to add to the list also Conde Hermanos Felipe V. Nonetheless honestly I keep not seeing the link with the guitars branded Felipe Conde. I suppose everybody knows that Tomatito’s main guitars on stage have been old Faustino Conde and more recently a Reyes. Look, I’ m not making any judgement here about the guitars made by Felipe Conde. Btw I started a thread with the title: “is Manuel Reyes overrated?”. Nonetheless I don’t like this kind of aggressive marketing Felipe Conde is known for.
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Date Sep. 22 2017 20:22:51
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