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Regarding your guitar, have you found ' The One' ?
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silddx

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Regarding your guitar, have you foun... 
My apologies if this has been done before.
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RobF

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RE: Rearding your guitar, have you f... (in reply to silddx) 
I think it depends on the person. I know pro players who’ll find a guitar that works for them and then just use it until it wears out. They don’t even necessarily have to be expensive instruments. I’ve done setup work on guitars like this where I can’t believe how someone can make something that’s so out of whack sound so good. Then they get it back and fall in love all over again and go back to playing it until it’s well overdue for its next adjustment.

The opposite side of the spectrum finds finicky players who seemingly can never be satisfied unless the instrument meets some vague but very specific parameters. They seem to go through guitars like others go through socks. Buy and sell, rinse, repeat.

Then there’s the rest of us, normal people, who love each instrument for what it is and can’t seem to get enough of the things. I think two is a reasonable minimum, but maybe seven is a luckier number.

I don’t think there’s such a thing as ‘The One’, at least not for me, so consider yourself blessed if you’ve found yours.
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chester

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RE: Regarding your guitar, have you ... (in reply to silddx) 
Yes, but I was irresponsible and left it laying around everywhere until someone stepped on it and completely destroyed the top.
It was a '68 Papazian (Armenian dude that worked out of NYC) that impressed everyone that heard it (including Caballero and McGuire).
I sold all my cool electric gear to finance it and now that I'm no longer a music student with serious aspirations, I can't justify the cost of a comparable instrument.

Also, it happened on the day Paco died.
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Ricardo

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RE: Regarding your guitar, have you ... (in reply to silddx) 
It is the old standard Conde Blanca…perhaps it becomes the A26 at some point, but it seems to have existed since the 50’s or 60’s in concept. Very little difference of note between my 73 and 97 and others I have encountered, which function as workhorse flamenco guitars for me since I first got them in my hands. I have been using my negra last half decade as a primary weapon, however, always in the back of my mind, if I had to get rid of all 19 other guitars I have, the ONE to keep would be either one of those. Obviously the 73 is vintage (and older than me). Recently a friend built for me a replica pink Ibanez Gilbert/Racer-X shred guitar that I can’t put down…the hot pink is way shinier than the rather dull orange by comparison.

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