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Bom dia from Portugal and some questions
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belkis
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Bom dia from Portugal and some questions
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Bom dia everyone, my wife and me live on a small farm in central Portugal. We live in a "simple" self-sufficient way: growing our own vegetables, raising animals, and having a lot of fun! We are off-grid (producing our own electricity with solar panels), and have our own water source. We have no television, minimal internet connection (+/-1 hour per week), and we use our car rarely, about once a month (a 4x4, because we live in the middle of nowhere). We live in a small house, about 20 m2 (200 square ft) and we each work about 25-30 hours a week on our farm to sustain ourselves, so we have "a lot" of free time. The weather is very nice, 300 days of sun per year. We live outside most of the time. But it can get very hot during the summer, and very rainy during the winter. A typical mediterranean climate. Not so many years ago, we were part of the "modern" way of life. We lived in a huge, 3 bathroom house with a lot of utterly useless stuff. We had very well-paid jobs that kept us occupied for at least 80 hours per week. We arrived home exhausted, with just enough energy left for watching a stupid movie on tv. So where does this story lead to? We both learnt classical guitar when we were teenagers, many years ago (classical school, 5 years with a teacher). Since we have a lot of free time now and no tv and almost no internet, we picked up our guitars (hand-made models from famous luthiers, we could afford a lot in the past;) and started to play, regularly, a couple of hours per day. In my "stuff" from the past, I found some dvd's and books of Graf-Martinez: Flamenco method vol I and II. So I started to learn flamenco on my classical guitar. Yes I know, the sound and action etc is completely different, but I still enjoyed playing flamenco on my classical guitar. But I am now coming to a point that I will seriously damage my guitar if I go on playing (no golpeador). And I don't want to glue a golpeador on my guitar. My choices are limited, if I want to go on playing flamenco. There are no musical instrument shops in our neighborhood {40km/25 miles around us). - I could buy a cheap classical model online and glue a golpeador on that guitar, but I decided it's time to have a more flamenco sounding guitar. - I could buy a new flamenco guitar on internet. Well, maybe as a last resort. I really don't want to buy a guitar without hearing how it sounds. - I could buy a second-hand flamenco guitar online. Same remark.... - I could go to a shop and try several flamenco guitars. I would like that, but in our neighborhood there are no shops and further away, I have not been able to find a shop that sells at least some different models of flamenco guitars. All shops I have been to, had electric, classical and acoustic guitars but no choice in flamenco guitars... It's a long story but as we live in a very simple way (materialistically), storytelling becomes a fundamental way of life... My questions are: -Could anyone tell us if there are any shops in Portugal that offer a decent range of flamenco guitars (Lisboa, Coimbra, Porto,..) -Spain is not that far, Salamanca is 200km, Madrid 350km, Granada 400km. I am willing (reluctantly) to drive that distance to find a good guitar. Maybe someone on this forum could advice on a luthier that offers a good beginner flamenco model? -Is there anyone in the Central Portugal area willing to sell her or his second hand flamenco guitar? Thanks a lot, Greetings from Portugal Rudi ps there are quite a lot of gypsies living in our area, but I haven't found any yet that are still playing the flamenco guitar....the times they are a-changing
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