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elias

 

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Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? 
Any love for acoustic steel string here? If so, your favorite guitar makers, tonewoods etc?

I'm a sucker for that Martin spruce/mahogany sound, and flamenco technique really adds to my fingerstyle playing.
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Morante

 

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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to elias) 
Alhambra, arce rizado, abeto.
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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to elias) 
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Any love for acoustic steel string here? If so, your favorite guitar makers, tonewoods etc?

Of course I do. No fav guitar makers though.

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flamenco technique really adds to my fingerstyle playing.

Flamenco technique on steel string? I hope not. After I mastered flamenco technique I'll never play fingerstyle on steel string again. Different string spacing, steel strings etc. and overall a different feel. I dont want to confuse my right hand. So I'll play steel string guitar only with a pick.

It would be interesting ro read foro members opinion on this matter.

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Morante

 

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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to devilhand) 
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After I mastered flamenco technique


¡Wow! Wish I could say the same!!!
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mark indigo

 

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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to elias) 
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Any love for acoustic steel string here?


no, not from me. don't like those nasty cheesewire strings and metallic twangy sound...

also my left hand gets claustrophobia with the narrow string spacing

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mark indigo

 

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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to devilhand) 
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After I mastered flamenco technique


in order to do so, you will first have to master humility.



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Different string spacing, steel strings etc. and overall a different feel. I dont want to confuse my right hand. So I'll play steel string guitar only with a pick.


there are plenty who play both steel and nylon. Ralph Towner plays jazz/fusion on classical guitar and 12 string, Sean Shibe plays classical and electric, and there is a flamenco guy, I think from Finland, but based in Madrid, Raul Mannola, he plays [steel] 12 string and [nylon] flamenco guitars.

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Richard Jernigan

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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to mark indigo) 
Michael Chapdelaine:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Chapdelaine

"Chapedelaine was the only guitarist ever to win First Prize in the world's top competitions in both the Classical and Fingerstyle genres. He won the Guitar Foundation of America International Classical Guitar Competition and the National Fingerstyle Championships at the Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival in Winfield, Kansas.[1] His performances, played on both steel string and classical guitars, included musical styles ranging from blues, to baroque, to country, to rhythm 'n' blues."

RNJ
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elias

 

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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to devilhand) 
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ORIGINAL: devilhand

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flamenco technique really adds to my fingerstyle playing.

Flamenco technique on steel string? I hope not. After I mastered flamenco technique I'll never play fingerstyle on steel string again. Different string spacing, steel strings etc. and overall a different feel. I dont want to confuse my right hand. So I'll play steel string guitar only with a pick.

It would be interesting ro read foro members opinion on this matter.


It's really not too confusing to change it up. I like it when all my guitars feel and sound a bit different and I have no problems adapting. I do find it cute when acoustic players complain that a 44.5 mm nut is too wide or a 640 mm scale length is too long.
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Joan Maher

 

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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to elias) 
I have just finished building a steel-string based on a Spanish-style body, sounds very nice.

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elias

 

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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to Joan Maher) 
Intriguing. What woods did you use? I'd love to try a spruce/cypress steel string.
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Ricardo

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RE: Acoustic Steel String - Do you play? (in reply to elias) 
My friend Mario Ceasar Oretea from Boliva builds really unique designs, all tend to have a good flamenco feel to them, and excellent live sound electronics. Tonino uses a couple. Last year he made a steel string that was hilariously fun to play, even with flamenco techniques, and of course ends up with a unique sound. I had a video playing that I never posted I will try to dig up.

https://mcoguitars.com/gallery

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