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Chocolate Cedar?
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RE: Chocolate Cedar? (in reply to Exitao)
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Exitao This with using words in describing something as subjective as sound is very difficult, but I agree in some point that cypress guitars can have very bright and sweet trebles. The cypress guitars tend to "distort" a bit, making their high trebles "round". You can play a good cypress guitar very hard and it´ll just "distort" some more. Thats why they work so well for dance accompanying. if you know electrical guitars you´ll understand. Try a telecaster on a none distorted amp, and you´ll get a headache , cranc the (tube) amp a bit and the very high register will be more "mellow" Rosewood guitars can have very bright and clean trebles. When you play with capo on 5th or higher (Bulerias for Camaron or female singers) they can be really harsh if you push them hard. They dont have this capacity of "mellowing" they are direct and sharp. But in general, Rosewood guitars have a deeper overall sound because of their powerfull basses. I personally like this deep register of a rosewood guitar, the point is that in order to funcion as a flamenco guitar, you have to make the basses very responsive and with a relatively short sustain. I dissagree with the rest of the things you wrote about blancas and negras. And I only want to add that about 80% or more of the Negras built untill now are with spruce tops. Cedar topped negras are rare, but they are becomming more and more used. Cedar also has this tendency of "mellowing" the trebles and it has a completely different attack than spruce. That´s why cedar topped blancas can be very sweet. The problem with cedar is that if you work it to thin it becomes extremely "muddy" in the sound with basses which are deep but uncontrolable.
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Date Jun. 18 2006 7:41:22
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RE: Chocolate Cedar? (in reply to Exitao)
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BTW: how unreasonable is it to ship a guitar to N. America? Some 260 euros plus insurrance
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Date Jun. 18 2006 15:43:25
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