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Yes, there is a way to build flamenco guitars with sustain but as a underlying frequency that accentuates the notes being played, not with a lot of surface noise, but as a quick attack; immediate sound with a mournful inner support of lower frequencies in the actual sustain. To achieve this takes a lot of middle register relief without sacrificing the guitar's sharp outer edge; basically maintaining a more open inner voice with different colors and keeping its tight edge.

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ORIGINAL: estebanana

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I have checked out Reyes models since 1976 and I find that no two seem to be exactly alike, perhaps due to Don Manuel's prolific style of research and development.

I think he just gets bored building it the same way every time. I'll see if I can borrow the 1969 Reyes for a few days and take sum pitchers ob it.

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ORIGINAL: estebanana

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Yes, there is a way to build flamenco guitars with sustain but as a underlying frequency that accentuates the notes being played, not with a lot of surface noise, but as a quick attack; immediate sound with a mournful inner support of lower frequencies in the actual sustain. To achieve this takes a lot of middle register relief without sacrificing the guitar's sharp outer edge; basically maintaining a more open inner voice with different colors and keeping its tight edge.

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Jason knows that stuff too. I'm a lot less verbal about how to expain it than both a yous guys.

It's exactly as you say Tom, the overtone supports the fundamental string sound. If you play the fundamental note and the guitar sounds like Nino Ricardo is inside the guitar playing the higher up partials of the same note with you, then it's right. :)

I had a scientist freind isolate the Nino Ricardo gene and we introduced it into a forest of trees. We're hoping the human DNA will adapt to live in the mitocondria cells of the trees. Look for our paper in the journal Nature in 15 years.