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RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to HolyEvil)
Conde Hermanos media luna blanca- luthier 30 Conde Hermanos blanca- la bella 820 Hermanos Sanchis Lopez Rafael cortes model- La bella flamenco 2001 hard tension Bernal, Sueno- la bella flamenco 2001 hard tension
Try La bella 820 on that Negra I sold you; I thought they suited it and if you like eJ45, I think you might like them. 820 are very different from the 2001, which I know you didn't like.
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RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to HolyEvil)
'82 Arcangel Fernandez blanca and '67 Jose Ramirez 1a blanca: Savarez red card '91 Contreras spruce/Brazilian "doble tapa" D'Addario EJ-45 '73 Romanillos spruce/Indian Savarez New Cristale medium tension '09 Abel Garcia spruce/Brazilian Savarez New Cristale medium tension '01 Arturo Huipe cedar/cocobolo Savarez Corum Alliance medium tension
I settled on the Savarez for the Ramirez long ago. I tried Hannabachs on the Arcangel, but had intonation problems.
I went through a pretty long list of choices on the Romanillos. Some were too bright, many of the "carbons" had intonation problems, which might have been cured by compensating the nut and saddle, but I like the New Cristales the best.
The Contreras came with D'Addario EJ-45s, and I like them better than anything else I've tried on it. I haven't done any comprehensive testing on this guitar.
The Garcia is a world class guitar, almost as good as the Romanillos, and it's hardly played in. At present it's a little brighter than the Romanillos with the same strings.
The Huipe is not quite as loud as the other classicals, though it's a nice guitar. The Alliances punch it up a bit.
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RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to stratos13)
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Sorry, off topic, but which of the guitars do you prefer and why?
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ORIGINAL: Richard Jernigan
'82 Arcangel Fernandez blanca and '67 Jose Ramirez 1a blanca: Savarez red card '91 Contreras spruce/Brazilian "doble tapa" D'Addario EJ-45 '73 Romanillos spruce/Indian Savarez New Cristale medium tension '09 Abel Garcia spruce/Brazilian Savarez New Cristale medium tension '01 Arturo Huipe cedar/cocobolo Savarez Corum Alliance medium tension
RNJ
The Arcangel is my favorite flamenco guitar of all that I have ever played. It is very loud, brilliant, has an aggressive percussion in rasgueados, but still is capable of a lyric, singing tone. It has deep basses with a tone that reminds me of a good cantaor. When I had Richard Bruné appraise it before I bought it, he commented on the very thin top. I have had the guitar for several years, and it shows no deformation.
Having said all that, I still love the Ramirez blanca, the first great guitar I ever owned.
Among the classicals, the Romanillos is my favorite. It has plenty of volume and the widest tonal range of any classical I have played. The Garcia is a close second. It's still new. It is a little brighter than the Romanillos at present, with not quite the tonal range. Garcia has studied with Romanillos, and speaks of him with admiration.
The Arcangel is my favorite flamenco guitar of all that I have ever played. [/quote]
I was sure before you would say! It seems Arcangel Fernandez Guitars are amazing! I have played a classical Arcangel, and it was crazy good, and the owner sold it for a ridiculus 16000 euros.
WAY off my budget, so i settled with a 1400euro handmade from an unknown luthier in Seville. This is the best flamenco i have played, but i am sure if i could play a flamenco Arcangel i would change my mind quickly
RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to HolyEvil)
Good strings are luthier and I actually use a combination of augustine gold and la bella 850B. Very good. Pricing + sound + long-live. And the best about the la bella 850B is, the trebles are almost immediately bright when you tie em on the guitar. They only need some days to become good.
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RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to Doitsujin)
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And the best about the la bella 850B is, the trebles are almost immediately bright when you tie em on the guitar.
The trebles are exact the same as 820B set. Only the basses are different. I use 820 reds as well on all my guitars except the Sanchis. The sanchis I use Luthier 20. Due to some weird circumstances I have a mix of strings on my Sobrinos de Esteso. The basses and 3rd string are la bella 820. The first string is augustine, and the 2nd is a "jose luis postigo" string, whatever brand that really is.
RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to HolyEvil)
Question!! Long time ago i bought daddario COMPOSITE basses, they were supposed to be brown because of a different material (as it said on the lable) and sounded like CRAZY. Then i bought another set but this time it was silver?? Did daddario change the production or are there two different composite models?
edit: i checked and found 2 models, normal and polished ones. But i think i tried both and they are not the brown ones.
Todd i swear, they were brown. The cover in which the strings were stored was also not plastic, like in todays composites, but of paper. They had a warning on that cover which said something like "these strings are not made of nylon, so they have a different color. Dont be surprised about the color it is normal if its brown" etc etc They looked ugly brown (like old old strings) and left a smell on your fingers, maybe that is the reason they stopped selling it. But i swear they were by far the best bass strings ive heard!
RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to HolyEvil)
D'addario's brown G string and "composite" basses are not carbon, they're polyketone. It's the same funky plastic that they use in their Zyex violin/viola strings.
RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to kovachian)
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D'addario's brown G string and "composite" basses are not carbon,
Yeah, i know the basses arent. They seem like the same as regular basses to me.
I dont waste my money on the Composite sets.
Somebody gave me a set of the EXP J45's recently which are the "coated" version, like the Elixirs, but they sound pretty much the same as regular, and dont last any longer.
Over the years, ive tried seemingly everything. Labella, Saverez, Luthier, Augustine, Hannanbach, etc, and i always come back to plain old D'addarios which are what i used to start with over 2 decades ago. TK
RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to krichards)
Thx krichards! I have found a post of me where i praise these strings here. It really looks like they discontinued this string. Im gonna write a mail to ask, but im pretty sure it was because people didnt like the looks. They were by far better than the current composites (normal & polished).
RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to Ricardo)
You said that 820b treble strings are the same as 850b trebles. Strings by mail say that the 850b are higher tension. Would you notice the difference coz it seems a lot.
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RE: Strings and your guitars (in reply to 12850bd)
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ORIGINAL: 12850bd
You said that 820b treble strings are the same as 850b trebles. Strings by mail say that the 850b are higher tension. Would you notice the difference coz it seems a lot.
From what I remember (2004 or so 20 years ago lol) the 850 set had gold basses and black nylon trebles. I don’t remember feeling any difference in the trebles compared to 820b, however things could have changed since then. Honestly those numbers are not showing crazy spreads of tension, and remember what kitarist posted some time ago that showed when strings get tuned up to standard pitch, certain discrepancies balance out.
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