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Help me identify this blanca please
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gj Michelob
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RE: Help me identify this blanca please (in reply to Pimientito)
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Nice find. The Rosette speaks of consummate craftsmanship, regardless of your ability to affiliate the guitar with a famous name. The feel of the headstock (although in your find is not as sharp, but curved rather) and of the rosette (but not identical) immediately brought to mind, Marcelino Lopez. I remember one of his guitars well, because I was considering it the first time a visited GSI in LA; I held it in my hands at length and studied it very carefully. Its sound was beautifully hollow, purely resonant of aged wood. Here are a few. However, it could very well be a copy of a Lopez or Santos, in the same fashion Vazquez Rubio or Kenny Hill replicated the “Reyes” model. The Rosette is nearly identical to the Spanish Master’s design and the headstock retraces nearly all elements of the complex Reyes. Marcelino Lopez http://www.classicguitar.com/61Lopez277_lg.html Marcelino Lpez http://www.guitarsalon.com/product.php?productid=279 Marcelino Lpez http://www.guitarsalon.com/product.php?productid=277 Marcelino Lpez http://www.denverfolklore.com/instrument_photos/Marcelino_Lopez_photos.htm Note: According to Lopez himself, he was asked by Hernandez in 1971 to build a guitar for him, who was very pleased with it and ordered more and more. After some time Hernandez asked Lopez to build an exact copy of his own guitar (the original Hernandez y Aguado guitar) which is what he did after quite some time of examining this guitar. Hernandez was extremely pleased with it. From 1971 until Hernandez died, Lopez built 30 guitars for him. This guitar is a copy of that Hernandez y Aguado model Marcelino Lopez built for Hernandez, therefore the stamp inside: H A. http://members.tripod.com/music_treasures/acguit.htm ------------ a few other sharing certain traits in the headstock, but i a much sharper version: Santos Hernandez http://www.guitarsalon.com/product.php?productid=601 Barbero http://www.guitarsalon.com/product.php?productid=549 Manuel de la Chica http://www.guitarsalon.com/product.php?productid=555
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