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RE: "Andalusian" Guitars (no trolling)
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cRobson12
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RE: "Andalusian" Guitars (... (in reply to KMMI77)
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What about.... assemble, cast, compile, compose, contrive, engineer, erect, evolve, fabricate, fashion, fit together, forge, form, frame, jerry-build, knock together, make, manufacture, model, prefabricate, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, reconstruct? So many to choose from !
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Date Feb. 23 2011 11:50:08
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estebanana
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RE: "Andalusian" Guitars (... (in reply to Sean)
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Apologies in advance for the trolling. I absolutely hate it when people call making a guitar a "build". It's incorrect English. I began to dislike this when people started saying things like: "Oh yeah that plan is a good build." Guitar makers make guitars from scratch with pencil, plantilla outline, a ruler, a compass and a few other drawing tools. It's not a build, as if you can go buy a a guitar at Ikea and screw it together. It's a process and if you understand it you don't follow a plan, you are the plan. Maybe that sounds arrogant to some people and if so too bad. See Stradivari had to develop his own forms and templates and any good well studied guitar maker, violin maker, bow maker etc. had to do the same thing by copying the teachers tools and templates. There is no such thing as a plan; a measured drawing is a set of data. In order to make an instrument from it you have to have the skill to interpret it and make it. It is not a "build" like it's some hobby, it is way of thinking in three dimensional form and conceptualizing a musical instrument beginning with a string. The plan of a guitar is not a plan for a guitar, it's a plan for a box of wood. The guitar or cello or violin begins with a string, the guitar is string with a box of wood created around it. It's designed to take advantage of the energy from the string to make sound. The guitar is not a box of wood with a set of strings attached to it. A guitar is a string with a box of wood to support it. Plans perpetuate the idea that a guitar is a hunk of bent wood. Once you get passed this basic fallacy the language and intentions in making a guitar come ever clearer. When I get into a bigger shop I'm going to teach because I'm very frustrated with the level of discourse around the subject. I have one private student right now who I'm working with and I am having him draw his guitar rather than purchase a plan. In this way he will be liberated from having to follow someone else idea blindly. By drawing out the guitar you can learn why the proportions are laid out that way and you also learn how to 'read' other guitars you want to learn form. So in long form, it drives me crazy to read so and so is doing a build. It's retarded language and retarded thinking. So there, Yank on that.
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Date Feb. 24 2011 0:47:28
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