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RE: Son of Tomatito in Casa Patas (in reply to aeolus)
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ORIGINAL: aeolus
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its not a Reyes but a Conde, so it doesn't matter lol)
Here in the US of A a Reyes will sell for twice what a Conde will. Glad PdL didn't write on that one. ;-)
In Spain amoung gypsies things are a bit different,,,, a Conde without PdL signature on top and Tomate signature on buttom (or viceversa if you prefer tomate ;), without lot of scratches, dings and dongs is worthless piece of never played and dead museum piece of nice looking wood for collectors who can't play and no one buys it. Those guitars end up in vitrines, for tourists.
oh man, all these ruined 100 pesetas guitars ......
RE: Son of Tomatito in Casa Patas (in reply to Arash)
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is this the rosette theory which you are now applying on skin color ?
If hijo's parents are Spanish then Tomatito's offspring is not going to have brown skin unless...
Not trying to stir the pot but I find hijo and his fathers interaction on the video in the Conde shop most appealing and would like to know more about them.
Edit: from Wiki José Fernández Torres, known as Tomatito (born Almería, 1958), is a Spanish Romani flamenco guitarist. Having started his career accompanying famed flamenco singer Camarón de la Isla
So a gypsy and having been born and raised on the Texas/Mexican border, I can say that at my high school the boys ranged from white to pale brown to dark brown so speculation is pointless. It is interesting though.
RE: Son of Tomatito in Casa Patas (in reply to tele)
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JOSÉ `El del Tomate`
He really looks swarthy here. It is or maybe used to be the Spanish custom to name the boys Jose and then whatever name they would use day to day and the girls Maria Also adding the father's name and then the mother's. A guy could get writers cramp signing his name! But maybe Gypsys don't follow that custom. My mother, proud of her Spanish/Mexican ancestors named her first 3 daughters Marie followed by the name they used and I never knew that until many years later as it was supposed to honor the mother and foster father of Jesus but it was forgotten shortly after baptism I imagine.
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