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aarongreen

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New Guitar Day

I recently finished up a cedar/braziian negra with soundports for a good friend here in MA. He is a student of my good buddy and client Juanito Pascual. I delivered the guitar to him the day it was strung up, not something I normally would do but he had been rather patient and the guitar was very alive from the get go. Juanito stopped by his place to check it out and I took a quick impromptu vid of him working her over. At the point of this recording the guitar was about 5 hours old with many 25 minutes worth of playing time on her. I am definitely pleased. Hope everyone likes it

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 14:15:38

Ruphus

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

Hi Aaron,

long time no talk. :O)
Could you upload an - no too large- mp3 here, please? I can´t access youtube.

Thanks and best wishes,

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 14:28:06

guitarbuddha

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

Loved the sound of the guitar, the room acoustic, the buleria and the guys playing.

Great !

D.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 14:51:32

jshelton5040

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

I love cedar guitars. This one sounds great. Congratulations!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 18:27:51

Leñador

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From: Los Angeles

RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

Wow, growls a lot more then I thought a cedar/rosewood would! Great stuff!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 18:42:28

rogeliocan

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From: Canada

RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

I am reminded of the scene in Back To The Future when Marty hands over the modified skateboard (in the 1950s) to the kid and the kid looks at it in awe.... that is what Juanito is doing to the guitar. Man he can play, and the guitar sounds like it is pretty damn good. Ole!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 18:55:07

Erik van Goch

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

:-)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 19:44:21

Tom Blackshear

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

I notice a lot of string noise. Does this calm down when the guitar ages a little?

Otherwise I would like to hear it some months after it ages a little. Ole!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 19:51:11

aarongreen

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to Tom Blackshear)

Tom,
Are you asking in general? The strings were not even stretched out yet.

A

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 20:49:53

tele

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

Sounds really good and I wouldn't guess that it has cedar top without seeing it. Very flamenco

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 21:23:29

Tom Blackshear

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

quote:

ORIGINAL: aarongreen

Tom,
Are you asking in general? The strings were not even stretched out yet.

A

Good answer, thanks....

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 21:27:34

Ruphus

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

Good answers and no answers.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 29 2013 21:56:30

Tom Blackshear

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to Ruphus)

Ruphus, Aaron builds a credible guitar that impresses a lot of people. A collector in Texas who collects his guitars tells me I had better watch out

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 17:09:03

Don Dionisio

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From: Durham, NC

RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

O f***ing le!!
That is the way a flamenco guitar should sound
Congrats!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 17:39:57

keith

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From: Back in Boston

RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

tom, "a credible guitar"? i would say aaron builds incredible guitars. i have played several of his over the years and have done an a/b "test" against sabicas' barbero (yes that one) as well as an awesome ramirez and arcangel and in my opinion aaron matched up quite nicely with the barbero and arcangel and surpassed the ramirez.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 18:33:02

Tom Blackshear

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to keith)

Great, so when are you going to order one? He needs a new pair of shoes, and so do the rest of us......

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 18:41:53

Ruphus

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to Tom Blackshear)

quote:

ORIGINAL: Tom Blackshear

Ruphus, Aaron builds a credible guitar that impresses a lot of people. A collector in Texas who collects his guitars tells me I had better watch out

I know, we have had a couple of interesting talks over past years on the AG forum and Aaron was always good for informing bits on the guitar subject.
But in the meantime something seems to have changed as he appears to have decided to ignore my kind inquiry above.
That´s life.

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 19:27:11

Arash

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From: Iran (living in Germany)

RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

The guitar sounds great.

I specially like the seperation of the sound and the low sustain, specially when rasueados are played.
And that the guitar doesn't sound "muddy" and too classical like so many Cedar Negras out there.

Congrats.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 19:52:19

Tom Blackshear

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to Ruphus)

Ruphus, it was probably just an oversight with Aaron. I'm sure he will get back with you about your questions.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 19:54:51

Arash

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to Ruphus)

Ruphus, i did it for you,extracted the MP3 from the video and uploaded it in the audio section (its not possible to upload mp3 in this section).

Here it is (hope thats ok with Aaron Green)

http://www.foroflamenco.com/tm.asp?m=234228&p=1&tmode=1&smode=1

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 20:08:21

Ruphus

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

I didn´t want to listen to it anymore, but now I do again, because of your dear efforts.

Muchas gracias, Amigo!

Ruphus

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 20:31:43

aarongreen

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

Hi Guys
Thanks for all the kind words, I am happy that everyone is responding so positively

Ruphus,
Sorry, I was not exactly sure of how to do what you were asking me to do, I am rather low tech. In any case hope you like what you heard.

Arash
Thank you very much, I am most grateful to you for making the effort

Aaron

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date May 30 2013 21:13:44

tijeretamiel

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

The 'Ole' at the end is pretty awesome. It's a pretty unplanned reaction with a element of surprise to how fantastic the guitar sounds. I imagine for a luthier that must be a pretty amazing feeling, watching a guitar which you've spent a long time building being played/used to make wonderful music.

The guitar sounded immense. Seriously immense.

I could have watched the dude play it for hours, days etc.

Get some more videos up!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 1 2013 20:40:51

Tom Blackshear

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to tijeretamiel)

I have to say that Aaron builds an esthetically beautiful guitar. I really like the rosette he designed, as seen on his website, and the plantilla is very comfortable for me to view as a work of art. Keep it up Aaron!

Also, I don't know where you came up with the guitar's head design but it's one of very few that I look at and actually see balance and beauty.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 1 2013 21:51:30

aarongreen

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to tijeretamiel)

Funny you should mention the Ole at the end, it was that which almost made me not put it up. And you are right I was sitting there getting blasted by the sound of that guitar thinking its just about the best work I've ever done and it's not even played in yet. What I am so happy with is the weight of the notes, huge fat notes with razor blades. The clarity of it's voice throughout the registers and the discipline of the harmonics give it that metallic bite when you push it but that is totally under the control of the player, it's a very sweet sounding guitar when you want that. Tonal flexibility has always been my biggest goal in any guitar I build, classical or flamenco.

And of course Juanito's playing is especially inspired these days, he's got a new trio with two masters in their own right and is gigging like crazy. I've known John since we were both in our early 20s and have always loved his playing. He's been a great friend and I am honored he chooses to use my guitars.

I hope none of this comes across as me patting myself on the back excessively. I am very happy with that guitar of course, but believe very strongly that when the stars align, they align. And when they don't......

Thank you for your kind words esp. Tom. I appreciate that very much. BTW my headstock crest is another variation on a theme of Manuel Ramirez. I didn't start out trying to do that but thats what it ended up being.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jun. 2 2013 12:29:41

Tom Blackshear

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RE: New Guitar Day (in reply to aarongreen)

You've married with this forum very nicely, in that you love to talk about guitar. This is certainly what we do and I applaud you for being so excited about it.

You, Stephen, and Anders are going places, and this is clearly seen by me and many others on this list.

I wish I was able, I would buy 10 of your guitars, and keep them for my sons inheritance. I had the chance to do this with Marcello Barbero but alas, I wasn't wise enough to see the potential collect-ability