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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR
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BarkellWH
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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (in reply to Tom Blackshear)
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Who does the shopping, your wife? My wife hasn't had a raise in over 5 years and yet the food items for our family still keep going up... The dollar loses value during inflationary periods. The inflation rate for April 2013 was just 1.10 percent, and for the past several years, with the Fed intervention, it has averaged less than 2 percent. This has been the longest period of sustained low inflation in my lifetime. (I am 70 years old.) Food and energy costs are, and always have been, very volatile and are generally not counted in the Core Consumer Price Index. While food is more expensive, overall, prices have remained steady, and the dollar most definitely is not "practically valueless," particularly when you consider its exchange rate with European and other currencies. Cheers, Bill
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Date May 18 2013 18:17:00
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Sr. Martins
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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (in reply to Arash)
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so you made a conde out of your guitar , thats more or less the difference of most sanchis and conde. condes tend to have stronger mids and less bassy basses than sanchis imo. Nah, I didnt get the stronger mids (although I would like that) but now my guitar doesnt sound as scooped as it sounded before, its way more balanced now and feels better to play, the response changed. quote:
If you want to make the bass deeper without causing it to boom, but deeper and tight, then sand a little off the top of the outside bass strut, making it a little thinner on top near the sound hole. Try for a long slight taper making it thinner in height, closer to the sound hole. Don't thin it too much as it will cause the 6th string to drop off too much. I think Iam not quite picturing that and maybe its wise not to go inside again... oh, the temptation I dont like bass at all unless Iam playing bass. You know, Iam a stratocaster guy, not a Les Pauler if that makes sense. The only thing I kind of miss is the "throaty mids" that Condes (and the Sanchis too) usually have. But right now Iam near that sound that VA gets when he plays a strong powerchord even with rasgueo, that open percussive sound that you also get from a strat with mild overdrive before the amp. I love the strats single coil spank, it sounds like "clank clank" which for me is the "plunkety plunk" of flamenco.
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Date May 18 2013 19:25:50
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Tom Blackshear
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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (in reply to Arash)
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ORIGINAL: Arash So, can i have guitar, designed by Conde, built by Sanchis, spat in to the soundhole by Anders with a Manuel Reyes Padre Label, then fine tuned by Blackshear, finally signed by Paco for $3500 including case and free shipping or not? I just got a phone call from my sales agent and he recently spoke with Juan Miguel Gonzales http://www.juanmiguelgonzalez.com/en/guitars.html who builds for Tomatito, the flamenco guitarist. Sr. Gonzales told my sales agent that he tunes his guitars outside and inside, and after they are built and finished, he goes through the sound hole and tweaks the fan braces to balance out the voicing and articulation, and that this is a well kept secret among the great Spanish builders who would care not to have their fine tuning techniques known. There you have it folks, this is my confirmation, and my sales agent is suggesting that I work more for a fee rather than give it away. Here is a gallery including a picture of Tomatito playing one of his guitars http://www.juanmiguelgonzalez.com/en/gallery.html It was mentioned that Sr. Gonzales also makes 12,000 euro guitars.
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Date May 18 2013 22:25:19
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BarkellWH
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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (in reply to Tom Blackshear)
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So, the deal is to teach this technique to Manuel and have him fine tune the guitars in his factory, with my name and label to advertise his product. I have no idea what your sales agent may have negotiated with Manuel Adalid, but I do know something about Manuel. He is the chief luthier at the House of Esteve. He also produces his own line of flamenco guitars known as the "Viviana." I bought a Manuel Adalid Viviana blanca from Zavaleta's la Casa de Guitarras in Tucson, Arizona in 2009, and it has a great sound. Believe me, whatever deal he may cut with you, Manuel Adalid is well-enough known for his abilities as a luthier and for his fine guitars that he has no need to use anyone's name and label but his own to advertise his product. Cheers, Bill
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Date Aug. 12 2013 16:41:11
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