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Why is everyone so fussy????
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flamencositar
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RE: Why is everyone so fussy???? (in reply to Leñador)
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I think it's because as Eddie Van Halen put it, '...looking for that brown sound.' Ergo, someone hears Paco, Vincente, etc.. and love that sound and become fixated on replicating that sound. Hence the fuss about strings, string life, when to change them, humidity, wood types, hand position, etc.. To put it simply: It's a lot easier to mimic another player's sound as oppose to finding your own, which requires years of pain and suffering.
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Date Oct. 3 2013 18:36:10
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mark indigo
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RE: Why is everyone so fussy???? (in reply to Leñador)
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Experimenting with a million different strings. A few months ago I bought a new guitar second hand with a great sound. The vendor didn't know what the strings were, and had hardly played it, so hadn't changed them himself. When the strings that were on when I got it needed changing I put on a set I had handy. Didn't sound so good. Damn! I had to get back to that sound that made me buy it! So I had to experiment with about a dozen sets before I was satisfied I had the right set. The post I put on here with a picture of the trebles narrowed it down a lot, but I had already tried a bunch of sets by then. Now I have found the set I think is best that's it, experiment over. quote:
Once every couple of months I ..... give it a quick once over with a cloth I bought one of those guitar cloths too for the first time, seeing as this was a proper mega-bucks guitar. My first three flamenco guitars never got a wipe with a cloth! I think what you see on the foro is everytime someone wonders about strings or humidity they post, and you see a whole lot of posts about strings and cloths and humidity etc. but that doesn't mean that everyone is obsessing about that all the time. It's like the news, all you see is the bad news, crime, accidents, disasters, makes you think that is all there is out there. You never hear about the millions of people who went to the store and cooked a nice dinner and watched a bit of TV.
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Date Oct. 3 2013 20:42:10
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