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BarkellWH
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 RE: manuel reyes hijo flamenco guitars (in reply to bernd)
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I state the market doesn´t support it. In relation to 30.000 $ I would prefer buying a Santos Hernández or Marcelo Barbero.
If a Manuel Reyes Sr. guitar can be sold for $30K, the only conclusion that can be drawn is the market supports it, regardless of your personal preferences. Guitars, like any other commodity, go for what the market will bear, whether one agrees with it or not.
Bill
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Date Sep. 25 2014 1:09:10
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Tom Blackshear
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RE: manuel reyes hijo flamenco guitars (in reply to BarkellWH)
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If a Manuel Reyes Sr. guitar can be sold for $30K, the only conclusion that can be drawn is the market supports it, regardless of your personal preferences. Guitars, like any other commodity, go for what the market will bear, whether one agrees with it or not.
This is no phenomenon but a calculated work in progress that happens over a long period of time for many of us. But gone are the days that a builder working in his small shop had anything to do with modern advertising and popular players and music companies pushing product regardless of performance quality.
Any photo artist can make a $300 guitar look like a million dollars due to the vast ignorance of the buying public, and the guitar's foot deep appearance with a lacquer finish.
And let's face it, the modern scientific approach of the American luthier has changed the dynamic of the Spanish guitar to some extent.
With the modern scientific approach, this has brought the guitar to another level for the American luthier. Now, with new technology we can take a closer look at the work of the old Spanish masters and gain insight into what, at least according to some, were closely guarded fine-tuning secrets.
Whether by using this technology, we can actually find the ultimate value of these secrets remains to be seen. But one thing is certain: It has widened the supply side of the market with some remarkable sounding guitars.
But I will still give credit to the traditional Spanish builder for setting the level of excellence for the guitar. And because Spain has given us so many master craftsmen, it is to be accepted that many of their instruments have collector value.
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