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Moraito's guitar for sale
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Mark2
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Joined: Jul. 12 2004
From: San Francisco
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RE: Moraito's guitar for sale (in reply to Paul Magnussen)
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That's amazing-everyone should have access to a fellow like that. But being a left hander, he would be of limited value to me. It's strange not being able to evaluate many guitars as to playability and feel. I'm on the waiting list for what I hope is the greatest guitar I've ever owned or played. terms are all the money up front, no returns, because it's going to be left handed. Electric guitars not much better. I'd love to get a gibson jazz box, but lefty ones are rare and expensive, and not often available locally. Buying a guitar for 5k plus online is a huge act of faith, no matter the label. If I was right handed, I could pick from dozens of them. quote:
ORIGINAL: Paul Magnussen quote:
Well, to me me a guitar is just a guitar: the previous owner is not important Except to the extent that he might be expected to have chosen a good one. In London there’s an amateur classical guitarist called Paul Durham, well known to all the top luthiers in England and Spain. He has the most the most amazing ear for a good guitar that I’ve ever come across; but whichever he has, he eventually finds some fault with it, sells it and gets another one. So that if you wanted a great classical guitar, all you had to do was wait till he got tired of the current one, and then buy it. I’ve known him since I was a teenager, and almost every single classical guitar I’ve owned* (after the first beginner model) came from Paul. He was mentioned in Guitar International as having owned more top-name guitars than any other person http://www.guitarnz.info/html/nz_guitar_history.html *Except one Ramírez, which was a mistake. In the ’80s he sold me a Joaquín García that I’m totally happy with, so now I’m off the treadmill.
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Date Dec. 2 2014 16:35:44
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Morante
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RE: Moraito's guitar for sale (in reply to Andy Culpepper)
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Either way, it's still Moraito's guitar, probably his favorite one. You would own a big piece of flamenco history. I used to own a historic guitar: a beautiful peghead from Mario Melero de San Fernando. (Another ex Camaron Melero is in a glass case in the Peña de Camaron). This one used to belong to El Niño de los Rizos, who used it to accompany Caracol. A young gaditano tocaor, Oscar Lago, used to visit me, fell in love with the guitar and pestered me to sell it to him. Eventually , since he is a great friend and I thought that a historic Gaditana guitarra should be in the hands on a gaditano, I sold it to him for a token amount. He played it on stage for a while, then, for fear of damaging it or having it stolen, he bought a Conde. Now he comes to visit with the Melero and plays me a private concert.
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Date Dec. 3 2014 18:12:45
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