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Richard Jernigan
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From: Austin, Texas USA
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 RE: Most aggressive flamenco guitar? (in reply to estebanana)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana
I'm not doubting your account, but I must inquire in the interests of my research where you had the Fernandez' authenticated? To my knowledge, correct me if I am in error, but Brunoffskavich of Helsinki is the only shop in the world with the expertise to authenticate with absolute certainty.
I would be very interested to hear the in depth the provenancial account behind your Santos Fernandez acquisitions. Can you also speak about the rumors that the early Pre War Santos Fernandez guitars were or are stored in perpetuity in the Jerningan Suites Conservation Lab?
Two of the instruments in question were indeed authenticated by Brunoffskavich, but the attention of the White House was attracted by the appraisal of the third by Alex Jones, a world renowned radio commentator who lives here in Austin.
Jones does not make an effort to play up his guitar expertise. Indeed he attributes it to occult revelations from space aliens. He noticed that the instrument in question was strung up with gut strings, since it was a pre-WW II model.
Upon further consultation with his sources, Jones learned that the strings were not made of sheep gut. Rather they were made from the intestines of a horse ridden during the conquest of Kievan Russia by Genghis Khan's grandson Subotai. This is believed to be a significant source of the guitar's aggressiveness.
The Administration found this information highly significant, and I was approached by a portly gentleman with a thick Slavic accent, saying he was a White House agent. Jones vouched for him.
I was unwilling to sell the gut-strung instrument, but under considerable pressure from the White House agent I offered the other two. The deal went through when Jones was able to secure two further sets of authentic Subotai strings.
I understand that before setting out for Moscow, Tillerson had a couple of lessons with John Kerry, who taught him to play the theme from Lecuona's Malagueña.
RNJ
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Date Apr. 11 2017 22:32:48
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Erik van Goch
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Joined: Jul. 17 2012
From: Netherlands
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RE: Most aggressive flamenco guitar? (in reply to estebanana)
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ORIGINAL: estebanana
the truth is that playing Santos Fernandez guitar for a few days makes your nails harder than the talons of a hawk.
Quite recently my guitar collection was expanded with some of the guitars that used to belong to of my late father and strange things happened since. For example, the fluffy chicken chicks i bought last weekend to pimp up the upcoming easter mysteriously transformed into fierce raptors in just a couple of days. Obviously i went back to the seller to complain they sold me raptor- rather then chicken chicks but they showed pretty convincing evidence that the chicks sold to me were full blood chickens and nothing but chickens.
In the light of all that turned up about the Santos Fernandez guitars quite recently (and especially above quote) i seriously start to wonder if one of my fathers guitars (being part of my collection for about 5 months now) might actually be a Santos Fernandez. As far as i can tell 2 of them are suspect, the first one is an odd looking guitar i found/bought on a street marked 30 years ago for a tenner and kept at my parents house so far, but that one is probably late 19th/early 20th century so seems to predate the SF guitars, and the other one is from about the period of WWII and was actually what my father believed to be his first classical guitar or actually his second one because the first one, which most likely was an original Torres, turned out to be unplayable and unfortunately had to be sold to be able to buy a more playable instrument which happens to be the guitar i suspect to be a SF. SF or not, right now i suffer some pretty sleeples nights, not so much about the idea of owning a SF (or not) but because those bloody chicken chicks turning into owls look at me with vicious eyes/claws (the one below, identified by a flabbergasted expert as a Siberian Eagle Owl, has claws that are at least as big as my hands).
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