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TeenageFanclub

Posts: 2
Joined: Jul. 14 2020

New, Kent based

Hello all - I recently got back to my flamenco, having studied for quite a few years but quite a few years ago (in London) - so I'm rusty but have loved flamenco guitar for many years. I previously studied classical but found the range of repertoire available a bit restrictive and also found I tended to like the Spanish writers anyway, then I discovered Almoraima by accident one day - all change.
Been playing bass almost forever, and mainly play fretless these days - so there's a nail issue, I have them for the flamenco but need to take care when playing bass.
(Also have a tenor Uke).
Using an Esteve 8F at the moment, had a Conde A26 but sold it when it wasn't being used much. A string of basses... that's about it.
Keen to discover players and recordings - I really like Moraito, Paco Serrano, Pepe Habichuela, Juan Carmona... and quite a few others! I do think Moraito was a bit of a star though :)

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2020 17:37:35

Stu

Posts: 2535
Joined: Jan. 30 2007
From: London (the South of it), England

RE: New, Kent based (in reply to TeenageFanclub)

Hey! Welcome to the foro. Where are you in the UK?

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I do think Moraito was a bit of a star though

I think you're gonna get along fine here!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2020 18:01:38

TeenageFanclub

Posts: 2
Joined: Jul. 14 2020

RE: New, Kent based (in reply to Stu)

Thanks Stu - Sevenoaks, Kent

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2020 18:41:42

BarkellWH

Posts: 3458
Joined: Jul. 12 2009
From: Washington, DC

RE: New, Kent based (in reply to TeenageFanclub)

Welcome to the Foro.

Bill

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2020 19:57:40

Stu

Posts: 2535
Joined: Jan. 30 2007
From: London (the South of it), England

RE: New, Kent based (in reply to TeenageFanclub)

Oh it says in your title! Sorry.welcome! I'm se London. But from surrey and know Kent rather well.👌

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2020 22:03:57

johnnefastis

Posts: 631
Joined: Jan. 10 2012

RE: New, Kent based (in reply to TeenageFanclub)

Hi from further north up.. in Manchester.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 14 2020 23:47:37

mrstwinkle

Posts: 551
Joined: May 14 2017

RE: New, Kent based (in reply to TeenageFanclub)

Hi from Oxon.

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 15 2020 12:20:06

Piwin

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Joined: Feb. 9 2016

RE: New, Kent based (in reply to TeenageFanclub)

Welcome to the foro!

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 17 2020 21:06:41

xirdneH_imiJ

Posts: 1891
Joined: Dec. 2 2006
From: Budapest, now in Southampton

RE: New, Kent based (in reply to TeenageFanclub)

Welcome and greetings from Southampton!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 18 2020 2:42:09

ernandez R

Posts: 742
Joined: Mar. 25 2019
From: Alaska USA

RE: New, Kent based (in reply to TeenageFanclub)

Hello Kent,

Please forgive me if I cut and past what I just wrote to another new member just a moment ago.

Never been to to Kent, but I did come across from Calie on the ferry, kicked some dart ass in a pub in Cantabury intol the local boys were out of cash and wanted to kick mine... It was a long long time ago... I just recall the ATM spitting out so
Silver white twenty pound notes and looking at my lady and saying, I hope this is real money. Typical Yank.

Past-O-rama:

Welcolm to the Foro.

I'm fairly new here myself and new to Flamenco. I came here in a roundabout way by building guitars and there is an insta link on the bottom of this post. My dream is to build hoping to learn enough to make more someone will want to play.

Kinda funny, I always wanted to,play Flamenco since I was an early teen but I didn't know how to ask. I studied classical for a couple years then had a family. So here I am almost fifty five, my hands mostly ruined by good hard work, scratching strings like no one is listening and I didn't gave a damn if they were. I'm in it for the joy of making my flamenco, or rather as its joked about here on the Foro, my Flamigo ;)

Plenty of info if you dig around here and there.

A good verity of members from all over the world and plenty of good advise and many opinions. I joke that we are a well functioning disfunctional family.

I was recently whacked by a moose so I've spent the last three monthes on my back playing a good four hours a day, can't say I'm any better then when I started but during the first two monthes of pain pills I was a flamingo God! Now that I'm back on Tynolnal and nerv blockers am just another American with hit and miss compass and my rasgueo sounds like a nine cylender airplane moter hitting on only seven, or six?..

HR

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doesn't have to be fast,
should have some meat on the bones,
can be raw or well done,
as long as it doesn't sound like it's turning green on an elevator floor.

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REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Jul. 18 2020 3:00:49