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No need to have a debate about it. It’s just a matter of fact that many in Spain refer to “pulsacion” as something different than action. We may decide to simplify the concept or to make an effort in understanding what there’s behind. Let stick to the video here above: some guitars offer an ideal response to your right hand while other guitars don’t. The same set up (action or string tension or even the whole geometry) do not make two guitars equally responsive/comfortable. Even guitars made by the same maker are not the same as wood is uneven in density by nature ( a bulb inside your guitar may show darker areas inspite the same thickness). I suppose is common experience that some guitars play better with higher/lower action or different string tension as we try to set up guitars to balance their natural equilibrium towards our preference as players. A skilled player just adapt and doesn’t care, while a luthier has a different insight about that, as is searching about the idea point of balance. No need to go further.
ORIGINAL: Ricardo She is speaking Spanish, her SPANISH description of how to deal with pulsación is precisely what in English we say is SETTING THE ACTION. She is not only daughter of a famous Luthier but one herself.
I haven’t even searched for the quote, but I recall Amalia writing that she had built ONE guitar, not many. I don’t think this makes her a luthier.
My Abel Garcia and Romanillos classicals have the same strings, the same scale length, the same action at the 12th fret and the same bridge saddle height. The Romanillos requires a far more precise and somewhat lighter right hand touch than the Garcia, to get its best tone. Both are great guitars. I conclude that some factor or factors other than action contribute to the marked disparity in feel (pulsación) between these two instruments.
From the Diccionario de la Real Academia de la Lengua Española
Pulsación — accion de pulsar
Pulsar. 2.Tocar, palpar o percibir algo con la mano o con las yemas de los dedos.
In this context, “To perceive something with the tips of the fingers.”
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