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Joined: Jan. 29 2012
From: Seattle, Washington, USA
What makes a blanca?
I made a flamenca blanca for a client with dense neck wood. Mahogany for the heel block and some unusually dense cedro for the shaft that also has nice figure. It has a lot of sustain. I'm inclined to believe that the neck wood has more influence than the back and sides.
The guitar sounds good, so do you. Thanks for posting. Hard to judge about the sustain from a recording. But seems that the fundamental is strong and the attack/transient fast. Sustain gives colour but doesn't seem to detract. Not sure how it would sound with lots of rasgeo and fast notes e.g. por buleria? But if your customer is happy then that's all that matters.
I’m certainly not opposed to such fine pulgar playing ;)
HR
ps. I’ll bet not one in ten know the meaning of decimate.
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy, 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.
Another nice guitar Ethan, sounds great. Lucky client for sure.
HR
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I prefer my flamenco guitar spicy, 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.
ps. I’ll bet not one in ten know the meaning of decimate.
It means to reduce by one-tenth, and is it one of the most misused words in the English language. Kudos for pointing it out, HR.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East."
I think Ramzi was pointing out that I am using only a fraction of the flamenco guitar techniques. . It's all I can do because of the effects of arthritis, tendonitis, and neuropathy on my right hand. My index and middle fingers trigger and my index finger won't do rasgueados any more. I can still do picado. I can sort of do arpeggios but the triggering screws them up sometimes.
My comment wasn't directed at Ramzi, Ethan. I was just agreeing with Ernandez that "decimate" is used incorrectly most of the time to mean "completely obliterate."
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East."
ps. I’ll bet not one in ten know the meaning of decimate.
It means to reduce by one-tenth, and is it one of the most misused words in the English language. Kudos for pointing it out, HR.
Bill
Seeing this I had a déjà vu feeling and, lo and behold (below ):
It was a good refresher for me as I had started getting foggy again on the original (proper?) meaning. In contrast, Ramzi is consistent in using it in the "destroy/obliterate" sense, both before and after Piwin's comment
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