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RE: Faucher's Videos of Gerardo Núñez (in reply to machopicasso)
These are from his private collection so since he loaded these excerpts himself that is all he wanted to share. You could write to him and ask him if he has digitized them all, maybe he would share with you?
RE: Faucher's Videos of Gerardo Núñez (in reply to Ricardo)
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These are from his private collection so since he loaded these excerpts himself that is all he wanted to share. You could write to him and ask him if he has digitized them all, maybe he would share with you?
I may give that a shot once things settle down a bit. I'll report back if I do.
Any idea why Faucher didn't transcribe Vol. 2 of "El Arte de Gerardo Núñez"?
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From: Washington DC
RE: Faucher's Videos of Gerardo Núñez (in reply to machopicasso)
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Any idea why Faucher didn't transcribe Vol. 2 of "El Arte de Gerardo Núñez"?
My feeling was Gerardo's wife was always very strongly against filming at the curso, and this extended to Gerardo's playing career. I remember a story where she asked to see someone's high 8 camera that had filmed Gerardo and she opened the thing for the tape then pulled it out and unrolled/destroyed it.
So as you can imagine, the fact Faucher filmed him in the hotel there to make a book for sale was problematic. When royalties started dripping in super slowly Gerardo (or his wife?) accused him of not being honest and a large part of the community of guitar players (knowing Faucher used to sell hand written tabs under the table anyway) chose to blackball Faucher (in their own way). The result was at the time Faucher was trying to do these legit publications (Tomatito Melchor, N. Ricardo etc.) the Paco de Lucia book failed to manifest via Paco's family estate (Ramon wanting to start controlling the brand around the same time the Carrillo guitars appeared and the "Conde" gravina was asked to stop marketing his model).
So this guy Jorge Berges was asked to do the Paco book, also a student of Nuñez, so he was asked to do that vol. 2 as well at the same time the first Paco books appeared on the market. It was a shame for two reasons:
1.Flamencos did not understand how royalties work and what the true market for partituras is.
2. Faucher does exceptional work and Berges versions are horrible.
Another reason for drama with Faucher was because he drops clues to catch plagiarizing and caught Encuentro in the act (I can confirm a copied mistake of Nuñez buleria for example) and Faucher called them in Switzerland to cuss them out. So he got a bad reputation that spread throughout the community. Oh well. At least for a brief time Nuñez could sell his transcription books at the curso and keep all the money (vol. 2 only). But to say it has problems is an understatement.
RE: Faucher's Videos of Gerardo Núñez (in reply to machopicasso)
Appreciate the history regarding all of this, Ricardo. The whole debacle with Faucher, the later falling out, Berges, etc, is just so much unnecessary drama. I don't know of any other instance of a transcriptionist -- especially one as excellent as Faucher -- choosing to put intentional errors into their scores to weed out plagiarism. I know that any decent player will be able to catch them, but the whole premise is kind of lame and just speaks to some larger systemic problems, both with respect to the possibility of plagiarism (which really exists anywhere and you can't *really* protect against it, especially nowadays) and the lack of business acumen with respect to evaluating the market for sheet music. Especially in the flamenco world where so much is done by rote anyway.
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