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gerundino63
Posts: 1743
Joined: Jul. 11 2003
From: The Netherlands
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RE: Flamenco Santa is on his way... (in reply to Jon Boyes)
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Hi Jon Well, we celebrate here in Holland also an other feast, saint Nicolas,on the 5th of december, with precents too, christmas is celebrated not so very big, but too with gifts, and lucky me, my birthday is december 2, so I feel like a sjeik! I get a stringwinder, to make chancing your strings a lot easyer. A big musicbook standard, I give lessons, and the light standards are dropping down very easily, and my brother in law, who is here on the forum Paco E, Ed, gave me a very nice guitar cd, 'the 5 great guitars" it is a very nice dutch production, with all duch guitarists, exept one who is african. So, don't wake me up this winter! greetings, Peter.
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Date Dec. 3 2003 12:28:47
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Patrick
Posts: 1189
Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Portland, Oregon
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RE: Flamenco Santa is on his way... (in reply to Jon Boyes)
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Santa has been and gone as well. I just got a 1983 Ramirez Negra. The history of this guitar started with Eddie and his teacher Juan Serrano. Eddie sold it to Dimitri from the old FT site about three years ago. To be honest I have not been a great fan of negra’s. Everything I play is kind of hard edge, in your face type of stuff, that suite a blanca. Anyway, Dimitri has been telling me I should try out this negra. I certainly trust his judgment when he says it’s a good guitar. After all, the guy has owned most every guitar known to man! LOL He said the only two negra’s he really felt that sounded flamenco are this guitar and Eddie’s A25 Conde. We cut a deal and he sent it to me. I got it Saturday so I haven’t had a lot of time with it, but I am telling you this is a very unusual guitar, at least to me anyway. When I first played it, I wasn’t too impressed…kind of flat, so I put some Corum’s on it, which helped somewhat. The next day I did a mediocre recording of it and sent it to Dimitri. He basically said, “What have you done to my beautiful guitar, please send it back”! In my mind I was playing it like I play my blanca’s, just have at it, and what comes out comes out. Dimitri said I needed to back way off and take it easy with it. He said this guitar is totally backwards. If you want it louder, play it softer. If you want more hard edge tone, play it lighter, not harder. Now I don’t know about you, but that doesn’t make any sense to my old warn out brain, but here’s the upshot to the story. Last night I pulled it out and played it like Dimitri said. After about twenty minutes I had a big grin on my face, just shaking my head. Here I am hardly playing this thing and it’s louder then my Shelton blanca that will blow you out of the place. The secrets to this guitar as Dimitri said are “attack angles”. A slight adjustment of attack completely changes the tone. You can almost mold the tone with very subtle attack angles. I still can’t get the low E the way I want it, but I think I will get it in a day or two. Sorry to ramble. Has anyone run across this with a guitar or have I just been in the dark? You don’t need to answer that! Pat
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Date Dec. 9 2003 22:41:50
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