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Lattice Braced Flamenco
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stephen hill
Posts: 300
Joined: Feb. 16 2004
From: La Herradura, Granada, Spain
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RE: Lattice Braced Flamenco (in reply to chapman_g)
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Ah good question! well, the classical guitar has a very different response to the flamenco, higher action, a search for sustain and power with clarity, and projection. I started this model out of curiosity and got nice results, not going with the smallman system but wanted to create something more natural, it worked and I got lots of orders, so I refined the system and now it is one of my standard models that I like. I do sometimes prefere the normal way of construction though.... but of course it doesnt work for flamencos at all IMO , at least the way I build. The flamenco guitar is a different beast entirely and we are looking for tradition not innovation.
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Date Jun. 6 2007 20:37:34
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Ricardo
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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC
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RE: Lattice Braced Flamenco (in reply to chapman_g)
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Luthier Music Corp in New York is offering Australian Maker John Price lattice braced, arched braceless back flamenco guitar, and Tony Acosta over there says they a quite remarkable instruments. Anybody played a lattice braced flamenco or a John Price flamenco guitar? Oh, the price tag is $8,000.00. Well as luck would have it I just tried such a guitar in Said shop on Tuesday. My feelings are the same as Errol's. Big fat classical sound, not flamenco at all. Very loud, but not the sound you would want for flamenco overall. I compared to Conde in the same shop, what a big difference. I was with a Gipsy singer, and I played one falseta por bulerias, and this guy Tony said "no no don't play loud, don't do golpes! People don't like it here". I said sorry, and did a tremolo, and the guy looked at me like "shhhhh!". The singer and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes. I did not bother telling him I bought a Conde from him ten years ago and had sent many customers his way. We just got up and walked out. Anyway, 8K might be fine for the work put in, but I think before you start experimenting with lattice bracing or whatever, first you need to have a built a successful flamenco instrument. Perhaps if J. Price has a blanca model, it would work better? But the negra was not working for my tastes. Ricardo
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Date Jun. 10 2007 18:59:47
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