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As promised many moons ago, here are some pictures of this practise guitar I made for the maestro Paco de Lucia. As you can see, its for practising left and righthand, not for concert use! When it was given to him he exclaimed ' es una maravilla!' before going out on stage at the malaga plaza de toros in front of thousands of people.
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RE: Paco de lucia's Hill practise guitar (in reply to stephen hill)
tricky work! gracias Paco, por enriquecer mi vida con tu musica y arte sobresaliente que han cambiado mi vida. un abrazo fuerte de todo corazon- jingle
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RE: Paco de lucia's Hill practise guitar (in reply to Stephen Rees)
Thanks Stephen, it was certainly a wierd feeling making it for him... I only just made it tho as I was moving workshop at the time and got caught in a massive storm, lost my scooter and some vital tools I was bring down the day before the concert and the handing over, I had to improvise and worked till 2am as half the day I was battling with mudslides and the like!!! some of my tools are now in the med after being swept down.
RE: Paco de lucia's Hill practise guitar (in reply to Escribano)
the lower corner sits on the knee, quite comfy really, or you can hold it to your chest, or play it in the bathtub... anywhere really, thats the beauty.
RE: Paco de lucia's Hill practise guitar (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
you guessed it Anders, best to mute the strings with light sponge or one of pacos socks.. the frets are set to 660mm and then half scale. Its funny that it sounds unusually tunefull however even with the incorrect setting.... its meant to just exercise the hands. I would make a full scale one next with cutoff head and body but it wouldnt fit in the suitcase so well..
RE: Paco de lucia's Hill practise guitar (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
I always use a capo at the 3rd or 4th fret. The rest of the fretboard is wasted on me. I just don't like the sound! Though I admire those guitarists who can produce a great sound on lower frets or even the NUT goddammit.
If I ever win the Lottery, I'm gonna have a guitar built that omits the first 3 or 4 frets!
Anything else is for practise guitars, not playing guitars IMO.
cheers,
Ron
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RE: Paco de lucia's Hill practise guitar (in reply to stephen hill)
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I always use a capo at the 3rd or 4th fret. The rest of the fretboard is wasted on me. I just don't like the sound! Though I admire those guitarists who can produce a great sound on lower frets or even the NUT goddammit.
If I ever win the Lottery, I'm gonna have a guitar built that omits the first 3 or 4 frets!
Anything else is for practise guitars, not playing guitars IMO.
Ron if you play with male singers you´ll be in trouble. They often sing Tangos, Solea por bulerias and other "por medio" stuff withhout cejilla or at the first fret.
I practice more than 50% of the time without cejilla, because if not, I cant play por medio with a male singer because the guitar simply seems to be to big. I´ve learned to like the sound anyway.
RE: Paco de lucia's Hill practise guitar (in reply to Doitsujin)
paco saw the one jingle had, and wanted one so jingle said he would get a contact, and then hey presto jingle asked me to make it for paco as a present. its cool for wierd flamenco jazz yes anders!
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RE: Paco de lucia's Hill practise guitar (in reply to stephen hill)
You could build in a pickup and plug it in the amplifier for weird flamenco jazz. But then again it wouldn't be really suitable for playing in the bathtub...
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How do you hold it, pushed against the chest? 
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