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Tom Blackshear -> RE: I want to interview luthiers! (Feb. 23 2009 3:08:39)
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ORIGINAL: HemeolaMan
I am currently engaged in a project about the effects of antonio de torres on the guitar and its construction as well as the effect on guitar music and repertoire.
I would love to interview any and all of you that have knowledge! or even just interview you on what parts of your building process are influenced by torres
Please help!
Thanks !
Well, it might be expedient to say that Torres affected practically all traditional style guitars from that era. Any guitar with fan braces is a good candidate. And fan brace placement is probably the most important theme to any guitar as far as the sound goes.
Perhaps less importantly was the actual construction process, or how Torres put the guitar together. Otherwise, most builders today would be using his actual technique for this purpose. Most technique lost its ability to stay in vogue, perhaps as it didn't necessarily make that much difference to keep it.
The modern school has a lot of technique and purpose for building guitars, and it stands to reason that we are progressing with the older traditional styles with more accute handling of the building process.
One thing to observe is that the back on many older models was sized differently from the top portion, and this leaves some evidence to suggest that many older builders left the tension out of the back and sides to resist having it act in an adverse manner against the top. This is one theory.
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