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Guest -> RE: Yamaha Flamenco (Aug. 6 2004 15:41:24)
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So Pat, Since I build myself, and since I´ve worked with guitars, I have to ask you this:
What is a handbuild guitar?????? Where is the limit? how many hands are allowed? how much machinery is accepted??? Who´s hands are we talking about? etc. All the Spanish factorys call their guitars handmade.
As a guitarmaker, doing more or less everything by hand, including a handmade rosette, inlayed directly in the soundboard, I do find it weired that someone uses a word like handmade on a Yamaha instrument.
I have nothing against Yamaha. Especially in the lower priceranges they make very good quality for money instruments. I´ve owned and played a steelstring and a nylon string guitars. Both exelent cheap guitars. I´ve played with Yamaha saxophones, clarinets, trumpets, Grand pianos, drum kits etc. And they were all good instruments, and some very expensive. A friend of mine lend me his Yamaha electric guitar. (The Carlos Santana, Les Paul clone) Very nice (but not a Les Paul!!).
BUT.... I´ve never ever seen a Yamaha instrument with personality. Everything perfect, down to the smallest details, but something special, the thing that inspires you? Nope...
I understand that 5k is a lot of money. But there are many very good guitarbuilders that would have made a very fine instrument for 3k......
I´m sorry if I sound like a grumpy old f###, but I had to write this.
I, of course hope that the guitar is a wonderfull instrument that will make you happy for years to come.
Anders
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