HemeolaMan -> RE: Ramon Montoya's guitar (Feb. 14 2013 3:49:46)
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I have had the great privelige of seeing many of the worlds most famous violins in person, open, on the bench, being repaired. I doubt that anyone would believe that a stradivari or a guarneri violin deserves to be stuffed in a glass case in a museum. Literally, before my eyes, 4 decades of guarneri violins all open. I got to compare purfling, varnishes, thicknesses, materials and tool work... Only because these instruments were being checked up and tidied to go back out and be played in the world's premier orchestras by the world's foremost absolute ****ing assassins of the violin. why should a guitar of excrutiatingly limited interest to incredibly few people be stuffed in a box and forgotten in a museum archive. Do you know what people would say at the art isntitute if they saw this guitar? they'd say "who the **** is ramon montoya? did he write classical gas? malaguena? OH LOOK SUITS OF ARMOR!!! **** YEAH!!" Bruné is the man to keep this guitar playable, happy and healthy. It will live a long time in his care. And because it is playable and in prime condition, luthiers can come and study it to try and solve the mysteries of guitar construction. Because they can just call richard up and swing by one of the most densely populated cities in America with the nations largest international airport etc etc..top 3 orchestras, and world's Stradivarius society violin restorer (the only one allowed to restore these historic violins)... anyway, because you can easily swing by chicago and hop a 20 minute train ride that literally lands you 40 feet from Bruné's shop without reservation, special passes, or any **** that would be involved in a museum archive visit at the Louvre, a guitar can be studied by the modest men of lutherie. Doit, you want inexpensive, handmade, high quality guitars that sound like beasts? then luthiers need to go play and feel and measure and learn instruments from history that still work. They need to capture the essence of these still beating hearts. That takes time and patience. Did I also mention that Bruné is one of the foremost guitar builders on planet earth and that he is respected globally as the authority on guitars??? no? Did you not know that he restores and inspects Torres guitars? Did you know that he has a library of literature on guitars that would knock your socks off? You can come read those things too if you'd like. I myself have held and experienced a torres guitar in this very shop. In the middle of nowhere, one of the 3 largest cities in the world's most well known countries. Chicago. Google it Mother **** er.
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