Anders Eliasson -> RE: My 7-string flamenca (Jan. 9 2010 23:37:31)
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Anders, I actually have to differ with you on that seven string bracing issue. You don't have to brace them differently. Use the bridge as the brace and make it longer and thinner in the wings. In my opinion and experience builders tend to over brace the guitars with more than six strings. They're afraid of the tension. It's not that big of an issue. Well I dont think that you understood my message or maybe I didnt put things very clear. Working the tension of the top, getting the right strength and balance in the bracing system and soundboard thickness is THE most important thing on a good guitar. It takes years to get a feeling of the right compromise. If I added a 7th string to the guitars that i make now, the guitar would 100% sure be to soft. And in order to get the very right compromise on a 7string, an 8 string or a 10 string guitar, I would either need to be lucky or to build quite a few of each of them. My knowledge from building 70+ flamenco guitars would of course help me, but very little. If you can build a 7 string guitar using your 6 string bracing system, then maybe your 6 string guitars are over braced Another thing is that a stiffer top would change the feel, response and voice of the guitar, so that the sound and response that I would produce would be different. I think its great that you guys experiment, but you are doing noone (this includes yourself) a favor by saying that its easy stuff, and just put a couple of extra strings on the thing and here we go. To balance out a flamenco guitar, getting the right feel, response, voice and sound is a very refined piece of work. Its far from just reading some books and making a box with a neck and some strings , so for now, I stay with 6 strings.
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