PacoPaella -> RE: Classicals Flamencos and Negras (Nov. 29 2004 7:27:59)
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Exactly what guitar DOES Vicente play? I have read that the uses this american DeVoe guitar all over this forum, but now ran into this article: quote:
Vicente Amigo Vicente Amigo has a very special relationship with his Manuel Reyes guitar (Calle Armas, 4, E-140 Córdoba, 957, Spain). "I am very comfortable with her," he says. "I have been with her for years. Once I left her on the sofa, the phone rang and I picked it up and then sat on her and broke her. I took her to be repaired like one would take a sick child to the hospital. I got this guitar in C—rdoba. It is a fantastic guitar for flamenco. These guitars have a wonderful range of sound. And they are slender. It's not a big fat guitar; it's very sharp-sounding with a very quick response. It's made of cypress, which is the best wood. There are other flamenco guitars made of palo santo [the Spanish term for Indian rosewood, translated literally as "blessed wood"], but I like cypress much better. The ones that are made of palo santo are 'flamenca negras,' and the ones made of cypress are 'flamenca blancas.' I have an American flamenca negra guitar as well, made by Lester Devoe (Devoe Guitars, 680 Camino Roble, Nipomo, CA 93444; (805) 931-0313; ; www.maui.net/~rtadki/devoe.html), but I don't play it much because I am so used to the other one. Lester Devoe makes lots of palo santo guitars." Amigo strings his guitars with D'Addario strings. "They give me the best tension and the best control," he says. "I have tried other strings, but these are the best. For me, they are fantastic." —Bill Milkowski (taken from http://www.acguitar.com/issues/ag116/gear116.html) I know that the great artists get free instruments from all luthiers just so they can say "Xyz owns one of my guitars" but thats somewhat different from saying that this artist "plays" a certain guitar, because that would suggest its his "first" instrument...hm seems i went slightly off topic, sorry [:D]
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