Mohan -> RE: Cordoba Gypsy Kings flamenco-style guitar (Jun. 30 2010 16:37:05)
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Hi cla11, I have the 55-FCE model - I believe this has now been obsoleted and replaced with a cheaper, deeper (and bigger?) bodied Gypsy Kings model. As Ricardo says, the neck is a little thinner - by this I'm referring to the width at the nut being only 50mm rather than the more customary 52mm or even 53mm - I am assuming that Ricardo wasn't referring to the thickness of the neck - the 55-FCE has a fairly slim, but IMO quite comfortable neck. Ricardo is right in that it doesn't sound very flamenco, but it's definitely not a classical guitar sound either. I bought it for its slim body (less feedback issues) and the built in electronics/pickups and use it for playing rhythm to latin style tunes with a jazz group I play with, and as I have to switch between a jazz archtop guitar (45mm at the nut) and the 55-FCE between numbers, I'm quite happy that it has a 50mm neck width. I haven't tried the new version of the Gypsy Kings guitar, so you'll have to hope that someone else can give you more info on that. Good luck - remember half the fun in buying a guitar is in the looking and trying! Mohan.
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