estebanana -> RE: My own bracing pattern (Feb. 25 2011 1:01:11)
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quote: Nobody hits guitar that hard unless they are a drunk cowboy. ok, so what is jason mcguire? Jason is not a drunk and he's a city boy. He only breaks a guitar if he really tries, he's powerful, but he knows how far to go. Even for him 5mm is to thick. Hauser (and others who build like that) made his tops 3mm thick and that is considered heavy. Besides excellent players usually don't break guitars and if you are building them to withstand hard hitting you don't fundamentally understand the basic arte of flamenco anyway. Flamenco is not about killing guitars, over playing them or being brutal. If you don't get that you do not get flamenco or the ideas behind building a flamenco guitar. Breaking a flamenco guitar is like a basketball player intentionally shattering a glass backboard to show off. Some players are stronger than others and they do naturally come down harder, but those players are not common and they have to decide for themselves whether or not they are going to go through a bunch of guitars by intentionally playing too hard all the time. Look at all the great contemporary Spanish players, they play with conviction, depth and sometimes hard, but really what you see and hear is finesse and putting the gas pedal down all the way in a few well chosen places. Look at how powerful Chicuelo is, but he does not brutalize the guitar. Think back about how powerful Pedro Bacan was and if anyone could have broken guitars it was him, he played skillfully with power and finesse. All those guys know where the sweet spot is on the guitar and once you find that you don't have to play with brutal force to get the guitar to put out 100% And think of how unmusical it would be to play balls out all the time? It would be monotonous. Musicians don't do that, they moderate their force and bring it in at the right time. So not to sound too pedantic, but when I hear people over building a flamenco guitar to compensate for pounding and banging I question how much they understand flamenco.
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