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Uhm ... I don't really agree, it's always a personal opinion.

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Well, you asked but why, if you already have the answer?

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Si invito a 3 de mis amigos, todos los mejores profesionales del flamenco, a tocar detrás de un telón y no supieras qué guitarra van a tocar (pero todos empiezan por tocar mi guitarra), ¿podrías decir que era la misma guitarra? ¿Te influiría si te dijera que dos de ellos interpretan habitualmente a Condes y el otro a Bernal? Si repitieran, tocando sus propias guitarras, ¿podrías identificarlos?

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ORIGINAL: Pali

It is a very interesting topic but a bit, let's say "misleading".

Let's see, for example, if I play three different guitars without you seeing them, would you be able to tell them apart? Could you tell me which one is for flamenco and which one is for classical?

I have seen Pepe Romero play classical with a white guitar made of cypresses with a German spruce top and play flamenco with a rosewood guitar and no one could tell which was one or the other ..... if you want to do the test ...

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If I invited 3 of my friends, all top flamenco professionals, to play behind a curtain and you did not know which guitar they are going to play, (but all of them begin by playing my guitar), could you tell that it was the same guitar? Would you be influenced if I had told you that two of them habitually play Condes and the other plays Bernal? If they repeated, playing their own guitars, could you identify them?

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Nooo, make no mistake about it, my answer is subjective, personal and as respectable as yours or that of any other colleague.

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actually, take that back. I'm pretty sure I could see the bright orange glow of a Conde even through a thick curtain.

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ORIGINAL: Pali

Some more...

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ORIGINAL: Ricardo

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ORIGINAL: Pali

It is a very interesting topic but a bit, let's say "misleading".

Let's see, for example, if I play three different guitars without you seeing them, would you be able to tell them apart? Could you tell me which one is for flamenco and which one is for classical?

I have seen Pepe Romero play classical with a white guitar made of cypresses with a German spruce top and play flamenco with a rosewood guitar and no one could tell which was one or the other ..... if you want to do the test ...

I have done this test on myself. No I absolutely could not tell the difference and they were MY guitars and I had just played each one moments before (had the recording engineer play them back at random). The sound is mainly in the fingers of the player.

However, as a TEACHER, the situation is very black and white. When a student arrives for first classes with a CLASSICAL guitar, there is only so much we can do. The quick save is to purchase a GOLPEADOR....depending on the neck angle and set up at the bridge this simple thing has potential to convert a classical guitar into a functional flamenco one. But upon first learned golpes and compas patterns, if the bridge is too high (10mm or more) there will be physical problems that guitars set up with low bridge (thanks to neck angle) won’t have. I always recommend students to invest in a PROPER flamenco guitar for lots of physical reasons. Of course there are flamenco designed guitars with bad set ups, but generally speaking, it is the SETUP that makes the distinction, and I am not talking about lowering the bone saddle only.

There are not many cypress classical guitars with peg heads unless they are pre Segovia old Torres era instruments. I consider Manuel Ramirez the originator of the proper “flamenco” guitar design as distinct from a classical guitar. So, looks, and set up are the main factors.

The bridge height on your rosetteless classical guitar pictured above is too high. Get ready for this fun like my Sanchis (9-10mm) gave me:

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¡Bonito hacha! Ella es tu favorita pero ¿por qué?

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ORIGINAL: Pali

That is the guitar that is being played in the video, note that it is classic but modified, the pickguards are only provisionally placed ...

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but dont recall the backstory as to why you were not playing your Condi?

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people who play never look at the instrument in a first contact

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If this were true, every classical guitar that ever passed into a flamenco player’s hands would be ruined. Of course we look at the thing first. Classical players are only concerned about action over fingerboard by left hand feel. Flamenco players are concerned about both action over the fingerboard, AND the height of the bridge together (left and right hand feel). That is why we eyeball it right away before playing (vast majority of flamenco players anyway).

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ORIGINAL: estebanana
The main difference between a classical guitar and flamenco guitar is that classical guitars sound crappy when you do a rasgueado on them.