|
Richard Jernigan -> RE: Getting a guitar from Granada (Oct. 1 2011 18:57:47)
|
quote:
ORIGINAL: Anders Eliasson
Take your time and dont buy if you dont find something you really like. Many have gone to Spain just to find out that there werent any guitars ready. They had to be ordered.
Indeed. I must have visited Bernabe's shop in Arcos de Cuchilleros, just off the Plaza Mayor in Madrid, a half dozen times over the years. They never had a concert instrument in the shop. I did buy a quite decent student model classical off the wall.
On one visit, Paulino Jr. offered me a guitar with an experimental bracing pattern. I played a chromatic scale. The note "A", no matter which string, which fret, was considerably louder than all the rest. I played a few A's, and handed the guitar back to Paulino Jr. without comment. He smiled and put the instrument back in its case, also without comment.
When I told the story to Manuel Contreras, Sr. He laughed. "Bernabe, Manzanero and I were at the music fair in Frankfurt," said Contreras.
"Bernabe announced that over the course of his career he had made 20 experimental guitars, to explore the possibilities of the instrument. He still had all of them." Bernabe was a big man, and could be a bit assertive at times.
Contreras continued, "I said, 'That's too bad'. Bernabe asked, 'Why do you say that?' I said, I, too have made 20 experimental guitars, but I have managed to sell all of them."
RNJ
|
|
|
|
