Tom Blackshear -> RE: Conde made by R. S. Carpio (May 9 2019 21:22:35)
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Condes are and were sub-contracted by different makers of fine instruments, and for this reason, not all of the Conde brand is going to compare with its originals. While I was in Madrid in 1965 I met with Faustino Conde at his city store and he showed me a beautifully made Sobrinos de Domingo Esteso flamenco blanca for $350 US dollars. In retrospect, I should have bought it but I was on a fixed income at the time so I bought a 1965 Jose Ramirez 1-A for 200 Us dollars, and to tell the truth, it was a better guitar than the Conde. Does this mean that I made the right choice? Most likely if I had bought the Conde and painfully played in the spruce top over a period of years, maybe months, I would have had a better collectable [:D]
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