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Guest -> RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $4800 OBO (Aug. 19 2005 8:12:54)
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Anders, do you believe a flamenco guitar should have less sustain than a classical?
It's a difficult question, because, what is sustain. I can tell you what I try to build into my flamenco and classical guitar.
Flamenco: I like my guitars to have some kind of sustain. I personally don't like very short sustained dry sounding flamenco guitars without any harmonys. My goal is to make the trebles sing and have lots of high overtones. The basses I want to be deep and almost drum like. A big dry and dark boum that doesn't last to long. I find this to serve the music the best, and as I said before, a guitar is a tool that is supposed to serve a certain artform with certain esthetics. If you build a lot of sustain into a flamenco guitar, it will often rumble when you play it hard like many classicals. And when you accompany cante, it can be difficult to control a guitar with a lot of sustain.
Classical. I build more sustain into a classical, but there's a limit, where to much sustain makes the guitar loose it's liveliness, and this I don't like. My personal taste of classical guitars are the smaller lively spruce topped ones with tons of harmonics. I build big sounding cedar guitars as well and I understand what it is the costumer want, but it's not my personal taste.
I don't know if this is an answer, but at least I tried. Words are so useless when it comes to art.[8|]
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