estebanana -> RE: Pepe Romero jr's flamenco's bracing (Jul. 17 2012 3:26:26)
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I know which one he's talking about. I still say call Pepe Jr. he has access to many many guitars that belong to his family and he probably has reasons for using that system. I bet he would explain it briefly in an email. I hesitate to say anything because I would not want to second guess Pepe Jr. - But guitars are funny creatures, what works for one person may not work for another person. And it's difficult often to explain why. Guitar making is super personal, in the same way that rasgueados are for players. Why does one player make a certain type of rasgueado sound different than another player? When you get into generalizing about what a brace system does, someone else can employ the same system or something close and work it to sound different. Think about how much variation in sound one an get by simply working the Torres basic pattern over and over. I'm of the opinion that you can make any brace system work if you mess with it enough. Others disagree. So there you have a difficulty even getting a consensus on a general unified field theory of brace systems. If Pepe has built that one several times he would be the one to say what it enables him to do. He may not want to reveal why or how, I would not if it were me, but he might say something that he heard or understood about the original guitar with that bracing he encountered that had qualities he liked. The other thing is maybe the way the copy is written in the ad is to get you excited about this mystical brace pattern. Which is also a good reason to go right to the source and ask how that original guitar spoke to him...? Guitar making is really putting together a lot of information, parts or systems once separated from the context of the whole may not be tangible information for forming an answer. One more thing, without hearing the guitar, judging or explaining by the description in the copy is nearly impossible. It's not a common brace system, it's rather an esoteric inversion of what we usually do, I could speculate, but I have not made one or many like that so I would rather ask someone who has. Saves time that way. [:D]
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