Ricardo -> RE: Tell Me Of Your Phantom Pain (Oct. 31 2012 13:04:07)
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ORIGINAL: Ruphus I have three of these. Considering the main one, I have just been trying to motivate a luthier to try and build a very certain kind of guitar. Naively, as if you could precisely convey by words how specifics shall be. The story of my phantom pain goes like this: Maybe 1979 or -80 or so in a town near Frankfurt / Germany. I´m having a stay at my sister´s place for a month or two. She has a busty blonde neighbour of around 30 years who is any late teenagers dream. So beautiful all around from toe to top, so friendly, so wonderful and plain incredible sexbomb. She has a guitar hanging on her living rooms wall. Appearing like deco, I didn´texpect much when I asked her whether she would lend it out to me, as I had not brought my own with me. This guitar is sonor and mellow in a yet very defined way, and every single note instead of "spling" or "splung" goes like "Spain". So I´m blaring along and no matter, what you hear is "Spain, Spain, Spain, Spain, Spain". There I am with no clue of anything whatsoever, but the minute that I take that thing in my hands, the living room seems to morph into an olive grove with some romantic crack somewhere sitting among the trees and playing along, making the olives drip. Just its pulsation alone would allow me much better playing, let alone the inspiration through that terrific sound stage. If you had just bumped into it accidentally, out would had come a song. Of such a vibe it was. And the beautiful timbre fills the whole apartment down to the last room. It also must be heard in the neighbour´s place. A look on the label disappoints me in a way, as it reads to my foolish eyes as if Germans wanted to sound Spanish. I assume it must have read like "Conde Hermanos" or possibly like some of the "Hernandez" varieties. After a while the neighbour asks me to paint her balkony and quite obviously tries to tempt me. I am torn apart between overbording desire and my strict precept to never interfere into a relationship ( she has a life partner ), and so my constant, ever more rebutting appearing refusal to come in for a coffee offends her in the end ( breaking my own heart ). A day or two afterwards she asks my sister for the guitar. I bring it back then with lots of thank you, yet, with her remaining distant. I ask her whether she could be selling the instrument. She first replies with a rigorous no, after my plea reluctantly agrees however into double of what she purchased the guitar for in Spain, which was the equivalent of 350 DM. ( I remember how the owner raised her eyebrows saying: "It´s a .... [ put in famous maker]!") I am broke however, my sister refuses to what she thinks would be meaning to spoil me, and I hence feel too filthy to call up anyone else and ask for a temporary loan of 700 DM. ( Been stressing on principle to omitt lendings from others ever since.) Living on ridiculous budget yet with a BMW feels undue enough already, and with my sister giving me a feeling of simply being a careless person ... So, I decide to better pass and `buy a guitar like that´ later on. Possibly even during a trip to Spain. Little did I know. Very little. Over 30 years later, and I am of the impression that special guitars like that are as rare as hen's teeth. Aside of that they would cost you an arm and a leg now, if you ever found one. I have been hunting this phantom of a guitar for so long now, with nothing coming even close. And over the past two days frisking sound samples of exclusive guitars to give the luthier an idea, nothing ressembles; eventhough some are truly stellar sounding, and a very small number even of the romantic type. I find that over past years the pristine section ( Hauser hall as I call it) has blossomed greatly with stunning guitars. But the top shelf romantic shade seems to be disappearing. Especially what could be sounding romantically Spanish. Besides, I have been hunting for that guitar as a classical one, but as it comes to mind this very minute ... could actually be it had a golpeador ... I am uncertain. I just had no clue about builds and makers. Anyway, all that vain searching and expense in the meantime ... Had I just listened to my guts ( instead of to a hypocritical jelouse sister ) and raised those 700 DM back then. An amount paid back easily within a handful of months then to have provided a sublime guitar since decades by now. I know: regrets are no good; but it is such a pity, man. Just can´t creep over the phantom pain. >pulls his hair< I know, some here have similar longings while looking back to a special point in time. Ruphus She was busty, blonde, and NICE????
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