Ricardo -> RE: R.E. Brune 1893 Guitar Restoration (Nov. 16 2012 15:13:59)
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And I'm sure Santos was making cypress guitars with built-on maple tap plates back then, which pretty definitively shows that the guitars were meant to be used for flamenco. Which, after all, is really the definition of a "flamenco guitar", notwithstanding tonal differences that were also clearly being developed. my guess is all the guitars used by flamencos were destroyed by golpes until they starting putting wood tap plates....and they probably did that over top of damage at first...just my guess. I remember seeing a maple M. Ramirez from 1912 that had tap plate on it. guitar salon considered it a classical but it was obvious SOMEONE was using it for flamenco. Ramirez III says in his book he had a cypress torres 1862 that he implies was probably the type flamenco players gravitated to. He thinks that cypress was thought to be good luck vs the dark wood guitars that might be bad luck (gypsy superstitions). So his grandfather made a guitar (Jose I) for professionals and called it "tablao" guitar. the one he had in collection was 1918, maple back and sides... a bit bigger size but skinnier. M. Ramirez his brother made the same type of guitar too (he had 1900 version in collection), but decided to innovate and cater to the players more, and seems to feel the proper flamenco guitar model is based on his great uncle's design, not his grandfathers, and has one from 1911. (I assume it's either cypress or maple he doesn't say, also no mention of contributions of Santos or Esteso, employed by his Great Uncle). He said his dad (Jose II) was not so stubborn and adapted Manuels model, and he himself (jose III) pretty much sticks to the same general plan, (he liked the idea of tradition, but he innovated freely with classical guitars).
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