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burnsbyrne -> Only one guitar? (Aug. 5 2013 14:10:42)

I've been wondering if anybody on the Foro,like me, owns only one guitar?
Mine is a 1992 Ricardo Sanchis 2AF blanca with a cedar top. I have never felt the need to get another one.



SLJ -> RE: Only one guitar? (Aug. 5 2013 14:55:02)

any type instrument Ive ever owned, I had a least 2, one for play at home, one as a beater.
even being a newb to this music,, I have 3 nylon string, a 100$ classical to keep at work,, a yam 147 and a cordoba c5. unfortunately no "flamenco" guitars yet.
I missed exchanging the c5 by 5 days and 2bill at GC [:(] for a Kremona Flamenco guitar



xirdneH_imiJ -> RE: Only one guitar? (Aug. 5 2013 15:05:34)

an old thread with the same topic was dug up recently...
it seems most people own/can afford one instrument, maybe buy beaters for cheap, but also most of us would like to own more than one...i sure would love to have a good negra too :)
(not counting the classical i never play anymore, and the two electrics, one of which is actively played at rehearsals and concerts...never at home though)



Erik van Goch -> RE: Only one guitar? (Aug. 5 2013 15:41:16)

I owned (or at least played) only 1 guitar for years. Between the age of 9-11 i played a cheap beginners guitar. Around the age of 11/12 i asked a new guitar from Santa Claus and received an extremely hand friendly (early 70ties) Ibanez Andora (handpicked by my father who happened to be an expert). Since i didn't play that other guitar ever since i sold it one day to a friend of my brother. Later i regretted that sell since i would have loved to frame the sound hole/rosette as a memento to my wild years..... i used to scratch an easy to reach part of the open side of the rosette with my thump nail and as a result a small and pointy gab was formed into the wood. When that gab became equally deep as my nail was long (and as a result could not become any deeper) i continued my strange habit on a virgin part of the rosette/sound hole. After 2 years of nail scratching/digging the inner side of the rosette was covered with pointy teeth and as a result the sound hole looked very much like an opened shark beak.

Over the years i picked up several other instruments but none of them were guitars ( bass, banjo, mandoline, bouzouki, citar, charango flute and violin). In 1984 (after owning just 1 guitar for apr. 13 years) i bought myself a second guitar, a beautiful 12 string Bozo. In 1985 i entered Paco Peñas school of flamenco guitar and was given a beautiful Ramirez by my father. Still i continued playing my ibanez quite a lot (still do). When i graduated in 1993 my father gave me his beautiful Conde as well. Last year i bought myself another (crap) bozo ..... so now i own 5 guitars (and an old one from before 1900 just for historic interest).



sig -> RE: Only one guitar? (Aug. 6 2013 17:21:17)

At one time I had 4 flamenco guitars, a Rodriguez C3, a Burguet 1F, an old Juan Orozco cedar top blanca and my Culpepper. I sold all of them and only retained my Culpepper and frankly haven't missed the others. I liked diff aspects of each of my instruments but with the Culpepper I like just about everything about it. I do find that I'm not as big a fan of the french polish finish as I thought I would be. It is much more fragile than laquer especially with a cedar top which is a bit softer than spruce. I find that I was playing my Culpepper all the time so the others, especially the two beaters were just not getting played. I still own a Seagull steel stringer which I occasionally play some slide blues on when the mood strikes :)

One day I would like to have a Negra but like most people, it all depends on the finances...
Sig--



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