Ruphus -> RE: Convention and Symmetry (Sep. 2 2013 19:43:10)
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Hi Ethan, Thank you for confirming structural sense of angling! :O) That top is ancient kauri. ( A pity that the rosette takes a bit away from it. Colour matched, but too slim and vivid.) Contemporary kauri seems to make for a rich sounding top that sort of combines characteristics of both spruce and cedar. I have no idea about how ancient kauri may do for soundboard, however. Possibly surprising though, like it does for B&S. ( Appearing kind of granular and rather lifeless in the hands of the builder at first, but ressembling myrtle performance wise in the end; so I have been told.) AK however needs to be sized a bit thicker for same statics like with use of common pine. While about woods, I eyed your handsome maple blanca in the other thread. I have had really nice experience with maple on a classical and on an acoustic bass. On the bass the hard version of maple was used, and it left me flabbergasted when I made a small hole into the tail with a hand drill for the strap holder. Never had experienced any wood that hard before! Just ten days ago I came over pictures featuring splattered maple, BTW. Have you seen such before? Really crazy grain, isn´t it? Hi Ricardo, That is what I am exactly about. How one´s eyes get to perceive something because of unrelated preconditions. Now you like what ought to be ugly in accordance of general guidelines of design and proportion, and in the contrary feel something to be ugly that corresponds to the whole of shape. It´s kind like with religion. Followers will insist on the `one and only way´, unaware of the coincidence of their provenance. Had they very banally been born under other geographical terms they would now be swearing just as intensively on something completely else as votiv. How do you think would traditonal flamencas be looking like if gitanos had been big landowners? How could your named Barbero now be looking like? I agree, and am just as glad as you that it actually came to be the sound typically coming from the cypress / spruce combo. More even, I never got the negra thingy. May PdL love it, I for one prefer the cigar box charme of nice flappy blancas. But if flamenco stemmed from rich people who had made luthiers use expensive exotic materials the typical sound of a flamenco guitar could be slightly different today. Probably the soundstage would actually show much less uniform than it is today. As the manifold of materials might have inspired builders for diverse timbres, leaving only in common an edgy note required for a cutting through gigs. And you could be stating like: "What´s that ugly square there? I try to imagine in my mind...sorry, still ugly." I know, pointing out the arbitrariness won´t change your view; as you will proudly stick to the good sounding examples that founded your aesthetical perception of visuals in the same time. And that is alright. It is like with caviar. It will usually not appeal to who has no preceding experience with it. ... Guess what I am trying to say is that I do well understand how the convention of shape comes about. And yet my eyes tell me that tapered wings would fit the overall appearance so much better; and the structural effects of it should not be exactly detrimental either. So, to the purgatory ( <- Attention, poster cought in the act with taking from dictionary!) with you conquistadores! hehehe Ruphus
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