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Richard Jernigan -> RE: Show us your Flamenco guitars !! (Sep. 27 2014 18:09:03)
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ORIGINAL: hopkinWFG
true Ruphus thanks for the concern and encouragement ! i agree i been too over concern over my first purchase but just to make sure my first as it will be a keeper as my quest to learning flamenco goes...
It might be a keeper, but it's quite likely it won't be your last guitar. My wife gave me a new '67 1a Ramirez blanca when we got married. It was the first good guitar I ever had. In fact, I would say it's a great guitar.
But my favorite now is quite a different guitar. It is louder, more percussive, more suited to my taste. The Ramirez taught me a great deal. One of the things it taught me was that I now prefer a different guitar.
I recently traveled away from home for over a month. I took the Ramirez with me. It took me a few days playing it to rediscover its voice. I loved it. But when I got home, I went back to my favorite.
I think it's quite likely you won't find the best guitar for you until you have played flamenco for a while. I played quite a few, including a '76 Manuel Reyes and a '73 Conde blanca when they were fairly new. They belonged to friends, so I had a chance to get familiar with them over the course of a few years. I tried to buy the Conde, but didn't succeed. It was the only guitar I played that I liked a little better than the Ramirez, until I bought my current favorite in 2000. It was shipped to me on approval. I took it out of the case, tuned it up, played an E-major chord, and it knocked my socks off!
I doubt I will ever sell the Ramirez, due to its sentimental value. I'm grateful for what it taught me. But I don't think my preference is going to change.
RNJ
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