Mark2 -> RE: Moraito's guitar for sale (Dec. 2 2014 16:35:44)
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That's amazing-everyone should have access to a fellow like that. But being a left hander, he would be of limited value to me. It's strange not being able to evaluate many guitars as to playability and feel. I'm on the waiting list for what I hope is the greatest guitar I've ever owned or played. terms are all the money up front, no returns, because it's going to be left handed. Electric guitars not much better. I'd love to get a gibson jazz box, but lefty ones are rare and expensive, and not often available locally. Buying a guitar for 5k plus online is a huge act of faith, no matter the label. If I was right handed, I could pick from dozens of them. quote:
ORIGINAL: Paul Magnussen quote:
Well, to me me a guitar is just a guitar: the previous owner is not important Except to the extent that he might be expected to have chosen a good one. In London there’s an amateur classical guitarist called Paul Durham, well known to all the top luthiers in England and Spain. He has the most the most amazing ear for a good guitar that I’ve ever come across; but whichever he has, he eventually finds some fault with it, sells it and gets another one. So that if you wanted a great classical guitar, all you had to do was wait till he got tired of the current one, and then buy it. I’ve known him since I was a teenager, and almost every single classical guitar I’ve owned* (after the first beginner model) came from Paul. He was mentioned in Guitar International as having owned more top-name guitars than any other person [:D] http://www.guitarnz.info/html/nz_guitar_history.html *Except one Ramírez, which was a mistake. In the ’80s he sold me a Joaquín García that I’m totally happy with, so now I’m off the treadmill.
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