estebanana -> RE: Moraito's guitar for sale (Dec. 5 2014 13:12:01)
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Either way, it's still Moraito's guitar, probably his favorite one. You would own a big piece of flamenco history. It's not like it's his old toothbrush or something I would not mind having his old toothbrush, in fact if it would make me play better, I'd brush my teeth with it everyday. ______ 670 that is a long scale, it's awesome. I'm not making any more flamencos with short scales. I dislike them and never should have consented to make the shorter ones I have made. Lesson learned. For me 660 is really nice scale. Back in the old days I can imagine if a guitarmaker did not like making short scale or long scale guitars whatever reason suited their building style no one would question them. Today you have to justify everything you do and do talky talky to give reasons why. In the old days they just made guitars, than then players picked them out based on what they like. So many factors are at play in determining how a guitar feels it's difficult to say tension an feel is on scale alone. Todays builders are asked to do everything, like your website has drop down menus you can look at and check off a list of attributes your guitar will have. That's fine, but in some ways I think it is counterproductive in terms a guitar maker getting a style. Today we are expected to cater to any scale length a player wants, but really any scale length might not suit the way a certain builder actually builds; if you really follow your gut, which is really all you have after you get a grip on some basic theory, you gut might see how it is important to only do certain things. But customers will ask for things outside that range and you are expected to move with that even if it is counter to your natural instincts as a maker. Did players go to Gerundino and try to direct how he worked? Nope. See I think more and more as I get older that people best make things the way THEY make them, not the way others think they should be made for them. Scale is very personal for players and for makers. For every player that expresses a like or dislike of a scale length, I think makers have the same feelings and observations and preferences. But what a maker makes is driven by a market for players directing how they want the guitar to look and what scale it has. That was not always the case, and I think the old way is better, for guitar making.
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