soclydeza85 -> RE: Buying first flamenco guitar (~$800-1000) (May 24 2017 2:15:49)
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Figured I'd give an update: I decided to drive up to Staten Island and pick up the used Yamaha flamenco for 285. I forgot that I had gotten my Ibanez nylon string with standard string spacing (by that I mean the strings are quite a bit closer together than flamencos/classicals, closer to regular non-nylon guitars), but I found that some of the techniques I was having trouble getting just-right felt more natural on the Yamaha with standard flamenco spacing. All-in-all, I'm digging this guitar, it's got that punchy, thin (I don't mean that in a bad way) flamenco sound which is great. I had actually contacted a guy on Craigslist who was selling an Ignacio Razo F-1E for 675, which, from doing some online research, seemed like a great deal for a legit flamenco student guitar from a known Spanish luthier. We went back and forth for a while and I thought the deal was sealed, I just asked him to send me a quick video/sound clip of him playing it so I knew it was what I was looking for (I didn't want to drive all the way out to him to blow 700 on a dud guitar). He kept saying he was gonna send it but kept putting it off (seemed kind of suspicious) since Saturday. Come this morning, I said "screw it", decided to get the Yamaha and spend some of the extra money on learning materials. He still hasn't sent me any kind of follow up text, not sure what his deal was... Anyways, thanks for all the advice, everybody! I still plan on getting a legit Spanish-made guitar in the future, after I increase my skills and bank account a bit, but for now I'm happy with that I have.
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