Richard Jernigan -> RE: new build for a 1987 Reyes style flamenco (Dec. 12 2019 0:33:15)
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ORIGINAL: BarkellWH Richard, I may be mistaken, but isn't this the second guitar you have bought from Tom? I seem to recall about two or three years ago you went to San Antonio and bought another guitar from Tom. If this is the second, it really speaks well for Tom's creations. On the other hand, I may be getting dotty in my old age. Bill I also thought so too... believe it was the Miguel Rodriguez flamenco style? I am sure Richard will confirm. Curious how they compare. Yes, I bought a cedar/Indian "Miguel Rodriguez" model classical from Tom a couple of years ago. It's definitely not a flamenca. Having heard it on the Foro, I drove down to San Antonio with the money in my pocket. I took my Abel Garcia spruce/Brazilian classical to compare. In person the "Rodriguez" model sounded even better than on the Foro, and I liked the feel of it, so I bought it. Tom asked to compare #329, a "1987 Reyes" model negra, to my Arcangel Fernandez. I took the cedar/cypress Ramirez along as well, since I think it's a great guitar. (I wouldn't say that about all the 1960s Ramirez blancas I have played, but I really like mine.) I was not at all thinking of buying an instrument, and told Tom so before I drove to San Antonio, but #329 certainly measured up to the two blancas, and has a sound and feel unlike any other guitar I have gotten to know. I repeated what I had told Tom before: The last time I went to Paracho I told myself it was just for old time's sake--I wasn't going to buy any guitars. In the event, I only bought two. I have since given one of the Paracho guitars away to the Austin Classical Guitar Society. It is an Arturo Huipe cedar/cocobolo "Fleta" model. I would say it is on the borderline between a very good conservatory guitar and a lesser concert instrument. I liked Huipe, and I thought it was a good guitar for the money. The Guitar Society in turn gave it to a student after she borrowed it to audition successfully for Adam Holzman's guitar program here at the University. I am not inclined to sell or otherwise dispose of any of the guitars I now own, except for a 1991 Manuel Contreras Sr. spruce/Brazilian. It's a very good guitar, maybe even a great one, but I don't play it much. Its default tone quality may be excellent for a concert hall (the Romeros played Contreras for a while before they switched to Miguel Rodriguez), but in my medium sized practice room it doesn't appeal to me as much as my other classicals do. As I told Tom, and said above, I will have more to say about #329 in a week or two, after I have made its acquaintance. RNJ
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