Echi -> RE: Granada guitarmaker's association proposes a museum (Apr. 22 2019 8:34:32)
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It’s very interesting and your work precious. I read regularly your blog. I was in Granada first in 98 and that was the beginning of my interest for flamenco and the flamenco guitar: I still remember with pleasure the guitars I tried and the guitar makers I met at the time. I still play a couple of guitars made in Granada. I for one though am more interested in the guitars made in the last 30 years than those made many years ago. I’s kind of interesting to know how was the environment in Granada at the time of Torres but it’s even more interesting to me how the new age of Granada rose up in the 70ies. I prefer the Granada of the last 50 years and actually some makers more than others. Maybe there is a reason for this: I once spoke with a very learned guitarist and musicologist that wanted to persuade me that Panormo was much more important than Torres for the development of the modern guitar. We spoke a couple of hours of many things: the guitars made in Andalucia at the time, the pitch commonly used to tune the guitars in the different areas of Europe, the Borbonic Reign etc. I was fascinated until I understood his starting point: being that guy from Neaples in Italy (a cultural capital city at the time) he wanted to bring me to the historical cultural centrality of Neaples as essential for the Devélopement of the modern guitar, to claim a sort of gratitude etc.. I mean: the environment is important as much as you want but my point then (and now) is that Torres is Torres and we all know that he was born in the desert of Almeria and nobody knows for sure how he learned. I read something written by a certain guitarmaker of Granada which remembered me that episode. Environment is important but I find people are more important than places. Probably in each time there are some leading figures emerging and setting the trend through the meeting with a musician. What would be the classical guitar without the repertoire written because of Segovia and what should be the flamenco guitar without Paco? I could speak of the time of the “ enlightment “ but then Leonardo Da Vinci is a unique as it was the role of Gutenberg etc.
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