Tom Blackshear -> RE: new build for 68' Conde style flamenco (Dec. 24 2019 15:42:35)
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I’m a little surprised that all your bracing patterns are with 7 + 2 closing bars. My 81 Conde has the same pattern while my 64 Conde is again with 7 braces but without closing bars. You got me on this one as all I've seen with the open fan bracing is the Conde Hermanos label as compared to the Sobrinos de Domingo Esteso label. All of the Esteso labels, at that time, have had closed bars that I know of. The Conde labels were built in town, mainly by apprentices, and the Esteso mainly by Faustino, etc. in another location, I think. In 1965, I could have bought a Conde for about 120 dollars to where an Esteso would sell for $350 US. I was offered these prices while in Madrid, at the time. However, I wound up buying a first class Ramirez flamenco for $200 US and sold it for $650 when I returned home. This was a discount off the regular retail of $900.00 at that time in Dallas Texas.
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