aaron peacock -> RE: New Russian guitar supply outfit (Aug. 7 2020 11:39:22)
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Ah, the famous Ленин – гриб story! I'll bet that a mycellium-spiderweb soundboard will be strong AND thin, so there! But, regarding the main automaton that seems to have been born from this thread, it's simply an unfortunate choice in acronym. I think of how we commonly abbreviate "proof of concept", but I can't look at this acronym without thinking "peice of crap", which is sometimes also apt, with early revisions, etc. Acronym choice... Anyway, so heat-treated woods (do they do a sustainable ebony too?) and a new glue review. Sticker rosettes. Some of the rosette-making-processes here appear to dwarf the guitar-making process in complexity! Will such a lot accept "progress"? What are the generally known effects of an "unbound sound-hole" versus the usual bound version (what, is it 1mm soundboard with 1mm rosette +- when all fitted and finished?)? I can only state that I have a very low-end Portuguese folk guitar that's unbound (no purflings/bindings/etc) with only a burned deco around the soundhole, and the guitar is generally the lightest guitar you ever held, extremely sonorous and "open", varying from boomingly loud to soft lute-like tones, normal tension, very dynamic... but I have no A/B, as the other guitars I own from the same maker are different models and the thought of "good stodgy shoes" comes to mind with at least one (heavily bound) flamenca, that nevertheless is bright and twangy when squeezed... what are the factors for the soundhole and rosette and top tap tones etc? but the outfit sounds nice, I suppose, and generally, besides whatever ones views on the authorities in a given country, I've never felt more at home or welcomed than with Russians, when in Russia, etc... I feel more "right wing yahoo" in the "mid-western USA" or here in the "Beira Interior" than I felt in Samara or Barnaul or Moscow or St. Petersburg etc...not that there aren't common factors (shopping for a chain-saw in either Novosibirsk or Minneapolis, for example...)
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