Ricardo -> RE: Not another $200-$200k Guitar Vid (May 12 2022 12:06:55)
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ORIGINAL: Tom Blackshear quote:
The price is about the look, feel, label. That is all. Respectfully, I have to agree that many players are not equipped to discern sound differences with guitars. However, I find differences all the time with my fine tuning. If you mean that you improve the sound along the way such that when you are satisfied, your instruments are ready to go out the door at approx the same minimum value (in your case it is a relatively high market price), then what I was saying was, how can you HEAR the difference between six examples or so, that you HAVE ALREADY TUNED to your liking??? I am certain you couldn’t, but you would have to test it. I know, fairly objectively that your tuning method “works” via the Pedro de Miguel example I happened to come across that was noticeably different than the norm…but it was also based on feel or “response” to my playing. Regarding my quote, the 5 examples I tested myself with, from my own personal collection, each have their obvious response characteristics when in my hands. I am talking about outside of my subjective experience, I could not hear any difference upon instant playback. So it is not about players vs luthiers objective ears, but rather, the different things we are focusing our ears ON, when we have the things in our hot little hands. One last thing to add, and again as objective science this “theory” of mine would be hard to test, but guitar “collections” tend to acquire a “sameness” in tone quality for some reason. I noticed this when I got into Brune’s old shop. I mean all the guitars had some certain quality in common, even the low end models or Marshal’s amazing “scrap wood flamenco” build, much like my personal collection has. Could it be the simple fact Richard plays them ALL?? That is a hard one to check objectively, however, when I re-acquired my first classical guitar (japanese Nagoya) I used from middle school to college (sold 1995) in 2019, it was amazing that it had that similar tone quality of my entire collection and was welcomed home. It got me thinking about this idea again that the player puts something into the instrument that is not there at first.
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