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Jim Opfer -> Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 22 2006 19:48:27)

I am attaching this link because I want to broadcast Stephen Hill to you.
He made a negra for me in 2001 and it's grown into a fantastic, powerful growling flamenco machine gun.
This is recorded straight into the camcorder with no tampering. Bags of energy, bright, crisp, earthy and powerful.
I have a few top guitars and I pulled this one out recently after a few months in her case. I changed the strings and Pow!


(You might have to cut and paste)

Stephens web sit is www.spanishguitars.co.uk
Steve now lives and makes guitars in Spain.



Miguel de Maria -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 22 2006 20:31:36)

Sounds great! Will I sound as good as you if I get one of them that Hills? Great playing, Jim!



Ron.M -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 22 2006 20:32:43)

Hi Jim,
Loved the clip!
I liked most when it broke into Tangos!
Very nice playing!
It sounds a great and powerful guitar, and what I noticed most was how it responded to different techniques.Gentle, Rippling, Aggressive etc..
So at the end of the day, all a great Luthier can provide is an instrument which has a large pallette of tone colours.
So the overall sound still is in the hands of the player if you see what I mean.
A cheap guitar is useless and will make you lose interest in what you are trying to achieve IMO.
Very good guitars are not that expensive, considering the price of many other things going in folk's lives.
In fact, very reasonable indeed.
It's just folk's priorities really...


cheers

Ron



koella -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 22 2006 20:39:34)

The guitar sounds great Jim ! And nice playing ![:)]



Escribano -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 22 2006 20:41:14)

Coincidentally, I just spent the day filming Stephen today on the coast. A warm 75 degress and the chicas were out, so life is sweet.

I'll post the short video when I have edited it later this week.



itoprover -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 22 2006 20:44:41)

Very nice, this guitar sounds wonderful and you play very clean! BTW, which camcoder do you use?



Jim Opfer -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 22 2006 21:34:21)

quote:

Coincidentally, I just spent the day filming Stephen today on the coast. A warm 75 degress and the chicas were out, so life is sweet.


Send Steve my regards.

Looking forward to seeing the film.

Jim.



Jim Opfer -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 22 2006 21:38:28)

quote:

which camcoder do you use?


Sony Handycam DCR-HC18E PAL
If that makes sense? Standard Sony ECM-MS907mic.



itoprover -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 22 2006 23:46:58)

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ORIGINAL: Jim Opfer
Sony Handycam DCR-HC18E PAL
If that makes sense? Standard Sony ECM-MS907mic.


Thanks Jim,
Makes sense for me because I am looking for a camcoder with decent video/audio quality.



Escribano -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 23 2006 0:25:38)

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I am looking for a camcorder with decent video/audio quality.


Then 3 CCDs and an external mic. input - a Rode VideoMic (condensor with its own power) has a very good rep. for the price.



tk -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 23 2006 16:59:10)

Excellent Jim,

I think the guitar sounds very good and you play very clean. excellent!

I felt like the action of the strings was very low. What is the action at 12th fret and the bridge? Have you measured? Just curious.

While you're at it, I would love to hear your 87 Reyes' sound [:D]

Thanks,

TK



Doitsujin -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 23 2006 17:54:35)

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2ss4q0ca4
(You might have to cut and paste)


I love it! Very nice played! Woow!



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bernd -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 23 2006 19:57:14)

Jim, great job :-)

I miss some guitar pictures on his website

Saludos
Bernd



Ricardo -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 24 2006 5:32:33)

Very nice playing and the guitar sounds great. I think when I first got into flamenco, a friend of the family was a classical guitarist and brought over his authentic flamenco guitar. That was the first REAL flamenco guitar I ever played on. I spent a few hours with it. It was a Stephen Hill negra not unlike yours, though I am sure it was probably lower end model. Since I had no experience at the time, all I can say for sure was that it was really responding to rasgueados and thumb work unlike the classical guitar I had been learning on. He was willing to sell but at the time I was still saving money.

Thanks for the vid!

Ricardo



TANúñez -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 24 2006 13:43:09)

Great piece Jim and what a bright resonating negra. Very nice.



Miguel de Maria -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 24 2006 16:10:24)

Tom,
that picture is CLASSIC!



Jim Opfer -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 25 2006 18:33:55)

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and yeah lets hear that Reyes


I'm away this weekend but I'll try to post something up soon.



Jim Opfer -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 25 2006 18:38:22)

quote:

I think when I first got into flamenco


Ricardo, the way you play [:-] that must have been some time ago.
Stephen Hill has really only been making for about 10 years or so here in the UK and recently in Spain having moved there last year.
Could it have been another maker?



Jim Opfer -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 25 2006 18:44:41)

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Is this a tabbed piece or from a CD


Sorry! no tab, I find it really hard to get things from paper, I've got to work hard at it and it doesn't go in for some reason[&:]
I heard something similar years ago played by Philip John Lee, the 'Indian bit', and it stuck. I used an improvised version on that video to open Tangos.



Ricardo -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 25 2006 19:48:57)

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Ricardo, the way you play that must have been some time ago.
Stephen Hill has really only been making for about 10 years or so here in the UK and recently in Spain having moved there last year.
Could it have been another maker?


It was about 10 years ago.
OH shoots, maybe it was Kenny Hill????? Man the memory is going already.[&:]

Maybe he should change his name to stephen hill CONTRERAS, or stephen hill RODRIGUEZ to avoid confusion.[:D]



sonikete -> RE: Fabulous Guitar maker (Oct. 25 2006 20:02:25)

The guitar sounds really great, but it doesnt play itself, it needs someone to squeeze it out of it too, and you do that beautifully.



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