legrec -> RE: Lester DeVoe Waiting List Spot (Feb. 24 2007 22:19:37)
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Hola ! quote:
however, 30 years experience is really nothing compared to a Ramirez, Conde, Gerrundino and others. I will reverse your point of view : Lots of spanish builders are resting on their "laurels" because of these "several decades" of fame, and the one you mentioned have turned since a long time IMO in a big business relation with guitar making, with all the troubles and deception it involves for customers... It's like french wine. I'm french and can clearly see that in the times when nobody knew how to make red wine, we made tons and tons of unbrewable vinegar with a good looking sticker, exported it broadly at unfair prices (read the Conde prices) and laughed on top of our hill&castle. Keeping the good bottles for us and thinking we were eternal kings in this field (and so, stopped to really like, cherrish, innovate, respect wine and wine drinkers). Now, it's VERY hard for us. Singing: "The harder they comes, the harder they fall, na na na". In the "modern" wines contests, we're beaten by Californian, South-American, Australian, etc wines. For sure we still have some bottles of "Château Palmer" or "Romane-Conti" remaining (read "Château Reyes" and "Gerundino-Gonzalez"). At an unbelievable cost and soon not available anymore. For sure, the inertia of customer's buying behaviors prevent us to fall definitively. The fame still compensate the lack of price-quality-honesty relation. But not for long if we don't react. ...same thing for spanish guitars, on the whole... The "extranjeros" have to make a reputation, so they work really hard. And most importantly, with a "discovering" spirit. Like in the good ol' days in Spain. IMO With some notable exceptions, there are better deals (quality-price-relation with maker) outside of spain than inside nowadays if you're not spaniard yourself. And I can say my Devoe clearly "mata" (kills) all the spanish guitars I've tried during my quest... And my second best is from a French builder...[:D] And I've got nothing about spanish builders, I began my quest there, like most of us.
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