Ricardo -> RE: Conde style guitar (Apr. 24 2007 6:29:53)
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Hi. How is the guitar doing? About that brace pattern, my student had a book with different vintage guitars with brace patterns shown. I noticed the parallel braces used by Ramirez III, but only 5, on a flamenco guitar from 1962. The 7 strut version more like this one, with the two outside struts fanned not parallel, was on a 1975 Gerundino negra of all makes! It looked almost exactly the same, except for the two bars that go all the way up and surround the soundhole. But the book did not have Conde Hermanos, the specific design. He did have a couple Estesos and one Vda y Sobrinos, which IS Conde of course, but more designed like the Esteso in terms of looks and bracing. And it was old, like 1942. Most of the other guitars in the book used the standard style fan bracing. Only the Ramirez and Gerundino used the parallel struts.
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