Ricardo -> RE: Lattice Braced Flamenco (Jun. 10 2007 18:59:47)
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Luthier Music Corp in New York is offering Australian Maker John Price lattice braced, arched braceless back flamenco guitar, and Tony Acosta over there says they a quite remarkable instruments. Anybody played a lattice braced flamenco or a John Price flamenco guitar? Oh, the price tag is $8,000.00. Well as luck would have it I just tried such a guitar in Said shop on Tuesday. My feelings are the same as Errol's. Big fat classical sound, not flamenco at all. Very loud, but not the sound you would want for flamenco overall. I compared to Conde in the same shop, what a big difference. I was with a Gipsy singer, and I played one falseta por bulerias, and this guy Tony said "no no don't play loud, don't do golpes! People don't like it here". I said sorry, and did a tremolo, and the guy looked at me like "shhhhh!". The singer and I looked at each other and rolled our eyes. I did not bother telling him I bought a Conde from him ten years ago and had sent many customers his way. We just got up and walked out. Anyway, 8K might be fine for the work put in, but I think before you start experimenting with lattice bracing or whatever, first you need to have a built a successful flamenco instrument. Perhaps if J. Price has a blanca model, it would work better? But the negra was not working for my tastes. Ricardo
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