Ricardo -> RE: Paco de Lucia guitars (Oct. 9 2007 20:05:01)
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Somewhere along the line, I had heard that Paco, or Paco's brother rather, were not happy about Conde Hermanos, that being the widow's shop Gravina not Felipe V, but even the other shops have the same missconception, that THAT was the guitar Paco uses. They were selling a "Paco de lucia model" guitar, and neither was paco getting money from that, nor was is it endorsed. In fact, they felt that the Paco model Conde was not even a good guitar and certainly not the same instrument that Paco used (Faustino conde). Sure there were good condes but those were not the guitars that Paco used so they wanted to make a guitar that Paco actually WOULD use and could put his name on, AND make fair money for the advert I am sure. So probably Paco tried all the models, his Brother too, said OK these are good, then sighned a stack of lables, if not use a stamp which is faster and cleaner, and trust the maker sticks to whatever was good about those guitars. THe big irony is that Paco used the guitar on his CD for 90% of the songs, did a video and took photos, then went back to using Conde.[8|][:D] The biggest add for any guitar is when Paco or any big name player goes on stage with that Conde or Reyes or whatever and new comers say "wow which guitar is he using???" Ricardo
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