Guest -> RE: chunky or slim necks? (Mar. 20 2004 14:58:50)
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The thing that outbalances a guitar the most is the tuning machines. Especially some of the good ones are very heavy. (Gotoh, Schaller) I´ve never tried Gilbert, but they look like light high quality tuners. 4 mm is a very thin fingerboard, but of course it´ll help the balance. (but not that much). A very easy way to balance the guitar is to put an endblock which is a bit heavyer, but then everyone yells... uuuuuuhhh, a flamenco guitar must not weigh more than x grams. Again the opposite way that you should think. If it´s nice and weighs 1200 grams, its good, and if it weighs 1250 grams and is eaqually nice...... well, then it´s equally good. I sell both high end flamenco and classical guitars, and to be honest, the flamenco guitarists are a lot more stupid on these aspects (sorry) They have so many fixed ideas on how things have to be, that they often forget to listen and feel the instrument. Classical players are obsessed on Cedar/spruce soundboards, but besides that it´s sound, sound and playability
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