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RE: Conde Questions (in reply to jshelton5040)
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Hola Nice posts, Pimientito. I have only played one Santos, from the 30s, with Manuel Ramirez label. It is quite pleasant, but with its small body and old style construction, it bears no resemblance to a modern guitar. I have used its headstock as part of a fan of various guitar heads in the cover of my homenaje recording of José Millán, who died last year. If I knew how to upload, I might be able to send acopy, though it is not yet finished. We could have a competition to see who can correctly identify all the guitars Suerte Sean
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Date Feb. 14 2009 6:01:07
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gj Michelob
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RE: Conde Questions (in reply to Pimientito)
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wow... you really are ammassing a volume of very detailed information. However, on the one at hand, not that i would want to encourage you to take that risk, but simply to share my experience, i had the same "apparent" problem with my Conde initially. I felt it sounded dull and volume-less, nearly as good as a Manuel Rodriguez student model i had for a tenth of the price. But after a few weeks it opened up. It is still not as loud as other guitars, but so balanced, brillinat and genuinely "flamenco" i never get tired of it. After trying so many guitars, the "scent" becomes cloudy; ideally one should have a chance to play the "candidate" for two weeks, at least, before deciding... but i had to change more guitars than girlfriends, because of the "blind decision" !!
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Date Feb. 21 2009 8:23:30
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Anders Eliasson
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RE: Conde Questions (in reply to jshelton5040)
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Hi guys, an advice (now I´m going down to below 0 in my score again , but this I accept. Its the name of the game here on foroflamenco ) Dont even try to find out who´s making the guitars. When you find out, it´ll all just be boring reality and Conde guitars will just be left as well build and overprized. flamenco guitars made by mr. X Stay with the myth. Thats what makes Conde what they are now. Not reality. Just look at the time you can use on this topic. Its been up I dont know how many times during the almost 6 years I´ve been on this foro: Headstock, Gravina, Mariano, Label, Sanchis or not, Faustino, my brother in law and my friend Paco´s sister. All this is what keeps the myth ans the story alive. If you knew everything you´d see that Condes are just........ Guitars, and you´d have nothing but reality to discuss. We, the human beings always want to know everything untill we find out that knowing everything is boring.
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Date Feb. 23 2009 23:31:41
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