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I am currently engaged in a project about the effects of antonio de torres on the guitar and its construction as well as the effect on guitar music and repertoire.
I would love to interview any and all of you that have knowledge! or even just interview you on what parts of your building process are influenced by torres
RE: I want to interview luthiers! (in reply to HemeolaMan)
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ORIGINAL: HemeolaMan
I am currently engaged in a project about the effects of antonio de torres on the guitar and its construction as well as the effect on guitar music and repertoire.
I would love to interview any and all of you that have knowledge! or even just interview you on what parts of your building process are influenced by torres
Please help!
Thanks !
Well, it might be expedient to say that Torres affected practically all traditional style guitars from that era. Any guitar with fan braces is a good candidate. And fan brace placement is probably the most important theme to any guitar as far as the sound goes.
Perhaps less importantly was the actual construction process, or how Torres put the guitar together. Otherwise, most builders today would be using his actual technique for this purpose. Most technique lost its ability to stay in vogue, perhaps as it didn't necessarily make that much difference to keep it.
The modern school has a lot of technique and purpose for building guitars, and it stands to reason that we are progressing with the older traditional styles with more accute handling of the building process.
One thing to observe is that the back on many older models was sized differently from the top portion, and this leaves some evidence to suggest that many older builders left the tension out of the back and sides to resist having it act in an adverse manner against the top. This is one theory.
RE: I want to interview luthiers! (in reply to HemeolaMan)
Hola
I hope you have read the seminal texts, such as "Antonio De Torres, Guitar Maker" by José Romanillos, and "Nombres Propios de la Guitarra: Antonio de Torres: a collection of the Mesa Redonda sobre Antonio de Torres y la Guitarra Flamenca", by the Ayuntamiento de Córdoba in 2008.
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RE: I want to interview luthiers! (in reply to HemeolaMan)
Hi HemeolaMan
For me Torres is like a great grandmaster of the guitar luthery and i consider myself to be one of his disciples in the sense that i basically follow his design and system of guitar construction. I respect him a lot for his work. Nevertheless i don't build exactly after his design in all aspects of the construction as i belief that guitarmaking evolved in the last 150 years to produce a more contemporary sound. I distinguish between flamenco and classical guitars. If i had to build a classical i would go with the Torres and Romanillos style as i like the torres sound on classical guitars. For flamencos i'm more with the Reyes and Barbero style as i prefere this sound for flamencos.
There is a technique which was used by Torres and it is used by Romanillos as well, but i'm not going to mention the technique here. If you study the pics from the Romanillos course on my website you might be able to find out what it could be. This is a Torres technique that i'm applying on my building as i beliefe it makes up a difference.
As for the building itself i use the Torres method of determing the correct top stiffness by flexing the top with my hands using the thumbs.
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