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Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy
Welcome new members!
We've had a surge of new members recently so I just wanted to welcome you all to the forum and hope you won't be too shy in coming forward and telling us a little about yourselves.
We are very interested in flamenco fans around the World.
OK then, hello from Berlin/Germany! I have been trying to learn Flamenco guitar for several years now but havent excelled the beginner stage yet, due to lack of talent and time. Anyhow i still enjoy playing every now and then for relaxation/chilling. Trading guitars in and out from time to time out of curiosity and the desire to improve by buying a better instrument . Currently waiting for my Jose Lopez Bellido indian rosewood guitar; playing a Duran/Ferrer negra, selling a Conde student model.
Anything else? Oh yeah, my spanish is, sadly, non-existant...but working on that!
You will like that Bellido! I have bought one last year in Germany! Very nice sounding, and very fast to play on, becouse the fretboard in lower at the bass strings. so the strings are put very low!
When you got it, take a mirror, and look under the top ( obenblatt) you will see it sighned and dated there too!
Hi y'all, Moi? An ex-pat Brit in North Carolina. I feel a bit out of place, though, y'all appear to be up on the 29th floor, I am still in the basement.
A bit of history, (I know, I know, let bygones be bygones, as I told my history teacher once), I had the requisite rock group in Torquay in the '60s, then purchased a '69 Manuel de la Chica in London in 1972. At least, I assume that's what it is. I played classical through the mid '80s when sailing took over my life. Quit the job, lived aboard for two years, gave it up, came here. I am now starting over with guitar lessons.
I have lurked here for a while, but thought I'd better show myself.
Hola!, Antonio/South of Portugal . Like Daniel I also have been trying to play flamenco for a few years. I also play classical and gypsy jazz (all self taught ). I play in my classical guitar with a golpeador installed.I recently found that there are more educational material available on the web and that encourage me to give a little more time to flamenco.
Welcome Antonio de Portugal. I would think that being so close to Spain, you could just drive over and take some lessons from some old maestros. By the way, I love Carlos Paredes, have you heard any of his records?
Yes, I am less than 2 hours drive from Sevilha . I think in the future to take some lesons. . But it has to be during holidays time . Yes, I have many of Carlos paredes CD's; great guitar player. Unfortunately he left us last year. Regards Antonio
Thanks for the welcome, Miguel. I have a BIG confession to make.
(Stands up and looks around the forum. Thinks: why is everyone wearing a toga?)
(Clears throat)
Ahem. Ahem.
Hello, my name is Peaceful, and I am learning the guitar. It's, um,, er,, um, (looks sheepishly at the floor and kicks his toes) a Fender Stratocaster. I'm sorry, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to. The voices make me do it! I have yearned for one of these things since I was 14 (that's 52 years and counting). I figured that as I had forgotten most xxxxx all of the classical skills I once had, I might as well start over. Besides, the only teacher in this neck of the woods I could find...
Do y'all still love me?
My hope is that once I get my de la Chica back from Fret Not, where Marguerite is re-hydrating it and removing the cracks, I will try and apply some of what I am learning to this instrument also. I guess I need inspiration, persperation, and probably a lot more spare time than the clock allows.
Antonio, do the various CDs you have also have singing, or just the guitar? I have only been able to find one guitar CD of his. By a strange coincidence, just after I became aware of this great man, I did an internet search--he had died the same day I first heard his CD.
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