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Sean
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Joined: Jan. 20 2011
From: Canada
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RE: Something caught my eye (in reply to Sean)
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The maker is Juan Montero Aguilera, a Spanish luthier for the past 50+ years. The craftsmanship is clean, the drop of glue on the ends of the fan braces is indeed common old school. What stands out is the white substance painted on the soundboard, which is smeared a little on some of the top lining in places. The fan struts are spruce, you can see a big difference in the colour between the fan struts and the soundboard which has no apparent grain lines. This paduak negra could be either cedar or spruce as the site the picture is from has one of each for sale. Now for my guess on what this white paint like substance could be. Gesso popped into my head for some reason, it's used in the art world by painters as a primer and canvas stiffener, it's also white. I looked up gesso, the original formula is basically chalk and thinned out hide glue, thinner then paint. Could this be a cedar top negra with gesso painted on the inside of the soundboard as some kind of stiffener or hardener? Has anyone heard of such a thing, rumours, old stories from the past perhaps?
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Date Nov. 2 2011 2:49:00
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estebanana
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RE: Something caught my eye (in reply to Sean)
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Egg white was mainly used by itself as a sealer, but it stays clear. It can be mixed with a few things that would make it white, lead white or lead with calcium carbonate. But those mixtures would only add way too much damping to the guitar. And there no reason to put egg white on the inside. I but it's just white shellac. I think it's also a misjudgment to think that sealing the in side protects the guitar from seasonal or humidity changes. Re: Smallman style, the people who build them always say "Oh no they don't sound like banjos at all, they sound like Spanish guitars." Every one of them I've ever heard sounded either like a banjo or a harp. Sounding like a harp is not such a bad thing, but even the one I hear on recordings by John Williams sound like banjos. I was listening tot the radio the other day and it was recording of his version of Aranjuez piece and it sounded like a banjo in the core of the sound. Once the classical guitarist Philip Rochegar, a guy who is not famous but should be, said to me he wished classical guitar sounded played more lie flamenco guitars. He said he wanted to record back with a flamenco guitar. Ever since then I wanted to make a deep bodied flamenco guitar with a big plantilla. Philip said that most recording artists in his opinion go for the wrong kind of sound when recording the Spanish composed pieces. he said they should pick big flamenco sounding guitars that have a rough voice but will have a singing quality. It's a difficult guitar to make, but I always hear that sound in my head when I hear recordings of Spanish rep. on "Germanic" sounding cold guitars. Some top classical players have told me they need those "banjo" guitars because they are loud. And said he loves the romantic Spanish sound, but it's not practical for everything. I digress, but I want to make that rough voiced singer.
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