RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $4800 OBO

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Patrick

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Joined: Jul. 7 2003
From: Portland, Oregon

RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $480... (in reply to Guest)

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Jeez, only 31?

I have pains that are older!

Happy B Day, buddy.

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Miguel de Maria

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Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ

RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $480... (in reply to Ron.M)

When I first started cooking, I would cut myself a lot, but I don't do it anymore. But these knives are very sharp, and could easily cut to the bone. I will be careful!

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 9 2005 22:01:56

el ted

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RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $480... (in reply to Patrick)

Patrick,
By gum, you are right!! When I look more closely at the photo, I realised that my chair is a different colour. It's uncanny how similar my collection is. NOT!

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TANúñez

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From: TEXAS

RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $480... (in reply to el ted)

Happy B-Day Mike. May you have many more!

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Ricardo

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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC

RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $480... (in reply to Patrick)

Regarding the guitar in question, I had the opportunity to play it tonight. My good friend bought it, to my surprise. It is an excellent instrument well worth the price paid. I have played many of this model, and own a good one myself, and this one is right up there with the best of them. I have also played the student model Conde's which certainly can do the "job".

Not to continue this silly arguement about the value of musical instruments, but to our German friend, I ask why is $2,000 the limit below "being extravagant", when a pro player can do the "job" with a $100 Yamaha if necessary? As the price goes up, the details become important. That is what you pay for, the details, once you get past a wooden box with strings. Everyone has there own personal limit on what is "extravagant".

Ricardo

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Guest

RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $480... (in reply to Patrick)

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As the price goes up, the details become important.

well said. And this includes the details of the sound, the capacity of the instrument, that it's capable of expressing what you want to express and not the other way round.

As with other tools (guitars are tools to express art) price is impossible to understand. Why buy a Lie Nielsen Plane when you can get a Stanley that does the job.

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Miguel de Maria

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From: Phoenix, AZ

RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $480... (in reply to Patrick)

Anders,
I bought the Lie Niesen plane because I didn't know how to sharpen. Don't laugh man! That was a beautiful tool, though. If you've ever had one, I don't think you would mistake it for a current-era Stanley (antique Stanley's would be a different thing, since the Lie Neesen is based on old Stanley's), anymore than I could possibly mistake my Tezanos Perez for a cheap Yamaha.

Anders, do you believe a flamenco guitar should have less sustain than a classical?

REPORT THIS POST AS INAPPROPRIATE | Date Aug. 18 2005 17:23:34

Guest

RE: Conde Hermanos A26 Felipe V $480... (in reply to Patrick)

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Anders, do you believe a flamenco guitar should have less sustain than a classical?

It's a difficult question, because, what is sustain. I can tell you what I try to build into my flamenco and classical guitar.

Flamenco: I like my guitars to have some kind of sustain. I personally don't like very short sustained dry sounding flamenco guitars without any harmonys. My goal is to make the trebles sing and have lots of high overtones. The basses I want to be deep and almost drum like. A big dry and dark boum that doesn't last to long. I find this to serve the music the best, and as I said before, a guitar is a tool that is supposed to serve a certain artform with certain esthetics. If you build a lot of sustain into a flamenco guitar, it will often rumble when you play it hard like many classicals. And when you accompany cante, it can be difficult to control a guitar with a lot of sustain.

Classical. I build more sustain into a classical, but there's a limit, where to much sustain makes the guitar loose it's liveliness, and this I don't like. My personal taste of classical guitars are the smaller lively spruce topped ones with tons of harmonics. I build big sounding cedar guitars as well and I understand what it is the costumer want, but it's not my personal taste.

I don't know if this is an answer, but at least I tried. Words are so useless when it comes to art.