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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR
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Ricardo
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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (in reply to jshelton5040)
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ORIGINAL: jshelton5040 quote:
ORIGINAL: Tom Blackshear Many builders could benefit from it, if everything goes right with this exploration; even the Conde group could start selling some of the older styles again. You know Tom, I'm pretty close to the same age as you and I have had the opportunity to play many of those "old master pieces" when they were still pretty common. I've even owned a few (Rodriguez, Sobrinos, Ramirez, etc.). Overall my experience has been that modern guitars are much better and more uniform in quality. The worst of the old guitars I've played was a worn out Santos followed by a worn out Arcangel Fernandez. I don't think there is any mystery to the old guitars they were just guitars...some good, some awful. They're fascinating to examine but only to collectors or builders most players would only want one as an oddity or curiosity never as a guitar for performance. Well, I am a relatively younger guy but feel there is something to the old saying "they don't make em like they used to". Maybe it is more about feel than sound, but there is something going on. I do agree modern guitars often get a bad rap just for being modern which is not always fair. But there is something to holding and playing an old instrument that has had a history of being played vs sitting in the case, it has some extra magic you can even smell. But certain details such as neck shape or bridge set up I only notice a few modern luthiers are tapping into. The concern about "volume" and "projection" I think is over emphasized. I much prefer balance and clarity, which often corresponds to relatively "quiet" guitars. Ricardo
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Date Oct. 17 2014 15:26:36
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Tom Blackshear
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RE: FINE TUNING A GUITAR (in reply to constructordeguitarras)
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Ethan, Most builders have a tendency to over-build a little to allow age to develop a path to better tonal response. So it's a matter of sanding a microscopic amount of wood off in certain areas to adjust the tone in an instrument. It requires certain intuitive skill, similar to tuning a violin after its initial build, but generally no scraping, just a little sanding. And then once it's done I allow age to improve its tone. The character of an instrument is fairly well set with top graduation and strut design but the nuance is improved with fine-tuning. You can improve the feel of the left and right hand articulation, tension, as well as the depth of excitement, or to smooth out its dimensional quality. All in all, it's a skill that can be developed with a teacher or just experimenting on your own, if you don't mind scraping a guitar or two. I'll be covering some of this with my current Rodriguez tutorial, when I can finish it.
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