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Posts: 3532
Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
2011 Shelton-Farretta Blanca $1900
2011 Shelton-Farretta flamenco blanca, 657 mm scale, handmade for me by the luthier, John Shelton. The woods are caucasian spruce with bearclaw figuration, cypress, cedar, ebony fingerboard, rosewood bindings. The body is deeper than his typical blanca model in order to fill out the tone. This is an easy-playing guitar that projects to the audience with strong basses and trebles that pop with a strong attack. It strums very well. It has the light weight typical of a blanca. This is a flamenco guitar, but is versatile enough for classical.
The guitar is in excellent condition, with only a few very-hard to see imperfections. It was made to get max sound and playability and has few aesthetic frills.
Please check out my vids below:
1. vid about the guitar older videos, lower quality 2. vid playing Sor/Segovia #15 3. Sor/Segovia #10
Shipping from Tempe, AZ is extra, and will be cost plus $10 for boxing, etc.
Posts: 898
Joined: Dec. 6 2012
From: Lisboa, Portugal
RE: 2011 Shelton-Farretta Blanca $1900 (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
Hi Miguel, I had never seen you play. Didn't know you were such a good player. You should post your videos here on the Foro from time to time, whether it's Classical stuff or not. I really liked the videos on your channel.
Posts: 3532
Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
RE: 2011 Shelton-Farretta Blanca $1900 (in reply to FredGuitarraOle)
Thank you for the kind words. Many of my vids were a project of doing the Sor/Segovia Etudes, a series old school classical guitarists used to study. I kind of went from being a flamenco nut to being a classical nut! I'll upload some stuff when I get some flamenco going! :)
RE: 2011 Shelton-Farretta Blanca $1900 (in reply to Miguel de Maria)
Hey Miguel,
Took the hazzles with bypassing local internet censoring to have a glance at the face behind the calm voice. Very sympathetic appearance actually, and I like how you present the music.
Posts: 3532
Joined: Oct. 20 2003
From: Phoenix, AZ
RE: 2011 Shelton-Farretta Blanca $1900 (in reply to arias)
657 mm scale. 2.5 mm action at the 6th, 12th fret, top of fret to bottom of string. 2 mm action at the 1st. fingerboard width: 52 mm nut, 64 mm at the 12th. string spacing: 44.5 mm string center to string center at the nut, 52 mm at the 12th
Let me know if there's anything else I can tell you.
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