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Opinions on This Guitar for Flamenco Please
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Quill
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Joined: Nov. 2 2013
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RE: Opinions on This Guitar for Flam... (in reply to Quill)
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So I went to guitar Center this afternoon and tried out guitars. They didn't have any dedicated flamenco guitars in stock, not even the Yamaha. I definitely liked the nylon stringed ones better thought I didn't hear the steels with picks. Considering that I want to do finger style, that's okay with me. I tried to play the guitars you guys mentioned, but not all of them were in the store. I did discover some good things. My hand is big enough from top to bottom of fret board. I do have to stretch a bit to reach from side-to-side on the frets. The 650 guitars would probably feel better with a capo. I didn't have time to try one but the small guy salesman old me he grew into it. He started at fifteen and had time to grow into it. I was stretched on the guitars with more depth but the thinner ones felt fine, especially the 3/4 models. I'm thinking about the small Yamaha classical. So Anders, I tried out a guitar the size of the NTX, and it felt great. Too bad the NTX won't sound flamenco. The NCX is marketed as a flamenco classical but is the same size as a regular classical so that's no advantage, plus it's thicker. When it comes down to it, I'm torn between the Yamaha CG172SF that I juuuust might fit and a 3/4 classical I'd have to alter for flamenco. Back to where I started but I'm more confident having tried them out! Strangely, for all the musicians in my area (I'm 100 miles from New Orleans), there seem to be only 3 guitar instructors in Baton Rouge. And there are lots of blues and rock guitarist here but only three teacher I found on the internet and at Guitar Center store? How do all these people learn to play guitar??? Can I learn flamenco online? That's what it looks like is going to have to happen. So some options: 1) Buy the Yamaha flamenco and play flamenco and other stuff on the same guitar. Save up for better sounding guitar next year and keep this one for a beater. 2) Buy a 3/4 classical (even Yamaha classical sounds better on Youtube than Yamaha flamenco to my untrained ears) and lower the strings. Will this sound good in the long run with classical sustain? 3) Save up for a better sounding and more expensive flamenco guitar than the Yamaha and risk not liking plaing guitar and have to sell at a loss? 4) Any scenarios I didn't list? Advice?
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