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RE: Why all the Reyes copies?
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Ricardo
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RE: Why all the Reyes copies? (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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I agree with Morante. A guitar is a tool. made to make players express their art. All this focus on some builders is putting emphasis in the wrong place. The guitar in itself is nothing more than a wooden box with a stick and some strings on. We the builders should be humble and not try to be the stars of the show. For me a player, the guitar is so much more than that, and the importance of the person(s) behind making it too. There have been times the guitar was my only close friend and companion and I have spent countless hours marveling at her details, even the "faults". And each one is different...I can't imagine what would life be like if I had only ONE. I often look down at my gyspy kings rumba guitar as a "tool", cheap and lacking in so many ways, yet such a necessity in my work. But even still, there are days I stop and take a good look and even she is an amazing piece of art, faults and all. I admit, I think it does luthiers no service to bad mouth other instruments and makers publicly, which I find A LOT in the internet world and find it quite odd. In that sense some humility could be helpful, but for sure there can certainly be well deserved pride in ones own creations.
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Date May 8 2014 13:51:42
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gj Michelob
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RE: Why all the Reyes copies? (in reply to Anders Eliasson)
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I agree with Morante. A guitar is a tool. made to make players express their art. All this focus on some builders is putting emphasis in the wrong place. The guitar in itself is nothing more than a wooden box with a stick and some strings on. We the builders should be humble and not try to be the stars of the show. It is very humble of you [and I am not surprised] to belittle your work. However, I must disagree with your and Morante's excessively cynic and frigid approach: I propose that Guitar [or violin] making falls between the Artisanal and Artistic categories of crafts, but is endowed by yet another unique element, the engineering of its sound. It is not a tool, but an instrument, and then it is more than an instrument, it is ART in its own right. It is true that musicians will give a voice to the instrument, but a fine instrument can and has been a tremendous source of inspiration for many artists. One can dismiss my view as overly enthusiastic, but I admire a guitar maker's industrious genius imbued in every aspect of their work and revealed in the finished product. A Luthier made instrument, to me, is nothing short of a work of art.
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Date May 8 2014 15:28:06
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Ruphus
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RE: Why all the Reyes copies? (in reply to gj Michelob)
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ORIGINAL: gj Michelob A Luthier made instrument, to me, is nothing short of a work of art. Considering how there is preceding vision and aim together with corresponding ability to make aimed effects come concretely alive to thirds ... To my understanding that is what makes art, indeed. I remember in Balkan souvenir shops ( like of Albania or Yugoslavia ) those locally manufactured guitars and yukuleles ... Wich I suppose would be found at many countrie´s Airport souvenir shops, in qualities very similar to each other ... Seeing how even entry level guitars suffice to spoil one´s ear and diaphragm, I assume it could be needing kind of those souvenir axes for someone to play on for a while and then come back refreshed to celebrate the sonority and wonder of fine guitars. At least for those who be spoiled or distanced enough to not be touched by the flair of the guitarra. - Naturally, not thinking of you, Anders. - ( Which are no little in numbers, at least where either the culture defames music or where youngsters have been raised with monotony as music. I have experienced so many, grown up that way, who have very little to no musical perceptor. And I sincerely pity them as poor beings, robbed of an essential ingredient in human life. - Just today I was talking about those with music-banning culture and their insensibility for nature and fellow creatures, where the frigidity is quite the same as with music.) Even plants have lately been found to have cells that make them hear ( and it is known since decades already that they will actually grow better when exposed to certain music, like waltz for instance ) which only emphasizes what in terms of degeneration has occured to human individuals who are deprived of musical sensibility. They are outperformed by plants, or better to say: vegetating. Emotionally deprived shadows of human´s self. - Just had to get rid about this sad condition while the hampered are around in hundreds of millions. Ruphus
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Date May 8 2014 16:17:54
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