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There are 2 cejillas advertised in the UK on ebay, both described as "vintage" from 1950's Spain in product info. One is listed as "VINTAGE FLAMENCO CEJILLA" and the other as "FLAMENCO GUITAR CEJILLA"
I have a curious feeling that I have seen them for sale somewhere else, but can't find or place where.
Seems pricey for what it is without some special reason to buy / luthier name? Unless you really love these particular ones in which case value is in eye of beholder. But I've seen plenty of good looking new ones in guitar shops for half the price.
Seems pricey for what it is without some special reason to buy / luthier name? Unless you really love these particular ones in which case value is in eye of beholder. But I've seen plenty of good looking new ones in guitar shops for half the price.
back to the topic.... I messaged the seller and he said they belonged to his father who had bought them in Spain in the '50's. He doesn't know who made them or where exactly his father bought them.
He seemed genuine enough, but I wonder if he is mistaken.
The dark wood one looks a bit like those "conde media luna cejilla" types, which wouldn't be from the '50's.
It says many have come from Mundo-Flamenco in Germany, and the bone one with red inlay 6th row down in the far right column looks like the bone one with blue inlay offered on ebay.
Cheapest offered on ebay are about £35 plus postage (£10 from USA), most expensive is £90 from Jerez. There is a whole bunch of other ones for about £60 (same price as the so-called "vintage" ones)
I bought one about 20 years ago in "El Mundo Flamenco" shop in London and the peg/hole fit was so bad it was unusable. A friend who repaired string instruments re-bored the hole and fitted it with a violin peg, and it has worked good since. I mostly use Dunlop capos but felt like getting a new trad cejilla.
sure, those are 30 Euros (I expect plus shipping). I'm not hung up on the "vintage" thing (and anyway, the whole point of this thread is that I suspect they may not actually be "vintage"), I just want something that actually works and doesn't look like some kind of TOWIE vagazzle.... I am trying to buy one from Mundo Flamenco in Germany, but he can't take a credit card or paypal, so it would have to be a bank transfer but that will cost me nearly as much as the capo, so I'm a bit stuck.
I use transferwise to get around ripoff bank fees - only charge 2 euros for GBP/Euro conversion. I use them to pay for my guitar lessons direct into my Spanish teachers bank account. No trouble.
What ever they are vintage or not they are way too expensive, for a Cejillas. Some of you handyman guys, Luthiers, etc, should got into production of these and sell them at a competitive price and cleanup , there is one guy on eBay in the US selling some for $11.99, far better price the $60 - $100.
take a look at something like Revolut for international payments this a phone banking app, but you also get a physical pre-pay mastercard. you get almost interbank exchange rates between thousands of different currencies, free bank transfers into any bank, free transfers to other card users, a free euro bank account, free ATM withdrawals anywhere in the world upto £250 per month, and then only 1 or 2% fee if you go over this (still cheaper than anything else)
there are other companies also using a similar model (e.g. Monzo), they all rely on you using a smartphone (iOS/Android)
A really nice cejilla is not as easy to make as you may think. If you make a ton of them you can lower the price, but If I made a run of ten or twelve I think I would want about $35.00 for each one. To dress them up and really make the peg fit takes some work. I've made a few cejillas as complementary to orders, and once someone asked me to make a seven string cejilla, I declined because it was too much extra work.
The easiest thing do is buy some cheap cejilla and work it over to make work well. Or just get Dunlap or a Planet Waves.
That seems like a fair price to me, and what I would expect to pay. I was thinking if I could "prove" those ebay cejillas are modern capos from a known shop I could make him a reasonable offer.
But will you use it? I bought a nice plain black Pantoja one in Sevilla last year for 15 euros
sure, the one i bought some years ago and got a violin peg fitted to lives on the cheap guitar that hangs on the living room wall above the sofa ( ), I use it all the time.
I would like a decent "trad" one to take out to play instead of the dunlops I use all the time.
But will you use it? I bought a nice plain black Pantoja one in Sevilla last year for 15 euros - in a fit of touristy madness.
It looks nice, but my D'addario clamp-on one is way more usable. So the Pantoja sits unused.
Yes I agree, the traditional Cejillas, is not made for quick change, and takes both hands off the guitar to use. Here is the one I use, very non-traditional, but very useable with one hand as you are playing. Also bought on eBay I think I paid $2.00 with free shipping, from China.
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I use the Planet Wave NS Pro for everyday use, and a trad version I bought from the Condes when I want to show off
I've never tried a Chinese nut-cracker before ..
You should give one a try, very lite and easy to use, I recommend it. Just make sure you are getting capo for Flamenco, or Classical neck, capo arm is flat and longer, to lay across strings properly.
a trad version I bought from the Condes when I want to show off
do the ones sold by Felipe Conde work ok?
the peg fits the whole?
there are some on ebay, but they will be coming from the USA and I will probably have to pay import duties etc. Could be cheaper to buy from his webshop.
Anyone know if ones sold by "El Mundo Flamenco/London Guitar Studio" these days work ok?
Ok – it’s a matter of taste and certainly not a criminal offence to like these things. Even people who own orange guitars are walking free – so far anyway!
I guess the first Cejilla came soon after the introduction of frets – about 1700? If so, where are all the old retired ones? The first ones I bought in Spain in about 1960 were made of some kind of plastic - one imitation mother of pearl and a second one, transparent. They had no padding and the nylon cords made grooves in the neck. My 65 Conde has these grooves and I keep them as a badge of honour.
Does anyone have any information about early cejillas? There is plenty of stuff about the metal things developed outside of Spain.
you move the capo while playing? Must be a strange composition...
Unusual, but not unheard of in certain styles. Tommy Emmanuel has several compositions that require either pulling off the capo entirely (his Beatles medley for example) or changing frets in the middle of the song without missing a beat. I could imagine that kind of thing being useful when the cantaor catches you off guard and starts singing in a different key than expected. Not that that ever happens of course.
I know a guy who's kind of a country picker type and wrote a guitar song where he uses two capos and moves one of them back and forth through the song, even he admits it's a little gimmicky but the song is cool enough.
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