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RobF
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RE: Manolo Sanlucar documentary (in reply to Piwin)
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Maybe it took them too long, it just seems so...disconnected. Why on earth would someone spend €100 on a half hour DVD, and over €1000 for the set, no matter how well produced? Normally, the DVDs would accompany the written material except, of course, now-a-days DVDs aren’t even provided, instead there are links to download 4K videos. My DVD player isn’t even hooked up, and I certainly wouldn’t buy one at this point, it’s obsolete technology. It just seems dated and extremely expensive. It will be interesting to see what the written material will be priced at and how they manage to connect it with the videos. I can’t see someone spending over a thousand Euros on some older format videos and then ponying up what will likely be thousands more for the pages. I think the world has moved on from that. I’m not saying he is obsolete, but perhaps what he’s doing is. Maybe some schools, libraries, and archives will obtain copies. How many musicians will, when the cost will likely line up with that of a professional level guitar? Not many, I suspect. Perhaps Henry is right and this is targeting the text-book market but, even then, the format is obsolete and students would have the right to demand better. How many students even have access to a DVD player? Do compact laptops even have them anymore?
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Date Apr. 1 2021 15:31:45
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Piwin
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RE: Manolo Sanlucar documentary (in reply to agujetas)
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April fools? I wish! The prices indicated on the website don't include value-added tax, so when you "go to cart" it adds that to the price. In other words, the actual price is 1,167 euros + 21%. Anyway, I probably wouldn't have bought it at the 600 price, so there are even less chances that I'll buy it now. If ever there's a post-pandemic back-to-sort-of-stable world, I wouldn't be against getting a chapter or two, but the whole set is definitely beyond what I'm willing to pay for that kind of material. Like Rob said, that's enough to buy a guitar, or in my case, looking at what I need, a used car.
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Date Apr. 1 2021 18:26:03
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Piwin
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RE: Manolo Sanlucar documentary (in reply to agujetas)
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Me neither. I guess we're just not the target audience. What's worse: apparently what you get for that price is an "e-book", which in flamenco world probably means a PDF. It says they're going to print 1,300 hard copies "soon". If the target is academic institutions, even if all the places that deliver formal flamenco education bought one he'd still have 1,290 on his hand. OK, just kidding but it's probably not all that far off. edit: on the DVD side they do say this: "Cada capitulo artístico también está disponible con el enfoque en la manera de ejecutar la digitación. Y así mismo, quien desee adquirir los DVD o partituras de los temas correspondiente a la Obra podrán solicitarlo en info@manolosanlucar.com." That could mean something closer to Encuentro. If it's an actual half hour of material (and not 20 minutes talking and 10 minutes playing), and if the scores don't cost anything extra (granted, those are big "ifs"), then I could see your average player thinking one or two chapters might be worth trying. Well, pre-covid when people had jobs anyway.
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Date Apr. 21 2021 20:17:53
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