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a very strange look guitar i came across this morning hahahaha,
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Guitarra Española MANUEL Pérez Paez , del año 2006, aros y fondo de cipres macizo , tapa de pino macizo , este artesano por desgracia ya a fallecido , por lo cual sus guitarras cada año se revalorizan más , es una Guitarra ideal para coleccionistas , se puede probar sin compromiso alguno , dispongo de un pequeño vídeo , el sonido es el típico de guitarra antigua con muchos graves y no tantos armónicos como las de ahora , se puede enviar , precio definitivo .
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" panish guitar MANUEL Pérez Paez, from 2006, hoops and solid cypresses background, solid pine top, this artisan unfortunately already deceased, for which his guitars are revalued every year, it is an ideal guitar for collectors, it can be try without any commitment, I have a small video, the sound is typical of old guitar with many bass and not as many harmonics as now, you can send, final price. "
Price 599 Euros
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The stylized shape of a true Egyptian belly dancer, as opposed to the film fantasy.
Bill
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And the end of the fight is a tombstone white, With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph drear, "A fool lies here, Who tried to hustle the East."
It looks like a woman's butt, where you guys seeing dicks in that? That is "side boob". Gee I have to point out sexist cliche' to flamenco dudes......... hahaha
Apparently, even guitars have one slightly larger than the other. The plot thickens.
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"Anything you do can be fixed. What you cannot fix is the perfection of a blank page. What you cannot fix is that pristine, unsullied whiteness of a screen or a page with nothing on it—because there’s nothing there to fix."
Gerundino had a go at making a new shape in the 1980's. He was quite open about the fact that he had used a woman's body as the inspiration. It just goes to show what can happen to someone spending many lonely hours working with hand tools and breathing in wood dust and solvents.
I had the opportunity to play one of these a few years ago. It felt heavy and clumsy.
Rob
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Gerundino’s “la guitarra de formato”. I think he made just for 4 of them (one was given to Paco Pena, the others gifted to his children) and one of them is actually for sale. I never tried one of them but Paco Pena said it sounds exactly the same as a conventional Gerundina, which is quite odd. The report of this story and of similar experiment (both failed) can be read in a small book written by Gerundino’s nephew.
When I bought mine, he showed one of these experiments. Neither he nor I were not convinced that they sounded better, but he was adamant that they were not for sale. Time changes anything
The report of this story and of similar experiment (both failed) can be read in a small book written by Gerundino’s nephew.
This book is titled "Gerundino Fernández: biografía de un guitarrero", by Paco Urrutía and published by the Univeridad de Almería, 2007. I imagine that it would be hard to find. Paco is sobrino, but more correctly "sobrino carnal por línea materna".
Hi, I have the book and it’s nice and with some interesting infos and anecdotes. Nonetheless more about Gerundino himself than the guitars he made. I got interested in Gerundino after I bought my first Gerundina, 20 years ago. Fascinating sad story. I’m happy his son is said to be very good in guitarmaking.
Yes I agree, looks like a mid-riff bulged woman, sitting with her back to us. Don't see the resemblance to a males sexual organ. Guess it's all the eyes of the one gazing at the guitar, like one of those psychiatric ink splotches, it's all in the eyes of the beholder.
Gerundino’s “la guitarra de formato”. I think he made just for 4 of them (one was given to Paco Pena, the others gifted to his children) and one of them is actually for sale.
I’ve always thought of it as the guitar with Mickey Mouse ears.
Here’s Paco playing it in August ’82:
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