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RE: new build for a 1987 Reyes style flamenco
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Tom Blackshear
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RE: new build for a 1987 Reyes style... (in reply to Tom Blackshear)
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You know what it feels like when you think you've finished with a project, and it compels you to try again to make it better. Well, this happened the other day with me. The sound was not necessarily the issue so much as the articulation for right and left hand feel. I worked a little toward the middle 4th strut and got it more balanced for this sensation, especially for the left hand ligado, and rasgeado. The feel now, reminds me more of a Pedro de Miguel guitar but with a more sensitive sound and character. So, I've got to stop now, otherwise, if I lose this new articulation, it's possible that I could fail to get it back. I could post another sound test but it might not actually change the tonal value so much as the feel I get from this new adjustment. Let me know what you think. In any case , Carlos Rodriguez Quiros will be here in a couple of weeks and he will give his impression of the Guitar.
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Date Nov. 25 2019 16:18:43
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Richard Jernigan
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RE: new build for a 1987 Reyes style... (in reply to Tom Blackshear)
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After I´ve had a chance to get familiar with Tom's guitar for a while I will post my impressions. I bought it for the same reason I have bought a few others. I heard and felt something in it that I had not experienced before. We compared Tom's #329, a spruce/Indian '87 Reyes model, to the '82 Arcangel Fernandez blanca, and the '67 Ramirez 1a blanca. I like these two better than any flamencas I have gotten acquainted with over the years, with the possible exception of a couple in Richard Brune's collection (not for sale--if they were I probably couldn't afford either of them). Tom's guitar is certainly in the same class as the two blancas, but it has its own unique personality. Tom's guitar is very different from the only Reyes I have had the chance to get to know pretty well, a '75 blanca that belonged to a good friend. I liked my Ramirez better than that guitar. My impression so far is that I certainly wouldn't say the Ramirez is better (for me) than Tom's guitar. Tom and I agree that once a guitar achieves a certain level of quality, it doesn't make much sense to say one is "better" than the other. They are just different, like two different vintages of a great wine. One player may like "A" better than "B", but another player might like "B" better than "A," depending on his technique and whatever that ideal guitar sound may be that he has in his head. I got back from San Antonio to Austin at 7:30 last night, had a bowl of clam chowder and some crackers. The guitar was interesting enough to stay up until 2 AM playing it and the two blancas. More in a week or two. RNJ
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Date Dec. 11 2019 21:56:03
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Richard Jernigan
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From: Austin, Texas USA
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RE: new build for a 1987 Reyes style... (in reply to tri7/5)
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quote:
ORIGINAL: tri7/5 quote:
ORIGINAL: BarkellWH Richard, I may be mistaken, but isn't this the second guitar you have bought from Tom? I seem to recall about two or three years ago you went to San Antonio and bought another guitar from Tom. If this is the second, it really speaks well for Tom's creations. On the other hand, I may be getting dotty in my old age. Bill I also thought so too... believe it was the Miguel Rodriguez flamenco style? I am sure Richard will confirm. Curious how they compare. Yes, I bought a cedar/Indian "Miguel Rodriguez" model classical from Tom a couple of years ago. It's definitely not a flamenca. Having heard it on the Foro, I drove down to San Antonio with the money in my pocket. I took my Abel Garcia spruce/Brazilian classical to compare. In person the "Rodriguez" model sounded even better than on the Foro, and I liked the feel of it, so I bought it. Tom asked to compare #329, a "1987 Reyes" model negra, to my Arcangel Fernandez. I took the cedar/cypress Ramirez along as well, since I think it's a great guitar. (I wouldn't say that about all the 1960s Ramirez blancas I have played, but I really like mine.) I was not at all thinking of buying an instrument, and told Tom so before I drove to San Antonio, but #329 certainly measured up to the two blancas, and has a sound and feel unlike any other guitar I have gotten to know. I repeated what I had told Tom before: The last time I went to Paracho I told myself it was just for old time's sake--I wasn't going to buy any guitars. In the event, I only bought two. I have since given one of the Paracho guitars away to the Austin Classical Guitar Society. It is an Arturo Huipe cedar/cocobolo "Fleta" model. I would say it is on the borderline between a very good conservatory guitar and a lesser concert instrument. I liked Huipe, and I thought it was a good guitar for the money. The Guitar Society in turn gave it to a student after she borrowed it to audition successfully for Adam Holzman's guitar program here at the University. I am not inclined to sell or otherwise dispose of any of the guitars I now own, except for a 1991 Manuel Contreras Sr. spruce/Brazilian. It's a very good guitar, maybe even a great one, but I don't play it much. Its default tone quality may be excellent for a concert hall (the Romeros played Contreras for a while before they switched to Miguel Rodriguez), but in my medium sized practice room it doesn't appeal to me as much as my other classicals do. As I told Tom, and said above, I will have more to say about #329 in a week or two, after I have made its acquaintance. RNJ
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