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Jose Lopez Bellido stopped building ...
I am selling my jose Lopez Bellido 1987, An intrested guy came to visit me yesterday, (did not have the money though), and told me Jose Lopez Bellido stopped building a while ago, because he won the lottery. He was familiar with the Bellido family. Several million euro! Congratulated Mr. J.L. Bellido, you earned it.
RE: Jose Lopez Bellido stopped build... (in reply to gerundino63)
When I visited Jose Lopez Bellido in 2010 he told me he was no longer building guitars because of problems with his back. (If I recall correctly, this was also confiirmed by his brother Jesús.)
On that same trip I was told (by Pimientito) that Manuel Díaz across the street had won the big lottery twice... which seems far-fetched, so now I'm wondering if there's a tradition of telling stories (or jokes) about the guitarreros of Cuesta de Gomérez 'winning the lottery'.
RobF knows maestro Díaz quite well, so perhaps he can clarify this.
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RE: Jose Lopez Bellido stopped build... (in reply to Estevan)
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RobF knows maestro Díaz quite well, so perhaps he can clarify this.
What is it with the lotteries there? I was was bugging a friend of mine about how much he and his brother spend on tickets at €20 a pop, which they buy all over the place and with alarming frequency. His explanation was winter was coming so there’d be less work and therefore he was going to need the money!! Financial planning 101.
I don’t really know the older Diaz that well, more just in passing from popping in on him whenever I visit. I know his two sons better. Both are good makers with their own shops (Victor is quite creative, has interesting ideas, and does very clean work). My friend Jack, who is a guitar maker in Georgia, is a lot closer to the family and would likely know for sure. I’ve also heard the stories that the father has won more than once.
Must be something in the water in the Realejo. Some kind of lucky mineral or the like. I expect our John Ray is due for his windfall any day now…
RE: Jose Lopez Bellido stopped build... (in reply to RobF)
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What is it with the lotteries there?
The odds are relatively high. In the usual "pick 6 numbers out of 49" format, your odds of winning first prize are around 1 in 14 million. In the Spanish Christmas lottery, it's 1 in 100,000. Still very unlikely of course, but less unlikely than most other lotteries.
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