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I have a few which I bought myself (Siroco, Zyryab, Luzia, and Montreux), Also Almoraima and Falla from my father. I bought a few ones from Leonard Cohen, and also my father has a bunch. I'll get more in the future.
I do not have a turntable yet though :) It's the only thing missing in my "music room". A few years ago my father and I decided to assemble hify equipment with hand-made things as much as possible. So we bought three pairs of speakers (high, mid, and low range), and then designed boxes for them and worked with a local carpenter to make them. We also had a local guy, a friend of my father, to build a custom valve amplifier. Also we have a hand-made custom wooden shelf for the amplifier, CD player, etc. I love how everything sounds, too bad I don't get to spend a lot of time at my parents and to transfer all that abroad would be quite expensive.
3 out of 4 as well, I bought every Paco Record I could find and many other (flamenco) records. Actually my first acquaintance with flamenco were the flamenco records/singles of the 50ties and 60ties being part of my father's record collection when I was about 10 years old. The first records I bought myself at the age of12 were the records of Paco de Lucia and Paco Peña. It took me years to find them all and found paradise when we had a school Tripp to Londen where I found myself a rocord store of 4 or 5 floors, unseen in the Netherlands. Between the age of 12-18 I played them many hours a day (playing along with them on my guitar). And secretly played them over and over again at night leaving me only 3 hours of sleep a day. In 1980 I switched to other music and instruments only to return to flamenco definitely in1985.
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I was given a library of LPs from a collector in UT as he was looking for someone to pass them on to. Probably over a thousand, if not more. But I'm just a temporary "keeper of keys" for the time being, still need to figure out the best place for them (he has already digitized all of them, I just have the physical copies now as well).
The Sabicas lps pretty much all came from same used record store in AZ, along with Fuente y Caudal which really blew me away when I got it 10 years ago or so. The Manitas I haven't listened to in years. I like the obscure 7" records I've gotten from Spain. The Porrinas came from El Flamenco Vive... they all play pretty darn well on my old system.
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