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I am attaching this link because I want to broadcast Stephen Hill to you. He made a negra for me in 2001 and it's grown into a fantastic, powerful growling flamenco machine gun. This is recorded straight into the camcorder with no tampering. Bags of energy, bright, crisp, earthy and powerful. I have a few top guitars and I pulled this one out recently after a few months in her case. I changed the strings and Pow!
Hi Jim, Loved the clip! I liked most when it broke into Tangos! Very nice playing! It sounds a great and powerful guitar, and what I noticed most was how it responded to different techniques.Gentle, Rippling, Aggressive etc.. So at the end of the day, all a great Luthier can provide is an instrument which has a large pallette of tone colours. So the overall sound still is in the hands of the player if you see what I mean. A cheap guitar is useless and will make you lose interest in what you are trying to achieve IMO. Very good guitars are not that expensive, considering the price of many other things going in folk's lives. In fact, very reasonable indeed. It's just folk's priorities really...
cheers
Ron
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Very nice playing and the guitar sounds great. I think when I first got into flamenco, a friend of the family was a classical guitarist and brought over his authentic flamenco guitar. That was the first REAL flamenco guitar I ever played on. I spent a few hours with it. It was a Stephen Hill negra not unlike yours, though I am sure it was probably lower end model. Since I had no experience at the time, all I can say for sure was that it was really responding to rasgueados and thumb work unlike the classical guitar I had been learning on. He was willing to sell but at the time I was still saving money.
Ricardo, the way you play that must have been some time ago. Stephen Hill has really only been making for about 10 years or so here in the UK and recently in Spain having moved there last year. Could it have been another maker?
Sorry! no tab, I find it really hard to get things from paper, I've got to work hard at it and it doesn't go in for some reason I heard something similar years ago played by Philip John Lee, the 'Indian bit', and it stuck. I used an improvised version on that video to open Tangos.
Ricardo, the way you play that must have been some time ago. Stephen Hill has really only been making for about 10 years or so here in the UK and recently in Spain having moved there last year. Could it have been another maker?
It was about 10 years ago. OH shoots, maybe it was Kenny Hill????? Man the memory is going already.
Maybe he should change his name to stephen hill CONTRERAS, or stephen hill RODRIGUEZ to avoid confusion.
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that must have been some time ago. 
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