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Innovative Guitars
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Ricardo
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Joined: Dec. 14 2004
From: Washington DC
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RE: Innovative Guitars (in reply to sianturi)
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Why not use new high-tech materials to achiveve that? Yeah I know what you meant, I was just having some fun. There is a great book by Jose Ramirez III called "things about the guitar." He has a short chapter on Flamenco guitars but sums it up pretty clearly. Basically, he and other classical guitar makers, have been able to experiment and do a lot of fun things with guitar making for classical guitarists. But when it came to flamenco, he found it quite strange that the players were very hard to please even with very minor modifications to the standard model established in the early 1900's. Basically, he could not get any decent feedback from the players other than "this guitar is loud, or this guitar is good, but it is not flamenco...". And with only that to go on, he found more success with just doing it the traditional way. I am sure other makers who are into experimenting, have discovered the same. I admit as a player, I have thought a lot about the technical reasons, but in the end my hands tell me the same. The guitar is or is not "flamenco" enough by design. Sort of mysterious, but it might have to do with connecting with the tradition, the "old" sound and smell of things that are evoked by the sounds a good flamenco guitar produces. I honestly don't see anything changing from the basic pattern, anytime soon. Ricardo
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Date Feb. 19 2007 23:58:12
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