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RE: "Guitar needs to be played" myth?
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Anders Eliasson
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RE: "Guitar needs to be played&... (in reply to n85ae)
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Your guitar will tell YOU when you've found her sweet spot. Oooouuuhh... And that s something that really turns me on. My opinion on the subject. Yes guitars improve by being played. When they are brand new, they change all the time and can be difficult to judge, especially if you try it on a bad day. Per Halgreen wrote some lines about it in his photoessay that I really liked: "All new guitars are like an opera primadonna. One day it is fantastic, the other day it is like it did not sleep well in the night and has headache and sore throat... I guess there is a lot to happen in a newly strung guitar. The wood need to stretch and find the balance within the instrument". I totally agree. It takes a while to settle. Then later over a period of a year it slowly devellops its sound especially in the high register. When played regularely, the instrument normally stays more or less stable. humidity changes change the sound of the instrument, and when left for a long time without being played, it normally needs to wakened up again. Some guitars, especial very powerfull ones need a certatin time every day you play them in order to sound well. Some 10 - 15 min is not strange. This is very clear with violins, where some of the very good ones can be quite grumpy, if you let them sleep to long. Some guitars can be the same, with nasal basses for the first half an hour. I can be the same way.
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Date Jan. 27 2008 20:23:21
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Ricardo
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RE: "Guitar needs to be played&... (in reply to Francisco)
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Would you try this for a negra (indian rosewood)? When I first received my HSL F03, it had that freshly built smell even though it was built 2 years before I bought it. The smell has slowly disappeared. If I did give this a try, how wet should the towel be? Where would you put it exactly? How long should the wet cloth be left in? doesn't hurt to try. Keep a dry polish cloth over the sound hole. I just get a paper towel wet and squeeze it out so it is damp. Then keep it in the case with the guitar. I check it, and depending on how much the case lets air in and out, the paper towel will dry out. When it is dry, I get it wet again, and keep checking. After a few days, the guitar smells real nice, at least if you like the smell of whatever wood. I like cypress and maple much more than Indian Rosewood smell. For some folks talking about the guitar changing over time myth, like it is psychological or your individual playing changes, sure that happens. I would say your playing changes more quick than the guitar itself. My personal experience and feeling on the matter is involving instruments that ARE NOT MINE. Meaning I played a friend's guitar for just a little while. Then 2 years later I tried it again and it was a different instrument all together in terms of it's sound. It had NOTHING to do with my own playing technique on that instrument, I spent no significant time adapting to it. It was just a very noticeable change of the instrument itself. Sometimes I have noticed a guitar getting a better sound AND becomes easier to play. And this has happened to me with more than one friend/student and their guitars. And yeah, I have noticed how guitars owned by friends/students that do NOT get played by their owners very much (again NOT ME), that the instruments do NOT shape up with time. So from my point of view, there really is something to it. About real science involved, Ramirez talks in his book about the crystalization of the finish and how a good player helps activate this process or speeds it up. Beyond that it still seems mysterious to me. Ricardo
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Date Feb. 3 2008 20:18:41
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