| Contact: TeyeLast Update: 21/02/2000Post Comment | A really good flamenco guitar, made in Spain, for less than a thousand dollars? IMPOSSIBLE! Or?
I am a flamenco guitarist, immigrant in the United States, who plays 200 - 250 shows a year. My guitars are of the highest possible quality (Gerundino Fernandez; Manuel Reyes; Lester Devoe), and on some occasions (an all-night outdoor fiesta for example) they are simply overshooting the job and it is a pity to use them. After many years of looking for a cheaper alternative that would feel and play like the guitars mentioned above, that would sound good and inspiring, and that would cost a fraction, I finally found one in Sevilla, Spain. After bringing it to the USA, all my friends and students wanted one, too. So now I am importing them. The guitar is more or less the size and feel of a Manuel Reyes; the materials used are: Soundboard: choice of German Spruce, or American Cedar Neck: Spanish Cedar Fingerboard: Ganadillo (the hardest of all rosewoods) Sides and back: Sicamoro The tuners are machines. Wooden pegs are also available, but not all the time. |
