I have a new website! In fact I have two now. An English one and a Dutch version.
This means new RSS feeds as well as email subscriptions. Blogrolls need to be updated. I’m sorry for that.
Ik heb een nieuwe website! Ik heb er zelfs twee. Een Engelse en een Nederlandse.
Dit betekent nieuwe RSS feeds en e-mail abonnementen. Ook eventuele blogrolls moeten worden bijgewerkt. Hiervoor uiteraard mijn excuses.
Jerry Albrecht bought a 2A flamenco guitar and asked me if I could elaborate a little on the differences between a classical and a flamenco guitar. I guess this might be interesting for other guitarists as well.
Traditionally a flamenco guitar has cypress back and sides, a lower action than its classical counterpart and a slightly different neck angle. Also the top is a little thinner than the one of a classical guitar. To protect the top from damage of the golpes, flamenco guitars have tap plates – the so called golpeadores. Traditionally wooden pegs were used for tuning but nowadays more and more people use tuning machines because this is easier tuning. Flamenco guitars with rosewood back and sides are called ‘flamenca negra’.
The 2A guitars are made in the Picado workshop. The guitars are made by hand after my design. They are made in small series, and varnished in stead of french polished. The guitar which can be heard and seen on the youtube video is a 2A flamenco guitar.
Two winners of competitions in the last two weeks.
Sanel Redzic won the first prize of the competition of the Guitarmania Festival in Lisabon, Portugal. He is doing great! Winning competitions al the time and giving concerts al over the place. Congratulations Sanel! For the guitar facts likers among us, Sanel plays a cedar/coco bolo guitar, built in 2010. See more of him on youtube.
I make twelve hole bridges. Less wear of the bridge and a better fixation of the strings angle are the reasons why. Some people have difficulties putting on new strings on a twelve hole bridge. Especially for them I made these video’s.
This is Gustavo Pazos, trying his 7- string guitar for the first time.
I’m looking forward to the CD he’s preparing.
Besides to classical guitarists I also sell my instruments to musicians playing other styles. One of them is Leonardo Amudeo. He is a fantastic player and sought after by people like Ivan Lins, Trijntje Oosterhuis and Antonio Serrano, just to name a few. You can listen to excerpts of the cd shown above at i-tunes.
Guitar Salon International is my USA dealer. They put a small series on you tube of Scott Wolf playing the same piece on a ‘bunch of guitars’. I think he does a very good job.
This is Esther. I think she is a great guitarist but I am not the most objective person on this matter cause I married her. Today exactly 20 years ago. That’s what I call a good cause to put her on my site even though she is a little uncomfortable with it.
But she agrees she can’t be left out of my list of guitarists playing my instruments. So here she is. Beautifully playing Bach on a fifth bass guitar I made in 1994.
Last month Tariq Harb sent me this beautiful Regondi excerpt together with some questions about his 1996 built, spruce top guitar he just bought at the Grand Guitar Salon in Montreal. In case you have the same questions, these are my answers. In case you have other ones: don’t hesitate to ask.
Is it built using traditional construction? If so, are there 7 fan struts or more/less?
The guitar is built quite traditional with 5 fan struts.
Do you generally follow the Torres model, or any other model? Do you still use the same method of construction for your new guitars?
My instruments have changed over the years. I am always looking for something better of course. But although my model is a little different at the moment, I use the same traditional way of building. Not exactly the same as Torres but still based on it.
