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Finally I found a good player to record my beloved first, which is pretty decent sounding for a first. It is the first guitar I built entirely from scratch, but before it I retoped a guitar twice so for several operations I wasn't exactly in the dark.

Anyway, the guitar is built in the style of Antonio de Torres. The top is Italian Alpine spruce, back and ribs of Spanish cypress, cedar neck, Madagascar RW bridge.

While not built and voiced as a flamenco, it seems to work quite decently with flamenco as well. Compared to my friends real flamenco guitar and his large bodied Madrid style RW classical, mine sounded somewhere in between.

The pieces are:
Welscher Tanz and Der Hupff Auff by Hans Neusidler, 1508 - 1563.

and some Flamenco. He just begun studying flamenco, so he is not Paco de Lucia yet.
Still not a half bad Sevillans attempt.

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Beautiful guitar Alex and even prettier sound !!

well done my friend!

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Reguards,

Ken H

Beautiful guitar Alex. A very nice recording, the sound is smooth and clear with traditional spanish character, congratulations on making a fine guitar.

Thanks thanks thanks! This forum helped me *immensely*...

With all modesty, but the player wants me to build him one too. This would be my 3rd commission in 3 months so i can't be happier. The guy prefers the sound of a larger body modern classical though, and thinks these small guitars are a bit too forward or cutting for his style. Wants me to build him one of them near-OM sized monsters. I told him better wait and hear my next - which is a tiny little bit larger than my first - I switched to a second epoch plantilla and I will add about 1cm of depth at the tail to match a Romanillos. The top is heavier Lutz and the back Indian RW. I can't wait to finish it.....

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Those are great clips Alex. The guitar sounds great. Excellent balance and very good separation.

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Waddy

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Sound Clips of most of my guitars

Might consider a '76 Miguel Rodriguez Jr.' plan, these are very big classicals and great sounding guitars

Very nice clean sound Alex, you should be very happy with your guirae.

Colin

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