Spanish Guitar The rich Mediterranean heritage brought a variety of different string instruments, and among them, on the Iberian peninsula – the Spanish guitar. The today’s guitar emerged after more…
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Spanish Guitar Construction
The Guitar Wood
Of course, the most important thing on the guitar is the quality of the wood itself. On both classical and the flamenco guitar, the front board is always made from…
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How To Choose The Guitar
I have received many questions about how to choose the guitar properly, from students that are buying the nylon strings guitar for the first time. Let me first say that…
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Making A Flamenco Guitar From A Cheap Classical Guitar
Presuming that you got a good sounding classical guitar, we can now get start making flamenco guitar from it, and perfecting it further. As you probably know, the guitar’s main…
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Equal Temperament
Equal Temperament is a necessity that naturally came to the tonality, during its development. During the Baroque period, there was already a need for it. But the short Rococo and…
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Pickguard – Golpe Protection Plate
Pickguard Golpe Protection Plate is one very important thing to have, to protect the front board when playing. Putting a pickguard, or a “golpeador” on it, will protect the wood,…
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Guitar Capo – la Cejilla
Guitar Capo is the easiest way to change the tonality when accompanying singers. There are many varieties of capos today, but they are not all good. The traditional flamenco capo…
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The Masterpiece Is Born
When a Masterpiece Is Born, the majority of these specialized tools are used for its creation. And almost all these tools were made exclusively for guitar construction. My friend and…
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Ramirez Guitars
Ramirez guitars are among the instruments with the longest tradition. There are many good “guitarreros” – “guitar constructors”, in Spain today, and there will probably be a whole video section…
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