windmill wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:44 pm
You might have to add some cash if you want to trade it for a R9 Les Paul.
Looks the goods
How loud is it ?
Never been a Les Paul guy, wouldn't trade any of my guitars 1:1 for an R9 unless I was allowed to sell it and buy offsets instead
It's making its way from Germany to Canada at the moment, so I can't yet comment on volume. I suspect it will be quieter than my modern classical guitar, with less bass and more focus on note fundamentals (basic characteristics of the era). The tone of a classical guitar is so highly dependent on technique and string composition that the same instrument in someone else's hands easily sounds vastly different in my own, but
here is a video by the gentleman who sold it me, a very talented musician by the name of Polivios.
BoringPostcards wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 4:57 pm
Wow, that's something I'd love to try. I've never really played a quality classical style guitar of any kind. Only the basic cheap modern ones.
I love playing on nylon strings.
Classical guitars are one of those deep rabbit holes, where the sky is the limit in terms of playing experience and tone, but they get expensive fast. I remember, when I was still on my $300 La Patrie beginner guitar, my teacher let me play his guitar, which cost $5k or so in 90's bucks, and it absolutely floored me. You could hardly even call them the same instrument. I now own a "similar league" guitar, but have played modern builds pushing the envelope of design and workmanship with things like double-tops (two thin wood layers sandwiched by a graphite lattice) costing 4-5 times as much, and the sheer volume, responsiveness and magnificence of tone that leap out of those instruments is astounding. You could get lost just playing arpeggios and listening to the notes ring out.
Modern classical guitars seem to suffer the least from diminishing returns of any type of guitar...the more you're willing or able to shell out, the more you can really expect to be amazed. But this guitar kinda exists outside that paradigm; it cost a lot less than I'd expect it to, partly because the old designs and tone aesthetics are highly unfashionable in the classical guitar world right now. Few people want to hear Sor played on the type of guitar he played himself. They want to hear it on the loudest, most brilliant, most bassy, most harmonically complex instrument they can (and I get it...those guitars do sound wonderful).
It's kinda like how nobody wants to hear a P Bass run through a '59 Bassman at 200-person gig anymore, even if the band is playing stuff from '59. They want to hear it through a massive FOH system with subwoofers that can shake the floor.
But a '59 P bass still sounds pretty damn cool through a '59 Bassman, and this is a similar type of thing. Hearing the way these songs sounded at the time they were written is not something I've ever had the opportunity to do before.
Maggieo wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 5:32 pm
I love how much history is in that instrument.
It literally sets my heart racing. I can't imagine the number of people who have played this before me. The music they played on it, what their lives were like. The man who built it was literally rewarded with a title - by a king - for being good at his job, in a country that hasn't even
had a king for over a century. It's mind-boggling.
North Americans don't get to interact with pieces of history like that on a regular basis. It's awesome.
