I personally like to have one dot at 7 on the side. Most of the time I play with my eyes closed but for long runs I like to look when necessary and that one dot helps me a lot.
I built a classical guitar once that was for sale in my shop and a student from the local university came in looking for a guitar. He really liked this guitar but said that he had to take it to 'master' first, his distinguished university professor who apparently needed to sign off on all his students guitars. He came back a week later and said he could not buy the guitar because it had a dot on the side. Of course it is easy enough to just remove it but still.
The student went on to tell me that a lot of his students will put a drip of white out on the guitar and simply remove it when they have to perform for master.
It was amusing... But the point being that the classical guitar genre is as they say in Kentucky 'all ate up' about tradition.
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