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See also, "A meeting with Julian Bream in 1969 led to an invitation to use part of a workshop in Wiltshire where he produced a guitar for Julian Bream that he played for three years. In 1973 he made a guitar for him which he played in concerts and used for various recordings for at least twelve years. Romanillos now works from his own premises and his waiting list for instruments stretches into the next century. He is an internationally respected luthier and quoting the Daily Mail, 'the Stradivari of the Guitar'. " from http://www.ausbcomp.com/~frets/smrom.htm Bream actually owned several Romanillo's and collaborated with him on guitar design, so this would take some careful research to track down. There is an article on one of Bream's 1973 Romanillos, but it is not commonly available for review except perhaps through ILL from an academic library. I haven't found any research to show these became played out or that Bream thought they were played out. |
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I don't really have a dog in this hunt. I used to play more classical, and amongst the other classical players I knew, it was a pretty well accepted notion that classical guitars "lose it" after a period of time. It's entirely possible that it is a wives' tale, although there seemed to be some practical experience that supported it. I never really had a hard time believing it; many performance-quality classical guitars are built as lightly as possible to maximize volume and projection, and as you mentioned are subjected to rigors that many steel stringers are not. 6-10 hours of play a day, demanding environmental conditions with touring and the like. It's funny what different classical musicians believe about their instruments. Many violinists think that instruments less than 100 years old are not worthy of playing. Many harpists think that a 10 year old harp is rubbish, and couldn't possibly play as well as a new one. There are some realities behind what they think, but I think a lot of it is conjecture as well. Like most things about guitars... I put this one in the category of plausible but unproven.
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I've seen how expensive harps are. I'd hate for that notion to be true if I was a harpist. |
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Here is Tatyana Ryzhkova playing a restored Hauser from 1916. ^ don't know why the video wont work but it's worth a look. Last edited by redir; 07-02-2014 at 10:07 AM. |
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"And Ramirez himself said that a guitar was worth about 20 years."
Which Ramirez? I'll still go with first hand information rather than parroted pablum. |
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"Every guitar and player is different. Some may take 500 years to play out, "
Not many 500 year old (6 string) guitars in existence, and I can't think of a single 500 year old player. |
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"Here is Tatyana Ryzhkova playing a restored Hauser from 1916."
Was the guitar restored in 1916 ? Or is Tatyana playing this in 1916? Or did you mean: Here is Tatyana Ryzhkova playing a restored 1916 Hauser? Curious. |
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"isn't your direct source actually second hand information?"
Yes, as a matter of fact from a first hand, direct, source over 40 plus years. If you were in his house and studio, you would know. If you watched/heard him play you would know. Hundreds of documents and photos, if not more. |
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Heavens above guys. This is an internet forum, not an academic peer reviewed journal. Most people post something that they remember reading, not a footnoted citation. Its not as though vast wealth rests on the outcome of whether a classical guitar "wears out" or not. Lets not get too anal about this.
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Jose III in his book 'Things About the Guitar.' Hey if it sounds good then play it.
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I'm pretty sure they didn't have motion picture in 1916 especially in color. The guitar was built by Hauser in 1916. It was restored on some unspecified date and then Tatyana was recorded playing it. I think it sounds great, different, but that's probably because it's a very different guitar.
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