Issue 53 - July 28th, 2014

I would like to invite you to be part of this Weekly Magazine by raising questions and giving me suggestions through e-mail so this magazine can become a good material for all flamenco lovers, researchers and musicians. Enjoy it!

Contents

Paco de Lucia playing with a Jose Ramirez cypress guitar

B.-Questions and Answers

Please take a look at the following interview:

El Pais (newspaper) & Paco de Lucia

QUESTION: Which is your main guitar?

ANSWER PACO DE LUCIA: I have many different guitars and very good ones actually, but I always have one with me, It's like a woman you live with but who you don't really like much, because I really do not like this guitar too much(Paco's Conde 1975), but on the other hand I know how this particular guitar will respond to me on stage. The saying `best known evil than an unknown good` applies here. In fact at home my guitar is a rough and hard to play, when I'm relaxed at my place I can't play this guitar at all, but when adrenaline is there (on the stage) I need a certain comfortable pulsacion of which I get used to, and that's why I use it for playing on stage. Link from "El Pais" Newspaper http://www.elpais.com.uy/divertite/musica/guitarra-desagradecida.html

On the following video you can see Allan Holdsworth http://www.rdiaz.org/rdfoto40.html a composer I personally admire a lot for his originality and ways to innovate, although a master of very different style of music, he explains how he is always in the search for improvements on his gear as well as the great importance it has for the guitar makers to listen, receive and implement the valuable feedback of master guitar players regarding the instruments they make, I identify a lot with him for many reasons and here is the video for you to enjoy

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