#burguet

[detournementsmineurs]

"Reliquaire Télé" d'Alexandre Burguet (2003) au Musée des Beaux-Arts, Palais de l'Evêché, Limoges, France, mai 2018.

[guitarfromspain]

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A closer look at the Amalio Burguet Vanessa classical guitar: spruce top Straight to the top: Amalio Burguet Vanessa with solid spruce soundboard The family jewels Luthier and musician Amalio Burguet has been in the guitar business for almost fifty years now. His highest calling (and possibly greatest achievement)? To transform ‘wood into pure art’. This noble maxim has evidently been…

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Amalio Burguet

Nothing elementary about the Amalio Burguet 2F flamenco guitar  Another string to our bow We’ve recently added one or two new makes and models to our catalogue here at GFS, in our quest to offer you an ever-more comprehensive collection of instruments and accessories. Amongst these are Abraham Luthier from the island of Tenerife (makers of the Canarian Timple and Venezuelan Cuatro), Saenz de la…

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[fretequity]

I'm putting these Titaniums on my Burguet spruce. This set was given to by Sean Samimi to try out. Thanks, Sean! This will be the first time I've tried something other than Hannabachs on this guitar, but I freely admit - I really liked the Hannabach Goldins because of the color. Yes, I'm that shallow. The trebles on this new set look almost lavender.

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Strings, Strings, and More Strings

I'll be using four different guitars for my upcoming recording project. Each guitar has different strings on it. And because I want them all to sound their best for this recording, guess who just bought a bunch of strings at juststrings.com?

Me. The answer is me.

Here's the rundown:

Guitar 1 - Carlos Ignacio Acosta (cedar, pictured in a previous post). This guitar uses a split set of strings, all Savarez. I still buy the same strings that were on the guitar when I bought it, because I like the sound very much.

The basses are Savarez Cristal Corum high tension.

The trebles are Savarez Classical Alliance blue-card high tension.

These strings are not available as split sets, so I buy the whole 6-string set for each type, use just the trebles from the Classical Alliance set, and just the basses from the Cristal Corum set.

The remaining Savarez strings that were not used on the Acosta are used on Guitar 3 - Manuel Contreras II Model C4 (cedar). I got lucky here - these strings sound great on this guitar, and this way, nothing is wasted.

Guitar 2 - Amalio Burguet Model 1A (spruce, also featured in a previous post). This guitar uses a different split set of strings. The trebles are Hannbach Goldins. I admit, I like the way they look but these strings, combined with the spruce top of the guitar, produce very nice high notes. Luckily, you can buy just the trebles as a set, rather than springing for the complete 6-string set.

For basses I use D'Addario Pro-Arte Composite hard tension polymers. They are only available (as far as I can find) individually, so I buy one E string, one A string and one D string separately, obviously all wound. These have lots of bass and some nice growl to them

Guitar 4 - Alhambra (I don't remember the model number, but it in the $700.00 range so it's at the lower end of their product line). This guitar gets those stalwart standby strings that all of us has used at one time or another - and several very accomplished artists swear by them - D'Addario Pro-Arte high tension strings. A good all-around sound and reliability make this an easy choice for Guitar 4.

That's the lineup. I am finishing up the demo version of the recording tonight with the old strings on all guitars. Then I start swapping them out for new strings in time for the recording next week.

[fretequity]

A nice looking site, by the makers of my daily driver.

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Another damn blog...

I could not find any good blogs about classical guitar, so I started one.

About me:

My name is Robert. I've been playing classical guitar for just under 4 years now after playing rock guitar and bass FOREVER before that. I'm just a guy trying to learn the fine art of classical guitar, while juggling a full-time job (or two).

I won't go into specifics about my age, but will admit to being what is known as an "adult beginner".

I practice when I can, and try not to be too hard on myself when it just doesn't happen.

My current main guitar is pictured here. It's an Amalio Burguet. It has good tone, but I bought it pretty soon after just starting to play, so I think I'm lucky that this one is as playable as it is.

I went through the classical guitar program at Pasadena City College and am now looking for the next step. It might be Pasadena Conservatory, but than again it might not. I've taken private lessons before and enjoyed that, so perhaps that is what will be next.

I'm also a bicycle enthusiast and I compose music - mostly for theater. When I am called for a money gig, I'm called as a bass player.

I enjoy playing in ensembles and am convinced that good can come from that, even though I am pressured by my mentors and instructors to focus on solo works.

So, this blog is for players. It's about what instruments we're playing, what we're working on, how much we practice, why today sucked, what strings are we trying this time around, etc.

Anyone can post anything, as long as it pertains to classical guitar.

And off we go...