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Classical And Flamenco Guitars

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This is a little question that I see popping up around the internet, so I thought we could look at what these guitars are for and how they differ from each other. The flamenco and classical guitars are made from two distinct types of wood to give their respective musics their individual sounds. The flamenco guitar, until the nineteen seventies, had a thin, biting sound which was vastly different from the deep sound of the classical guitar. As the new wave of flamenco guitarists like Serranito and Paco De Lucia experimented with new ideas in flamenco, they also chose to modify the harsh flamenco sound, so today’s flamenco guitar has a deeper sound than one made in the fifties or sixties.

Here is Vicente Amigo playing a modern flameno guitar showing off the advance state of vituosity of twenty-first century flamenco guitar playing:

The flamenco guitar is made to accompany flamenco singers and dancers. Even though there are now many solo guitarists whose music is based in flamenco, your average guitar player will find the action too low and the sound too thin for playing other kinds of music.

The classical guitar has a more resonant sound. These guitars have been made expressly for playing classical music with the classical guitar player’s technique in mind. Even though the sound of the classical guitar is ideal for solos, many acoustic guitar players from other genres prefer the sound of the steel string acoustic.

Here is David Russell playing Fantasia by Alonso Mudarra, modern-sounding piece composed in the sixteenth century:


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