Mauro Giuliani - Etude opus 100 n°13 - Affetuoso

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Comment by Tonyyyy on January 26, 2011 at 23:20

Lovely - I envy you such a sweet sounding guitar

Comment by Valéry Sauvage on January 25, 2011 at 7:26

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have an older one, this one is from around 1820, the other betxween 1795 and 1805, according to an expert, Erik-Pierre Hofmann. Both are very light builded, specially this one. In fact this one is not top notch construction, more a little craftman in Italy, but sound very nice, clear and loud too. Very simples bars on the soundboard. (I think I post a photo of it on this forum). The other is more sophisticated luthery, from Mirecourt school. Just a littel bit heavier, with a warm sound. I play with low tension strings, nylgut on this one, gut on the other, so we can have a good sound whithout nails and with a "lute like" technic, what is impossible with high tesion modern strings and guitars. I did not try modern copies of romantic guitars, but I think it should be builded on the same basis as old ones, and some modern lutemakers are making moderns guitars in form of older ones, so that sounds like modern one. For me it is of no interest. But now many lutemakers, making lutes or baroque guitars are making accurate copies of old romantics and they sounds nice. Some modern makers like Michael Thames are also making nice copies of Lacote or Ponce. I saw some copies (cheap ones) made in Mexico and I wonder how they are made (I mean in term of accurate construction)... ??? But nice looking for the Panormo copy.

;-)

Val

Comment by Frei on January 24, 2011 at 22:39

Nice Valery, do you think modern builds compare in sound to the older models youve played, this one must be one of the earliest guitars youve had your hands on. What are the main differences between new and older guitars in terms of sound, feel? Thanks