Flamenco Guitar – A Classical Acoustic Guitar
August 1st, 2010 | Author: guitarman
The Flamenco guitar is an Acoustic Guitar similar to the Classical guitar , but of lighter structure, with a cypress body and spruce top. However, good quality Spanish-or, more accurately, Mediterranean-cypress is hard to find, and quite costly. Tuning pegs like those of a violin are traditional, although many contemporary Flamenco guitars have machine heads.
A distinctive feature of all Flamenco guitars is the tapping plates or golpeadores affixed to the table, to protect them against the taps with the fingernails that are a necessary feature of the flamenco style.
While nowadays a lot of modern soloists play what is called a flamenca negra, a hybrid of the Flamenco and Classical guitar constructions. The differences between classical and flamenco guitars lie in their materials, construction and sound.
Materials: Classical guitars are in general made with spruce or cedar tops and rosewood or mahogany backs and sides to heighten sustain. Flamenco guitars are mostly made with spruce tops and cypress or sycamore for the backs and sides to enhance volume and emphasize the lash out of the note.
Construction: Flamenco guitars are commonly deeper and the woods are somewhat thicker. They have a flat neck relief, making the action very fast at the cost of some buzzing. The strings are also nearer to the body on Flamenco guitars to facilitate tapping. This is called “low action” of a guitar.
The space between the 1st and the 6th strings in a Classical guitar is 57mm, 58mm and 59mm. Most Flamenco guitars have a distance of 64mm.
Sound: A well-made Flamenco guitar responds rapidly and typically has less sustain than a Classical guitar. This is wanted, since the flurry of notes that a good Flamenco player can produce would sound very murky on a guitar with a big, lush, sustaining sound.
The Flamenco guitar’s sound is frequently described as percussive; it tends to be brighter, drier and more austere, and have less overtones, than that of a Classical guitar’s.
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