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Several "facts" about flamenco guitars sound quite dubious and lack external citation. For example, the claim that "less than 3 mm action at 12-th fret is common" seems quite exaggerated. Depends very much on the luthier and how much volume he was shooting for! Lower action is good for the left hand but reduces volume, and some flamenco guitars can be quite loud. Also very exaggerated is the claim that even with the protective plate, tapping almost always destroys the instrument. What nonsense! This may have been the case when flamenco guitarists played without sound reinforcement and needed to get the tapping across the noise, but today good instruments can last for 20 - 30 years and more. For example, Roberto Castellon owns a flamenco guitar made in the 60's which is still in playable shape, and without the golpaedor. How many years is that - around 50! Also very important is the tapping technique. There is of course a way to generate pretty loud taps without even scratching the instrument, but these are typically unknown to dilettantes. So please refrain from sweeping generalizations, that way it is very easy to write something that is not correct.
I couldn't find this page. Please help expand it.
02:37, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
I'll give it a shot ;P Lovok 16:42, 12 July 2006 (UTC) When I get home, I'll probably try and mirror the classical guitar page for the flamenco, but only what needs changing. I'll also poke around the 'net see if I can find more technical information than just me and my flamenco instructor ^^ Lovok 17:37, 12 July 2006 (UTC)
Here's a picture of a flamenco guitar I'll try and upload later. http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/4/2/7/269427.jpg Lovok 11:08, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
As an Andalusian who has played flamenco guitar and piano in several flamenco groups I have to indicate that flamenco is not an improvisational musical form when it comes to play the so-called falsetas, which are the most relevant part of the flamenco guitar music. (Moises Martinez / moimart)
Can someone post a sample of the Flamenco Guitar music? Anything without vocals is fine. It would go great with this article.i --AOL Alex 16:11, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
Yes, I can contribute some images and sound files of flamenco guitars. I'm a flamenco guitar luthier and was also wondering if an external link to my site (flamencoguitarmaker.com) may also enhance this page ? Guitarrero 18:30, 2 March 2007 (UTC)
"Those outside the Flamenco community often use it to mean vaguely Spanish-sounding guitar playing which utilises some of the techniques listed below, especially rasgueado. To gain some understanding of the stricter definition of flamenco, read the main article."
To me this sounds kinda cavalier (in simpler terms "douchey") —Preceding unsigned comment added by VegSXEBassist (talk • contribs) 22:48, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
I made a few changes on the tremolo section to improve information and I took out some nonsense. Why mention that they don't use the 'pinky' (which I think, by the way IS a childish term) in Flamenco tremolo when it is never used in classical or flamenco tremolo. Really there is a lot of either unecessary and often misleading material here. The whole article needs to be heavily revised / altered but I don't think I have the time or the inclination. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Khasab (talk • contribs) 23:37, 26 February 2011 (UTC)
It is beyond dubious that Sabicas developed a three finger rasqueado technique in the 19th century as he wasn't born, per his wikipedia entry, until 1912. He's not mentioned in the rasqueado entry and the mistake in century gives me reason to remove the mention. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.190.190.220 (talk) 00:58, 7 April 2011 (UTC)