Exploring Brazilian Rosewood Varieties in Innovative Flamenco Guitars

Ruben Diaz discusses different types of Brazilian Rosewood used in flamenco guitars, including insights on female cherry and male Brazilian rosewood. The video also features tips on evaluating guitars and a comparison of opinions versus facts.

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Female Cherry &Male BR http://www.rdiaz.org/rdvideo1347.html
Rate-Evaluate Guitars http://www.rdiaz.org/rdvideo1308.html

Opinions vs Facts http://rdiaz.org/rdvideo1312.html

Examples:

Ex.1/ 00:14 solo
Ex.2/ 01:52 Answer for the magazine

*Ex.3/ 04:36 Amazon Rosewood
Ex.4/ 03:48 Rio Rosewood
Ex.5/ 07:05 King Wood
Ex.6/ 08:05 Thai Rosewood
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Why Cypress Guitar is an Obsolete Concept Today...? http://youtu.be/bHk8bbbx6dk?t=14s

In my opinion 1) Ebony Fret board, 2) Rosewood Bridge, 3) Cedar Necks, 4) Bone-Saddle, are all unimaginative choices born out of traditional dogmas plus scarcity of ideas which luckily now belong to the past.

Besides that ebony is also under extinction, see here:

Ebony Critically Endangered:

There are many factors regarding the process of getting the suitable wood to make guitars. As an example I recently came to know that Ebony is near extinction,
you can read this article from an interesting wood site
http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/ebony-dark-outlook-dark-woods/
which although is not specialized in woods for guitars, nonetheless it does have a lot of general information as well as useful scientific information regarding many types of woods.

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Evolution of Flamenco Guitar As an Instrument
http://www.rdiaz.org/rdvideo1333.html

The Old Conception of Guitar Setting
http://www.rdiaz.org/rdvideo1332.html

Classical and Flamenco guitars http://www.rdiaz.org/rd-art%207.html

For Beginners It's Even More Important to Get Habituated to The Right Guitar http://www.rdiaz.org/rdvideo1339.html

A Choice Leading to Ideal http://www.rdiaz.org/rdvideo1348.html

"The Real Thing is How You Play... Not Which Guitar You Play" (Nothing further from the truth) http://youtu.be/Bxrw4QVp378?t=14s


"The Real Thing is How You Play... Not Which Guitar You Play" (Nothing further from the truth) http://youtu.be/Bxrw4QVp378?t=14s

Ideal vs Emergency Choices Regarding Buying Flamenco Guitars
http://youtu.be/4u6Iwon-KhI?t=14s

{Instruments Made Out of Garbage http://youtu.be/sJxxdQox7n0?t=5m38s }


"Trying Guitars" and other Obsolete Ideas
http://youtu.be/GOMuzdIV1e8?t=14s

What if I Can't Afford Yet a Good Flamenco Guitar...?
http://youtu.be/0F6BcS-29vo?t=1m23s

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