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• pdg ✭✭

  September 23 Posts: 709

  I like it, at least for leads, for that reason.

  
• JSanta NY✭✭✭ Duffell, Mazaud, AJL

  September 23 Posts: 383

  Not necessarily what you consider a flamenco guitar, but Raphael Fays plays this style of music on a nylon string guitar. He's unlocked some incredible flamenco technique using a plectrum, and his Django-style stuff is second to none.

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=la4ujB2JkIs
• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  September 24 Posts: 6,102

  There's Lulo Reinhardt with his signature Kremona guitar. Although I don't know how much flamenco design is in there, I can't but think that it's a punchy, percussive guitar.

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
• pdg ✭✭

  September 24 Posts: 709

  Kremona flamenco guitars are good and tend toward percussive, but 12-fret and no cutaway.
• Buco NOVA, DCDeity Ivanovski maple/spruce

  September 24 Posts: 6,102

  Lulo's model is 14 fret to the body (but maybe that's not what you meant).

  https://www.kremonausa.com/en/signature-series/lulo-daimen-kremona

  
  

  Every note wants to go somewhere-Kurt Rosenwinkel
• pdg ✭✭

  September 24 Posts: 709

  No. They have a regular flamenco guitar model.

  
• happyjazzer New

  September 24 Posts: 27

  Many thanks for all the above info.Much appreciated.
• Joonas EstoniaNew Altamira M

  October 11 Posts: 156

  Lulo has actually two siganture models. One is a 12 fret with a classical neck and the other is the 14 fret with a thinner neck. The 14 fret looks very interesting to me and I'd like to try it out if I could. I'm aware of one local singer-songwriter type who uses the 14 fret as his main instrument and that seems like a brilliant use for this guitar. To use this instead of a traditional folk style guitar. The nylon strings are softer for a casual player and that guitar still retains a thinner neck and a built-in microphone.

  For gypsy jazz though, the nylon strings are an acquired taste. Some use them and sound good but with steel strings they'd sound better. So there's that.

  
• paulmcevoy75 Portland, MaineNew

  October 11 Posts: 928

  I'd go with a regular classical over a flamenco, flamencos have low action and less strong tension related to the flamenco technique and ultimately will probably be less loud for a given amount of input.

  No practical experience here tbh but they are designed a little differently to be percussion instruments and unless you're beating the top, you're probably not taking advantage of that.

  I tried to make one and failed pretty miserably for not understanding the differences. Oh well.