|
|
|
Ready Guitars |
Best Models |
Custom Guitars |
Workshop |
Gallery |
Maestro Bellucci |
| 10-STRINGS Brazilian rosewood B&S, "Yepes Model" | ![]() |
| The 10 strings
concert guitar had been around my mind for a long time. Maestro Narciso
Yepes was the first GRAND maestro I ever had. He gave me lessons in in
Las Rosas home in the early 80s. There, I played a few chords on his 10
strings guitar...the same one he made his 1976 Deutsche Grammophone recordings
on... When I played her I was in Heaven and the feelings when I recorded
Romance for the demo, took me to that instant immediately ! The next time
I played a 10 strings was at Ramirez studio/museum where he (Ramirez III)
let me play one a 10-strings babe. I played Romance on the clip, The piece
that made Yepes world famous....I used the Yepes tuning C Bb Ab Gb tuning
although I find the D C B A tuning more intuitive.
I was waiting for a 10 strings guitar player to order one of this babes in order to get the new project going but I had to build one and show her off to get their attention. Nobody passed from a shy inquiry " Do you build 10 strings guitars? " . She has several features to make
her proud: 1-She's the first 10 strings with a doubletop. 2-She´s
also the first 10 strings 640mm double top on the planet and she
is definitely the most affordable 10-strings concert you'll EVER find...
Simply put, ASTONISHING. Her sound seems to go on forever.... LITERALLY.
The extra 4 strings add an innumerable number of harmonic and sets notes
in motion in harmonic sympathy. Really marvelous. It took me 2 minutes
to adapt to the look of the fret board from above as I was making the video
but the sound and sustain on this baby really conquered me from the first
plucking. Imagine having a reverb machine on... that is what it feels
like.
Regarding 650mm or 640 mm guitar construction, keep the following rule at hand: If the distance between the tip of your thumb and the tip of your little finger is equal or less than 9 in. when fully stretched, use 640 mm. Adapting from one scale to the other takes no time at all. Radiused or flat fingerboard?
|
![]() |
|
The leather
wrapping around the strings is to avoid the elongation knots to
damage the finish.
I did not
have the extra 4 strings cut at the correct measure so I had to elongate
the ones I had available.
You can remove
the leather protection as soon as you change strings.
|
10-STRINGS Brazilian rosewood B&S, Double Top Cedar Home
| Biography |
e-m@il
| Site map|
Support| Copyright ©, 1997-2012 |
![]()
![]()
![]()
![]()