In June, July 2010 I went to Spain for a 6 week holiday and to buy a flamenco guitar A26 is what I had in mind. I had been to Spain in 2007 and bought a Conde Hermanos EF5 but now I wanted something more professional. In June I went to visit Mariano Conde in Madrid, a very nice and helpful man, he showed me around his workshop and all the stages of making guitars, thanks Mariano it was very exiting and interesting, there is nothing like this in Australia.
I had a look and tried a few guitars, found a really nice A26; Mariano showed me his special edition guitars. I fell in love with number 4 “Clamor” a Blanco extremely fast and brilliant. I purchased this guitar, I was very proud I had found and now owned a dream guitar.
I travelled around Spain with this guitar. While travelling around Spain I went to flamenco shows everywhere, and while in Granada I met a guitarist Antonio who taught guitar at “Manolet’s flamenco academy in Sacromonte”. I had five guitar lessons and spent a few hours over five days watching Manolet teach dancing. This had turned out to be a fantastic Flamenco holiday for me.
I had to go back to Madrid to fly back to Australia. I was very pleases with my guitar and started thinking I would love a Negra, maybe a 25R, so went to see Mariano, looked at some 25R’s but decided this was a once in a lifetime opertunity and should go for a special. Mariano wanted to keep number 2 “Levante” for his personal collection, but told me that as I had number 4, I should have number 2. Lavente is deeper and very fast, a very different sound to Clamor. So now I have a Blanco and Negra "Mariano Conde specials", I consider myself very lucky.
Se ha finalizado la construcción de las primeras guitarras hechas completamente en nuestro taller de la Calle Amnistía, 1 de Madrid. Aunque los modelos sean parecidos a simple vista a los comercializados por la antigua Casa Conde Hermanos; la calidad es completamente diferente. Los modelos recientemente terminados son: EF4, EF5, EF5/N, A27, A28 y un modelo nuevo A27N. Al igual que las etiquetas de las guitarras de la serie especial; estas etiquetas son hechas a mano por Mariano Conde, indicando el lugar de construcción, el modelo, el número del instrumento y el año de fabricación.
A27
We have finished the first guitars entirely handcrafted in our workshop of C/Amnistia,1. Madrid.
However, our models seem, at first sigh as the old Conde Hermanos models, the quality is completely different.
The finished models are: EF4, EF5, EF5/N, A27, A28 and a new model A27/N.
As the special series guitars, the labels are handmade by Mariano Conde, indicating the construction place, the model, the number of the instrument and the building year.
Mariano Conde está construyendo una gama especial de guitarras las cuales están siendo muy bien recibidas por profesionales y coleccionistas.
Cada una es pieza única, elaborada cuidando meticulozamente cada detalle, desde la selección de la
madera hasta la colocación del clavijero.
Como detalle peculiar cabe resaltar la etiqueta, ya que en ésta va escrito a mano, un poema de su propia autoría el cual le dá nombre al instrumento; tal y como se puede apreciar el las fotos publicadas en nuestro blog. También cada pieza está numerada; además se coloca el año de su construcción.
Hasta la fecha hay hechas 12 piezas (todas vendidas) y actualmente en construcción 2 piezas más (vendidas también); el precio único de venta es de 15.000€ y se fabrican bajo pedido, con un tiempo estimado de fabricación de 5 meses aproximadamente. La madera que se utiliza para su elaboración es Palo Santo, Ciprés, Pino Abeto, Cedro.
"Clamor" Guitarra nº 4/ "Clamor" Guitar nº 4.
Mariano Conde is handcrafting a special edition series guitars, which are receiving good comments from professionals and collectors. Each guitar is an unique piece made taking meticulous care in details since the selection of wood quality until the machinehead positioning. The label is a very special detail, due to there´s a poem wrote by Mariano Conde which name the instrument; as you can see in the pictures published on the blog. Also, each piece is numbered and it has the construction year, all handmade.
Until now, there are 12 pieces handmade by Mariano Conde (all of them sold) and actually he is making 2 more guitars (sold too); the price is 15.000€ and they are built on request, with an estimeted delivery time 5 months aproximately.
The wood used to make the guitars can be Rosewood, Cypress, German Spruce or Cedar.
