Some manufacturers have tried to make more notable differences in their strings with smoother bass strings to reduce fingernail wear when playing rasgueados or with colored trebles red or black to appeal to players' aesthetics. That is all that I have seen. Originally Posted by the. Don from D'Addario Strings here - not to refute was the poster above said, but we make a specific set for Flamenco players.
They've asked for set with slightly higher tension than normal, in order to get the snap and response that their percussive style requires. All times are GMT The time now is PM. If you want to know more about these differences, I suggest reading the rest of this article. I have divided the differences between a flamenco guitar and a classical guitar into 5 categories. There is a bit of difference between the two when it comes to tonewood.
The tonewood used in the making of a guitar is able to show you a lot about the instrument. Often taken for granted by many guitarists, tonewood tells a story. Different woods produce different sounds, different sustain capabilities as well as a different color in general. With that said, classical guitar is conventionally made of specific kinds of tonewood. There are guitar models with tops made of either spruce or cedar.
The sides and backs of the guitar are most of the time made of mahogany that is considered a hard tonewood. The case is very much different with flamenco guitars. These types of guitars are made to address a different set of needs and requirements. Flamenco negra guitars, in general, are made with spruce tops. The sides and back are made of Cypress or Sycamore.
A negra flamenco guitar , on the other hand, is often put together with the use of a darker tonewood for the sides. Indeed, the sides and the back of a negra flamenco guitar are ofently made of rosewood , and sometimes of cocobolo. Lower strings mean lower bridge placement, which all ultimately means a really fast fretboard. Lastly, the sound is probably the easiest way to figure out what type of guitar you are listening to. A classical guitar is a flexible instrument.
It offers decent volume, decent projection and loads of sustain. That is quite normal for an instrument that is meant to render multiple tones at the same time, with all of them sounding as crisp as possible. Flamenco guitars are different in this regard. Back when first flamenco guitars were designed, they had to create an instrument that would cut through the noise of flamenco dancing.
If you are not familiar with the flamenco dance, there are a lot of shoe noises from the soles hitting the floor with force.
Cutting through that noise was one of the requirements for the flamenco guitar design. As a result, a typical flamenco guitar has a very loud, piercing sound but not a lot of sustain. The tone dissipates quickly as the decay takes over almost instantly. As you can imagine, flamenco guitars are rarely ever strummed exactly because of this high rate of decay.
This is a very simple question with an even simpler answer. If you are interested in pursuing the flamenco playing style, get yourself a flamenco guitar. Otherwise, there are very few instances where a flamenco guitar is going to be a better choice than a standard classical guitar. These two instruments were invented for two very different styles of music. The differences between classical and flamenco guitars are very small.
However, as you have learned today, those small differences can add up very quickly. At the end of the day, it all comes down to your personal requirements and preferences. CMUSE is a participant of the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program — it is designed to provide an aid for the websites in earning an advertisement fee — by means of advertising and linking to Amazon.
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As always, the best test is your own ears. You can read more in our article, Black nylon guitar strings versus clear: is there a difference , which also lists the technical data of 11 popular colored string sets. String Gauges Trebles:. Fluorocarbon or carbon fiber trebles are more dense than nylon and gut strings. This greater mass is one reason they sound brighter than nylon strings, which is why some flamenco guitarists prefer them.
The damping threshold tends to particularly affect the third string of the guitar, which can sound dull compared to the first and second strings. For this reason, guitarists will sometimes replace the third string with fluorocarbon.
This is what the great flamenco guitarist Tomatito does. His custom Savarez set includes a fluorocarbon G string alongside nylon B and E strings. The higher density of fluorocarbon strings can also make them harder on the fretting fingers. The following video is a good demonstration of the difference between fluorocarbon and nylon strings because it is played on the same instrument by the same guitarist. Titanium treble strings are made by adding a titanium-nylon polymer or a polyamide formula to nylon strings, which can give the strings a purple or dull blueish color.
They tend to produce a brighter tone than nylon strings, although arguably not as bright as fluorocarbon strings. The video below shows the late classical guitarist Ernesto Tamayo demonstrating titanium treble strings.
He makes a passing comment at 1. The table below compares 17 popular flamenco guitar string sets by string gauge inches and tension pounds. This basic data can often be hard to find on manufacturers sites Hannabach do not list string tension at all. By now, it should be clear that the choice of guitar string depends on many factors. Not surprisingly, some of the greatest flamenco guitarists of today make widely different choices of Spanish guitar strings.
The following is a list of several professional guitarists and their chosen string manufacturer and sets many are disclosed via their endorsements.
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