strange picture of segovia

[selma600]

there has been a thread on this on the usenet newsgroup. check out this picture and weigh in (?) on whether it's a funky paste-up job or what...admin, if you know a better place for this post, feel free to move it, but the identity of this instrument is puzzling a bunch of folks.

here's the link
http://tinyurl.com/62q58]

[Dave Tate]

Hi Selma,
I'm pretty sure the guitar pictured is a Stauffer, a german instrument from the late 19th century.
Hope that helps!
Dave

[selma600]

Hi Selma,
I'm pretty sure the guitar pictured is a Stauffer, a german instrument from the late 19th century.
Hope that helps!
Dave

there's a debate running is whether he was actually playing it or whether it is a paste-up..the whole angle and all is odd.

[Perf_de_Castro]

Egads, he'd be rolling in his grave!!! :shock:


Heheh :lol:

[Jubilee Valence]

-I clicked that link & heard the free samples;"Recuerdos...."....................that moved me....the---tempo or...something... thanks again!(you really are an angel...)that link has twenty!-samples!-folks!

[a333a]

6. Chacona in F Minor: Chacona in F Minor - Johann Sebastian Bach



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F minor????

[Antigone]

OK ive been listening to alot of segovia latley and watching viedos
and i think his playing is weak.Dont get my wrong great rest strokes but the thing is
95 percent of classical guitar is free stroke .And i just saying IMO he has bad rest strokes.

Now let the bashing begin

[Tomas-Lobos]

BAM, KAPOW, BASH, BASH!!!

[MWA]

Are you listening to the recordings he made when he was in his 70's or the ones made when the recording techniques were still in the dark ages compared to today? Segovia was in his prime before the recording techniques were as advanced as they are now. Listen to the old direct to disc recordings he made and if you can listen through the noise you will hear an impressive performance without the benefit of over dubbing, multiple takes and splicing in corrections.

[Zak]

No one gets tone like Segovia...

And give the guy a break! He pioneered the instrument -- the self-proclaimed "apostle of the guitar."

[Libre]

Rest strokes, free strokes, who gives a rodent’s posterior WHAT kind of strokes? You are seeing the trees but not the forest. I think your analysis is totally off the wall. But in the end, I agree with you. Segovia was a pioneer, no doubt about it. But he would never make it today. His own protégés, Bream, Williams, and Parkening greatly exceeded him.
I don’t care about the kind of strokes, his interpretations were totally bizarre. All of a sudden, out of left field, comes a glaringly accented note, towering over its brethren, without any discernable reason. Here comes a pregnant pause, again, with no understandable reason. His Bach playing was the worst of all. His Spanish and Romantic music was better, I’ll admit, but it still irritates me. His tone production was fine, with that thick sound that became famous. But there is so much I dislike about his playing. It’s not even clean – full of buzzes and half formed notes. And so idiosyncratic. Ridiculous tempos, incomprehensible interpretations, totally whacky playing.
Yepes was a better player, in my opinion. He respected the music more, had just as good a tone (if not quite as lush), and better technique.
Then, add to it Segovia's legendary intolerance, and his many ungracious comments. Was Segovia really such a genius? Would his playing stand up today, measured against todays great players? NO! The world was ready for classical guitar, he was a colorful figure, at the right place and the right time.

[Jubilee Valence]

BAM, KAPOW, BASH, BASH!!! :!: :!: :!: :!: :idea: :!: :!: :!: :!: :twisted: