2017 Antonio Marin Montero SP/CY

This guitar is a recent instrument from Antonio Marin, one of the most iconic southern Spanish builders of the last 50 years. Typical of Marin’s best flamenco guitars, it has a nice quick, bouncy responsiveness, a characteristic...

This guitar is a recent instrument from Antonio Marin, one of the most iconic southern Spanish builders of the last 50 years. Typical of Marin’s best flamenco guitars, it has a nice quick, bouncy responsiveness, a characteristic found in the best of the traditional flamencos. It has a great amount of power, especially at the attack, and a nice, raspy bite to notes in all registers. It is feather light – really a traditional, old-school blanca by all measures. Setup is comfortable and low making playability a breeze. Although the guitar is still fairly new, it already has a nice, loose and very open quality to the sound – it also has very little playing wear of any kind – it’s in “almost-new” condition. This is a monster of a guitar from one of Granada’s living legends.

Orfeo Magazine #8 – The Granada School