Flamenco guitar Ignacio Paricio nº72 2023

This flamenco guitar was built by the maestro luthier Ignacio Paricio in 2023. Ignacio Paricio was born in Barcelona in 1970. Before he started learning how to become a guitar maker, he worked as a professional model maker. In this profession, he learned to use high-precision machinery for working on both wood and methacrylate. His passion for the guitar led him to leave it all behind, and move to Granada in 1995 in order to learn guitar making with Manuel and Jesús Bellido. Some time later, after starting his own workshop in Granada, he would move to Barcelona, where he combined the guitar making with some jobs in set design, both for cinema and theatre. In 2008 he decided to focus o guitar making only, specializing in flamenco guitar. Ignacio uses Santos Hernández templates, and Manuel Bellido´s making system, with some small modifications which provide his guitars with personality, without losing the essence of the most traditional flamenco guitar.

The different kinds of wood used in its manufacturing are of an extraordinary quality, the sound top is made of German spruce, with an even and straight grain on the entire surface. The back and sides are made of beautiful cypress tree, with a straight and homogeneous veining.

Specially remarkable has to be the headstock: a traditional one, but with an internal mechanism, making accurate tuning possible, without the disadvantages of the old wooden headstocks, combining thus the beauty of the latter with the accuracy and convenience of the modern mechanical headstock.

This one is an exceptional flamenco guitar. It has a surprising volume, as well as a perfect balance among all the strings all along the fingerboard. On top of it all, the high level of comfort offered, and its unequivocal flamenco timbre… all of it results in the perfect instrument! Its strumming and its perfectly balanced bass strings (concerning depth/brightness) are exceptional, with an unbeatable flamenco sound. The trebles are bright and clear, and they have an astonishingly wide variety of harmonics.

The tension of this flamenco guitar is medium, and the height of strings in saddle and fingerboard is very reduced. The height on the fret 12 is 2.2 mm, thereby ensuring an extraordinary level of comfort.

The condition of this flamenco guitar is new.