Update – I just wanted to post this photo of Paco playing his new Pepe Jr. guitar. I just wish I was there to hear it..
We just found out that Paco De Lucia has bought a new flamenco guitar from Pepe Romero Jr. Apparently when Paco was in Los Angeles to play at Disney Hall, Pepe Sr. showed him Pepe’s latest flamenco guitar (Pepe Jr. was out of town), and the long and short of it was w that Paco decided to keep that guitar. There’s more to the story, as you can hear in the video here of Pepe Jr. playing the guitar in our showroom. Pepe Jr. was recently telling me that he’d like to increase his output of flamencos but that he keeps getting orders for classicals, so I imagine this will help balance things out some. Check out the video to hear the guitar and Pepe Jr. talking about it and about Paco’s decision to keep it, and check out the guitar itself here.
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A masterpiece.
Hello,
The sound is good, but maybe 12.000 $ for this guitar it might be a little expensive. I reckon that a Reyes Flamenca could possibly worth that price but this one…. Let me doubt it!.
GENIAL!!!!!!
ME ENCANTA LA GUIRARRA FLAMENCA!!!!! CONGRATULATIONS PEPE!!!!
Congratulations Pepe on building a guitar that meets Paco de Lucia’s standards . Lorenzo, if someone is willing to pay $12,000 for the guitar, then it is a $12,000 guitar. It’s the quality of the guitar, not the brand.
It is a matter of common sense about Pepe Romero´s guitar. He could think about it!. There are brilliant guitar from great builders all over the world cheaper than this one. That make me think the reason of this high price. Pepe Romero is a young builder trying to sell his guitar , which is perfect! but 12.000 $ even when Paco de Lucia have choosen it… let me doubt it is a good marketing plan for Pepe Romero. It is my opinion , that it.
I am fortunate to own one of Pepe’s guitars. I also own a number of other fine guitars, new and old which cost a good bit more than a Romero. I can attest to the fact that Pepe’s guitars are absolutely phenomenal, Pepe is no novice having made guitars for years now. Anyone who had the pleasure of being present at GSI for Pepe Romero Senior’s concert knows how beautiful they sound but until you have played one you don’t know just how good they are. I would gladly give up a Rodriguez or Fleta before I would give up my Romero.
I don´t think. For instance, a really great guitar builder called José Romero (from Madrid) makes professional flamenco guitars, which are among the best, and they are cheaper than this one. And to be honest, this guitar showed here has a correct sound but not for that price. I have nothing against Pepe Romero. It´s just that I need to put some common sense about the price of this particular guitar he shows
There’s not really reason to consider Pepe as an inexperienced maker, after having he made more than 200 guitars, studyed his father huge collection and having had such a testers and renowned customers. These things make you grow at double speed. How many makers could have had such a training? Bouchet made less than 150 guitars in his life.
Having said that, if even Paco said the guitar is very good, I think the price is well worthed.
I didn´t say that. I am sure Pepe has a lot of experience. It´s the amount of money he ask for that guitar. I am sure that Paco thinks it is a good guitar, as well as he has proved another guitars from Spain rather cheaper than that one. For instance, Vicente Carrillo, Jose Romero, etc. which prices are fairly cheaper. To raise the price to that lever is not a good policy for himself, to be honest. At least, with that price, he could have used brazilian rosewood instead of indian rosewood, which it is cheaper.
Echi,
I can tell you about Juan Miguel Carmona. He is a member of a famous flamenco guitar player dinasty. Moreover, he has a guitar in GSI for a reasonable price … and he is also a recognized guitar maker in Spain.
It appears that the point here is that a flamenco guitar is not worth the price of a classical guitar.
I have to deal with this type of thinking all the time from flamenco players who just don’t get it.
A master builder is putting his quality in which ever guitar style he builds. If this is a problem for flamenco mentality then consider the Reyes guitars that sell for 15,000 to 22,000 on the average.
This is not saying other builders should charge the same but that each builder ask what he thinks his work is worth.
Pepe may feel that his labor is the same for either style.
There are collectors buying his guitars at this current time and I think that keeping the pricing firm and balanced rather than shifting prices, is a good way to market guitars from an independent builder.
So, let the builder asks what he thinks is fair, and let the market decide where the quality comes into line with the asking price.
And quit complaining about the price, as I have enough experience to know that money comes and goes but tangible assets normally increase with age, if the investor treats his assets with personal care .
A well know builder with market integrity will normally provide this as he progresses along the road to posterity.
I think it´s a matter of fame. We have a refrain in Spain:
“unos tienen la fama y otros cardan la lana” or ” Cria fama y échate a dormir”. It means that once you get the fame you can do whatever you want. OK guys. Pay whatever you want for Pepe Romero´s guitars… I have mine, which is rather good and less expensive.
Sorry my apologizes. I didn´t mean to say that my guitar is better than Romero.