Flamenco guitar
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A flamenco guitar is a guitar similar to a classical guitar, but with lower action, thinner tops, smaller bodies, and less internal bracing. It usually has nylon strings, like the classical guitar, bu
Example of a cedar top flamenco guitar with traditional tap plates/golpeadores installed
Flamenco guitarist Paco de Lucía
Flamenco
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Flamenco is an art form based on the various folkloric music traditions of southern Spain, developed within the gitano subculture of the region of Andalusia, and also having historical presence in Ext
Flamenco guitar
…but it generally possesses a livelier, grittier sound compared to the classical guitar. It is used in toque, the guitar-playing part of the art of flamenco. Traditionally, luthiers made guitars to sell at a wide range of prices, largely based on the materials used and the number of decorations, to cater…
Belén Maya, a flamenco dancer of the gitano ethnicity in traditional dress
"Café cantante" in Seville, Spain, c.1888. Photograph by Emilio Beauchy aka "E. Beauchy"
Finnish flamenco dancer Reima Nikkinen with an unidentified woman dancer in December 1971
The Palos of flamenco