Shopping

• Guitar Salon International Great shop. Great forum. Have purchased a guitar from them and it was a great experience. Highly recommended
• http://www.classicalguitarnet.com/ The guy in Boone Iowa. Some really fine guitars.
• http://www.classicalguitarstore.com: Little store in philidelphia. Another I'd like to check out when on the east coast some day.
• http://www.gspguitar.com/ - GSP has quite a bit of sheet music that is not found elsewhere.
• http://www.guitaraffecs.com/ - Some cool stuff.
• http://www.guitars-int.com/ - Popular one on the internet. In Ohio I think. Always has lots of nice guitars
• http://www.kirkpatrickguitar.com/ - Place near mom and dad's work. Would really like to hit it up sometime when we're out there.
• http://www.lamancha.com/
• http://www.luthiermusic.com/ - Odd little site I found wandering around the web.
• http://www.rosewoodguitar.com/classic.html - Rosewood Guitar. Not sure how much they update their site. Have some interesting guitars once in a while.
• http://www.sprucetreemusic.com/guitars.html - Not too far away from Minneapolis. Good to keep an eye on.
• http://www.theguitarsalon.com/
• http://www.thepodium.com/ - Local guitar store near the University of Minnesota campus. Trying to sell a guitar there right now.
• http://www.vintage-instruments.com/navigate/catidx5.htm - Some crazy vintage intruments.
• http://www.zavaletas-guitarras.com/ - Dealer in Handmade guitars. Some beautiful ones for sure.

Manufacturers and Luthiers

• http://www.guitarrasramirez.com/english/inicioEn.html - The english site for Ramirez guitars.
• http://www.rebrune.com/main.html - Luthier
• was - http://home.mn.rr.com/harringtonguitar/index.htm Harrington Guitars - This is the guitar I have now. Looks like this site has moved again, or maybe is just gone altogether
• Classical Guitars by Fritz Mueller. He's big into double tops.
• German Vazquez Rubio
• Johnny Walker Classical guitars. Says he's tried walnut and it worked pretty well. Always wondered about that. Fun to keep an eye on.

Community Sites

• http://www.delcamp.net/ - Good forums and some sheet music.
• http://dirk.meineke.free.fr/classical.html - interesting idea
• http://icking-music-archive.org/ByComposer.php - some sheet music for more than just the GUITAR
• http://www.guitaralive.org/playlist.html - Classical guitar alive! playlists. And their site in general. Someday I will actually listen to some of this stuff. Looks really interesting.
• http://youtube.com/group/ClassicalGuitar - You tube's classical guitar group. Some really great videos.
• http://www.acousticguitar.com/ubbcgi/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=forum;f=7Classical corner over at Acoustic Guitar's web site.

Randoms

Much to know and learn on the old classical guitar. Going to use this little section for documenting all the fun. What songs I would like to learn or have already been working on can be found in ClassicalGuitarRepertoire. After I get to a certain point I would like to get all the songs I know recorded here. Been checking out a lot of stuff on ClassicalGuitarBuilding so I will start that page. There is a new forum at http://www.digitalguitararchive.com/index.php that is brand new. Should keep an eye on it. Oasis is the name of that cool humidifier that stringsbymail has. Would like to try one or more of those some day.

Finding sheet music online

• http://www.muslib.se/ebibliotek/boije/indexeng.htm - Cool public archive of old guitar music.
• http://gallarda.narod.ru/ - This place has just about every piece of music I've gone to look for plus some of them are Segovia transcriptions which is cool in it's own right. Keep finding more and more resources online, so we should now have a ClassicalGuitarMusic page.
• http://www.sheetmusicarchive.net/ - Lots of original scores. Who's up for transcribing?
• Free sheet music on CreativeGuitar.org - Quite the collection from around the internet.

Jazz thoughts

Thinking if I ever start playing more serious jazz on the classical one of these http://www.godinguitars.com/godinwhatsnewp.htm might be just the ticket. Something to think about. There was a write-up on them in one of the recent GuitArt magazines. Sound like a really cool guitar.

Guitar Tone - Spruce v. Cedar

Where did I find this?
Question: I would appreciate some guidance on whether to choose cedar or spruce as a top wood. Jeannouel van Leeuwen, Netherlands Antilles--July 1998.
Answer: A full account of the difference between these woods is not easy to put into words, but let's give it a try. An important luthiery consideration when using these woods is that cedar is generally lower and density and has a little higher stiffness/weight ratio than spruce. Cedar typically produces a sound which is warm and "Spanish." Spruce is more likely to produce clarity and a larger tonal palette. Cedar guitars are usually louder up close, although some spruce guitars (but not all!) project better from a concert stage than might be expected in an up-close comparison with a cedar-top. Opinion varies as to why this might be so; it is my conviction that the primary physical variable is fullness in the overtone structure of the treble notes, e.g. the upper partials. (The human ear treats partials as additive, which can make a musical instrument sound louder than a decibel reading recorded electronically might suggest.)