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	<description>An experienced musician learns classical guitar</description>
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		<title>Lâg Crossover Classical Guitars are coming to America</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:07:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stop the presses! At the NAMM (National Association of Music Merchants) show in Anaheim, California, Korg USA has just announced that they will be distributing Lâg guitars, from France, in the United States. They have never been available here before. Lâg make several models of affordable nylon-string crossover guitars with traditional woods, full bodies, full [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The music I just couldn&#8217;t learn</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:08:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our guitar trio is working up a transcription of a proto-madrigal from around 1490 written by a Frenchman named Pierre Certon. It&#8217;s got ridiculously tricky phrasing and rhythm. The other two guys nailed their parts and love to rip through the piece at an excessive tempo. I, on the other hand, holding down the bass [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Rock Ruined Songs</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[More specifically, how guitars ruined singing Ever since the rock era, singers have gotten a raw deal. It has to do with keys and tonality. From the dawn of time, before the ascendancy of the rock guitar, people wrote songs. A song was a melody with an accompaniment. It didn’t have a particular key; whenever [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Les Paul, but don&#8217;t forget Leo Fender</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 16 Aug 2009 13:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guitar and The Man The Guitar Being an armchair musicologist, I have to make a comment on the passing of Les Paul. In the writeups the newspapers have been publishing, the emphasis is on Les Paul the man endorsing the Gibson Les Paul guitar. This is really a side-note, a footnote, to a brilliant [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tenenbaum, Nesson and the RIAA</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:42:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tilting at Internet Barrier, a Stalwart Is Upended published in the New York Times, August 11, 2009 After you&#8217;ve read that article, read this. My response in an email sent to the author of the article: Dear Mr. Schwartz: Tenenbaum is a scofflaw and his lawyer Nesson presented no legal defense at all. These points [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling Jazz Guitarists with Crossover Guitars</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:40:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I would like to hear from players who use a crossover nylon-string guitar to play jazz, and other forms of music other than traditional classical guitar music. Please post a comment here. I hope you can contribute to what I&#8217;m writing about. As I&#8217;ve mentioned, I got a crossover guitar to play genuine classical guitar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Models of Crossover Guitar: Cordoba Fusion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:14:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cordoba has a new line that I got to try out at the Summer NAMM show in Nashville in 2008. The rep said that they are designed by master luthier Kenny Hill and manufactured in China. The Cordoba Fusions look a lot like a classical guitar with a cutaway, but they are 14 frets to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Models of Crossover Guitars on the Market, Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No endorsement is implied. I have not had the opportunity to examine or evaluate many of these first-hand. What I&#8217;ve learned has come from Internet searches, visits to music stores, catalogs, and conversations with the people at Atlanta&#8217;s most excellent classical guitar store, Maple Street Guitars. Another source of information was Grant MacNeill from The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts on crossover guitars</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:10:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All this research has prompted some observations, first about what a crossover guitar needs, and secondly about what traditional classical guitarists could learn from the features of a crossover guitar. I expect this to be controversial! It is my belief that a nut width of 48mm on a nylon-string guitar would be just fine for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My review of the Alhambra crossover guitar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Review of the Alhambra 5p CWX Please read my previous three posts, which provide full specifications and detailed pictures. My primary aim in selecting and buying this guitar was to find an instrument that is built like, and sounds like, a traditional classical guitar, with its traditional acoustic properties, but which has a cutaway and [...]]]></description>
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