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	<title>Music and Beyond &#187; classical guitar</title>
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		<title>Models of Crossover Guitars on the Market, Introduction</title>
		<link>http://wheatwilliams.com/wordpress/2009/08/05/models-of-crossover-guitars-on-the-market-introduction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:57:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wheat Williams</dc:creator>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Wheat Williams</dc:creator>
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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>
		<link>http://wheatwilliams.com/wordpress/2009/08/05/my-review-of-the-alhambra-crossover-guitar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 17:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wheat Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[alhambra 5p]]></category>
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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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		<title>Which guitar to buy? Part One</title>
		<link>http://wheatwilliams.com/wordpress/2009/07/24/which-guitar-to-buy-part-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2009 04:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wheat Williams</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[cutaway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreadnought]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did an inordinate amount of research in order to find a guitar that met my needs. Maybe you can benefit from my experience. Four or five years ago I got an inexpensive Alvarez classical guitar, a very traditional model except for having a cutaway. It was set up correctly with the usual action, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A nice visit from a pro</title>
		<link>http://wheatwilliams.com/wordpress/2009/07/24/a-nice-visit-from-a-pro/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 22:38:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wheat Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[musicology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[christopher parkening]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[giuliani]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[john williams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this month I invited Christopher Davis, who writes &#8220;The Classical Guitar Blog&#8221; at http://classicalguitarblog.net, to have a look at my new blog. He wrote me a nice private email, with some general suggestions on having a succesful blog. He also made some points where he took issue with statements that I made, so I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pumping Iron and Pumping Nylon</title>
		<link>http://wheatwilliams.com/wordpress/2009/07/21/pumping-iron-and-pumping-nylon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 03:27:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wheat Williams</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[musicology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learning classical guitar is only one part of what I’m referring to as my “complete life makeover”. After a protracted mid-life crisis lasting about six years, in which I went through just about everything in a person’s life that could be considered a crisis (no need to bore you with the details), I recently declared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roadmap, sort of. An ambitious outlay of plans.</title>
		<link>http://wheatwilliams.com/wordpress/2009/04/27/roadmap-sort-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wheat Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Being new to this blogging thing, it occurs to me that I&#8217;ve got a book brewing here. The subtitle might be &#8220;An Outsider&#8217;s Guide to All Things Guitar.&#8221; All I can do is post stuff as I think of it and as time permits. What will probably happen is a bunch of installments presented out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introductions</title>
		<link>http://wheatwilliams.com/wordpress/2009/04/25/hello-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 16:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wheat Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello and welcome. You can click on &#8220;About Wheat Williams&#8221; above and learn some more about me. If you are learning guitar, I hope you&#8217;ll find lots of material here in the coming months that will be helpful. If you are an established classical guitarist (a member of  a clique of generally stuffy academic elitists [...]]]></description>
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