![]() Now I have 41 instruments with that, and aside from carrying their own verse and a unique name, they’re completely distinct guitars. It was an idea I had many years ago, to find the expression of a guitar in a verse. These carry a small verse inside on the label. I have a series of guitars called From The Poem. Throughout my entire life I’ve been between guitarists and guitars, and between guitars and woods. I studied in the conservatory and played some flamenco as well. Well, I like many other things than just building guitars. Have you ever been at a point where you wanted to stop building guitars to do other things? Each generation gives a little something new so that the guitars have more and more presence of sound. What have been the most difficult challenges in your career?įirstly, to be able to do this work as well as my father did, and later to evolve and to contribute something new. We’d just go there to play with the wood, and in a really natural way I became a guitar builder. It was really natural because we lived right in front of the workshop and so we’d always come home from school and go right into the shop, the old one on Calle Gravina. You generally learn this trade by first grabbing a broom and sweeping the floor, then how to file and sand the wood. I began by playing, grabbing a tool, a file, just playing. When I came home from school I’d see them working in the shop. How did you begin to learn to build guitars? My whole life I’ve been around guitarists at my father’s workshop, classical as well as flamenco guitarists. With music, well I was created among guitars. What was your first experience with music? I am Mariano Conde, of the third generation of guitar builders, of Madrid. ![]() The interview was conducted on February 05, 2018, in Madrid, Spain, at the workshop Guitarrería Mariano Conde. He and his family have built some of history’s best flamenco guitars and they are consistently found in the hands of the best guitarists. Mariano Conde is part of Madrid-based dynasty of guitar builders that began over a century ago.
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