Dos Guitarras Morales

If you want a Spanish guitar, the obvious place to go is Barnsley … just kidding … Spain. In Granada, off the Plaza Nuevo (ask anyone) there’s a street that leads up the hill to the Alhambra, called Cuesta de Gomérez. I got my two beauties from Sr. Antonio Morales. If you get one and you’re lucky, Sr. Morales will serenade your lady friend on your new guitar while you wait for your credit card to go through!

Bajo Sexto

It’s hard enough to get hold of a Bajo Sexto, and it’s even harder to get one that doesn’t play like a tree trunk - I gave up and got the genius Cedric Thorose to make this one. When it was done it actually sounded too good, so we put a nasty ole cheap pick-up in the sound hole. Now it sounds authentic.

 
Hokada 12

The Hokada was one of the first Japanese guitars to be imported. My first wife bought this one for me on my 21st. We were young and poor and the guitar set her back a whopping £25. I restrung it as a High G tuning many years ago and the big body with the thin strings gives it a big sound. It’s somewhere on every one of my albums.


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