Gear Review: Ultra-Affordable Alvarez Cádiz Flamenco and Classical Guitars
Alvarez has long been known for its good-quality budget guitars, including classical and flamenco models. Not long ago, in a research-and-design mission to build even better nylon-strings, the Alvarez team visited Cádiz, in southwestern Spain, the birth region of the classical guitar, where it explored time-honored construction methods of the Spanish guitar from the perspectives of both luthiers and players.
Alvarez has tapped into these ideas in a new series of guitars, appropriately called Cádiz, designed to be lightweight and responsive. The series now includes a half-dozen classical and flamenco models, with and without cutaways and electronics. All are built using a new mold—longer and narrower than Alvarez’s previous classical body style—and with the Spanish heel neck joint. The Jose Ramirez III–inspired bracing on each Cádiz is asymmetric, with a treble bar intended to create singing notes on the top three strings, and lighter bracing on the bass side for a strong bottom end.
I auditioned two very different instruments from the series—the CF6, a traditional flamenco model, and the CC7HCEAR, a crossover acoustic-electric classical guitar—and found them to be consistently well-designed and executed. What’s more, with the CF6 selling for well under $500 and the CC7HCEAR for less than $600, both guitars are hard to beat in terms of value.
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Originally posted by UCwpKnYJHsw9O_eznF2jD1EQ at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMJKPDCh1P8
I enjoy my CC7–it's responsive, and has a pleasant sound. But for performing (usually without amplification), I prefer my notably more powerful–and pricey–Saez.
So since you posted it as two different, which is which, you failed to state it and the video says both as classical not flamenco at all.
Very Talented, one with the instrument. Enjoyed it so much, thank you!
good day the guitar with which he interprets a passage from the concert in aranjuez. what guitar reference is it?
And made in China same as most Cordoba, Spanish names but American/Chinese unless very expensive models, what will happen when USA sanctions China like Russia. All these brands cheaper guitars will disappear!
I love my HCEAR but I use it for rock and blues. It sings like a angel plugged in or not. I didn't have to learn new finger memory because of its hybrid neck and its sounds so unique and quite comfortable to play. I have to pry it out of other fellow rocker buddys' hands when I let them play it, they can't get enough. I'm learning to put that beautiful classical nylon tone to some my ballads.
On the first guitar almost no single treble notes were played, except for during a chord. I need to hear a melody played on the treble notes to know how I feel about the sound of the guitar.
The faces made????????????
1:28 Beautiful.
no tap plate?
A fist full of dollars
Can someone tell me what the second piece of music is please?
I wish there are also videos on CYM75.
I love this guitar,great response,sound projection,smooth action (Ángel Del Río,Puerto Rico)
The cf6 is great.I may purchase it.
Very good sounding guitar
good to know he's breathing