Gear Review: Ultra-Affordable Alvarez Cádiz Flamenco and Classical Guitars

Описание: 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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