Paul Aguilera Luthier
Flamenco Blanca
Hector Romero trying out a 'Blanca'
Before making flamenco guitars I played professionally for many years, and had a chance to play many differennt flamenco guitars from many top contemporary and historical makers. This I feel gives me a very deep understanding of the instrument, how it should sound and how it should play. I bring this knowledge and experience with me into my making, producing big sounding guitars with great playability.
My cypress guitars are very light weighing around 1100gms or less if the guitar has pegs. I have experimented with many diferent types of strutting patterns and plantilla sizes and over the years have slowly tweaked and improved different aspects such as the attack, volume/power,geometry, balance etc. I only use European Spruce, principally Italian for the top and my cypress is locally sourced here in Cordoba, Argentina. For the necks I use my lightest and most quarter sawn cedar stock which helps to balance out the instrument.
Tate Olmedo in concert with his Aguilera Blanca
My guitars are played by many professional flamenco guitarists in North and South America as well as Europe. These traditional guitars are very versatile and are not just used to play flamenco, below you can see my friend and prolific composer Lee Westwood playing a lovely piece of Marco Pereira on his Aguilera blanca.
The guitars are all French polished with a lemon shellac that has my colour blend, to warm up the colour of the cypress, but not the intense red of the Madrid and Valencia makers, closer to a Manuel Reyes tint.
English Composer Lee Westwood with his Blanca
