Comparison of instruments

Allready when I was studying it was a kind of sport to compare instruments
of each other. A lot happened at that moment (end of the seventies) as the
Japanese were offering good and even outstanding instruments at that moment.
I remember I bought a high end K.Yairi classical guitar but my teacher wasn't
involved in these products. "Good guitars could only come from Spain".


In fact during our lessons we didn't get any history regarding the famous guitar
builders like Torres, Arias, Hernandez, Manuel and José Ramirez and even
the interesting luthiers at that time like e.g. Ignacio Fleta weren't discussed.
And for this moment I haven't even included the French luthiers and Paris as
a centre for guitar players or people like Panormo in England in the 19th century.

With the rise of internet we are now in an information decade: Something I allways
hoped for. A lot of people are willing to give their knowledge and let it use you
for your advantage. So this is not going to be the place where a lot of names
will be explained like a dictionnary as with some effort you allready can get a lot of
information. I will look at the sense and non sense of comparing instruments.