Ebony Fret-board is Obsolete Choice in Flamenco Guitars Today / Andalusian Maple Fret board & Bridge

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Why Cypress Guitar is an Obsolete Concept Today...? http://youtu.be/bHk8bbbx6dk?t=14s

Ex.1/ 00:14 solo 1 Buleria
Ex.2/ 08:36 Spain (by Chick Corea)
Ex.3/ 01:11 answer for the magazine
Ex.4/ 04:00 Acknowledgements
Ex.5/ 07:59 Conclusion

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In my opinion 1) Ebony Fret board, 2) Rosewood Bridge, 3) Cedar Necks, 4) Bone-Saddle, are all unimaginative choices born out of traditional dogmas plus scarcity of ideas which luckily now belong to the past.

Besides that ebony is also under extinction, see here:

Ebony Critically Endangered:

There are many factors regarding the process of getting the suitable wood to make guitars. As an example I recently came to know that Ebony is near extinction,
you can read this article from an interesting wood site
http://www.wood-database.com/wood-articles/ebony-dark-outlook-dark-woods/
which although is not specialized in woods for guitars, nonetheless it does have a lot of general information as well as useful scientific information regarding many types of woods.

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