Guitar Shopping in Paracho Mexico Dec 2022

[@stulora3172]

As a German, who doesn't love far from Paracho and loves his guitars, I can confirm, Paracho is heaven. The Luthiers are world class, and I feel always bad paying the low prices they ask for their master pieces.

[@JManuelCG15]

Gracias hermano jaja como Mexicano puedo decirte que lo mejor que puedes hacer es ayudar fomentando al turismo en Paracho y en México en general, para que estos lutieres sígan extendiendo sus obras y el comercio mejore 🇲🇽

[@juanespinosa8064]

Saludos ,desde el estado de Washington U.S. .Aver cuando viajamos a visitarlos y a comprar una guitarra de ustedes. Gracias

[@elyandrade4886]

Thank you for visiting us, we hope to see you soon with your music and your beautiful presence in Mexico City.

[@juanrojas2595]

She's one hell of a player man. She could make any guitar sing.

[@beanDoggins]

I go there about twice a year and bring guitars to northern California. Always an absolute treat.

[@Daniel-yt6sc]

Typical white guy always looking to make a profit

[@hargisP2]

What price do you pay?

[@beanDoggins]

@hargisP2 Paracho guitars are very unique. Just like anyone would choose a taylor or Martin. You get a certain guitar because it's something you want, specifically. After getting several guitars from there, as well as from here in the US, I've noticed that a good starting price for a guitar in Paracho is about 600-800. Keep in mind that these are hand-made and everyone is very unique.

[@fubartotale3389]

Sue Foley, so talented, so beautiful, wonderful player, lovely voice. One of those rare people.

[@chadglass7705]

I love seeing footage of where guitars are made, particularly this type.

[@rubenalcantara1581]

I couldnt believe wat my eyes were seeing. Im a fan from Guadalajara, and Im so glad you visit this city. I hope you had a great time here. Im glad you find a great guitar, something you like and a quality made guitar you can play around the world and show to your fellow musicians, so they can see what Paracho has to offer. Also I hope someday you are able to play here in Mexico so I have a chance to watch you live.

[@SueFoleyOfficial]

Thank you so much for your comment. I absolutely loved Guadalajara and can't wait to return. I also hope I can play a show in Mexico one day.

[@vrcimino1250]

Thank you for paying tribute to these great skilled craftsmen who still do things by hand instead of the cnc stuff we get. I will share this with my Spanish students at the high school and my guitar class. Those guitar players on the video would do so well here as musicians but unfortunately they may never get a chance. And thanks for your great playing Sue, definitely look forward to seeing you here in Oregon whether it be at the Waterfront Blues Festival in PDX or wherever. I have visited this town in Ecuador out of curiosity and found it to be similar to Paracho. I found this online to share with anyone interested: In Southern Ecuador, lies a small village about 30 kilometers east of Cuenca where guitar-making is a way of life. San Bartolome is a picturesque town located on a hill with several guitar shops along the main road. No one really knows when the guitar-making tradition began, but it dates back at least 200 years, and many families can trace their own family guitar-making traditions to a 100 years back or more. There are about 10 guitar-makers in this town, most of the from the safe family.. When in San Bartolome, one can visit the studios and homes of the guitar makers and see the guitars are made. This offers travellers an opportunity to support these artisans, interact with them directly, learn first hand about their trade, and perhaps purchase a fine handmade guitar to take back home. I've heard a little about these luthiers' workshops in the village of San Bartolome. Has anyone gone to visit the instrument makers, or bought an instrument from them?

[@rumpledskin7971]

Magical place. Could get lost here for eternity. Each instrument is an exquisite hand-crafted beauty -- reasonably priced too. Adore Sue Foley -- lady plays the two genres I absolutely love -- the blues and flamenco.

[@bamgrok]

RAAAAAADDDD !! This is fascinating!!!

[@DwainDwight]

that spruce & cypress Alejandro Granados guitar sounded amazing. I could listen to you play that all day.

[@robertoaguilar1057]

Salvador is my favorite luthier and I met Carlos Piña waaay back in 97. Great story, thanks for posting!

[@juanespinosa8064]

Beautiful guitars ❤ De la mejor qualidad !

[@juanespinosa8064]

The very first guitar you played , i believe the " flamenco" one ,was so beautiful, with the rosette design,was my favorite.

[@mojoefelix]

Love the video. Thank you! I am proud owner of a 1980's master-grade fully-handmade Paracho-made classical guitar. Mine is beautiful palo escrito (Mexican rosewood) back and sides with spruce top and very toneful. Ebony fretboard. I purchased it about 6 months ago here in SoCal. It had been completely neglected and dehydrated for 35 years so it had big cracks both front and back. (I paid only $25 for it with OHSC). I closed the cracks with hydration and reglued them and then re-glued the bridge which had come off. The saddle was missing, so I made a new bone saddle. Now I play it daily. Happy that I have been able to rescue it. 😀

[@tommc49]

They were all beautiful. I especially liked the two tone on at 18:00 just because it was so different. Both the one you bought are excellent. Thanks for sharing the experience.

[@gsdfan8455]

I could listen to Salvador play all day. Also I absolutely dig your style of the blues Sue. I got to see you once, and I hope to catch you live again. Thanks for sharing

[@SueFoleyOfficial]

You're so welcome. I'm glad you enjoyed this.

[@soniamolina7615]

Great experience b there i like to know what price you pay on the second guitar o like to visit myself AND find one similar thanks

[@hermanodejesus7264]

Your technique is next to PERFECT

[@guillermoazul220]

Beautiful !! Absolutely everything, quite beautiful ..

[@hermanodejesus7264]

Esa guitarra del minuto 10 y 11 suna bien y luce DE MARAVILLA

[@billmiller7138]

The harlequin guitar was quite interesting! Thanks for documenting, your trip, and the beautiful, playable pieces of art! See you soon!

[@domi7171]

Great video, I love this, a true music lover on the road, very surprised.

[@davestambaugh7282]

That highly figured wood is really beautiful but it is very prone to cracking.

[@shiroumxm2052]

cool how you mix diferent techniques.. sometimes very pentatonic and folk and other very classical arpegios and flamenco "rasgueo abanico" cool. You play very nice

[@juanespinosa8064]

And ,i believe she was playing a blues riff at the beginning of the video.

[@garyfreedom]

Great, interesting and candid video. Thanks Sue!

[@davidpelham4861]

After many (maybe 20?) trips to Paracho I was happy to see those builders that I now count as friends. You must have had some good advance info as you wound up in the shops of some of the best on your first day! Congrats on your new guitars!

[@paulhendriks7157]

Great video. Just visited Paracho from Guanajuato last week and it was a brilliant experience.

[@georgefriou5448]

Thank you Sue. You bring so much to the world of music and my world as a fan. Great piece!

[@FinnBjerke]

What a wonderfull guitar journey - great film thx for posting.

[@BenjaminGonzalez-wv3cy]

That guitar you are playing at the 12:00 mark is so beautiful and it sounds so great. Very beautiful quality. Castillo outdid themselves with all those guitars…🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤

[@camouflagesoldier1994]

how cool, thank you for the ride.

[@tony33herreras21]

La primera guitarra tiene un sonido fantastico

[@kriskozolanka2665]

You have a hard choice to make...you are not only a versatile guitarist but an inspirational one. I will be watching more of you performances.

[@Materva-hv6sz]

Salvador Castillo is very well known and respected. He's one of the few non Spaniards who are known for building flamenco guitars

[@SrJurado]

Yes he is, an Spaniard. An American one.

[@FiddleSticks800]

You are living a bucket list dream of mine. I refinished with a French polish a beautiful Enos Hernandez guitar from that area. Solid ceder top and solid palo escrito back and sides. For the $150 I paid, I couldn’t be happier.

[@obiem9319]

Awesome!

[@ShaneSpeal]

VG sent me here and now I need to go to Paracho!

[@OilCanHarry2U]

Ahhhhh….Mexico ❤

[@SueFoleyOfficial]

I agree. I love Mexico and can't wait to return.

[@davidmacfadyen1127]

I've just seen this for the first time. Lovely clip. Beautiful instruments. Thanks Sue

[@DiegoCarmonaStickGuitar]

I just learn today of the existence of that place.

[@Anastasiocatalán]

Beautiful guitars indeed, and you’re amazing playing them as well.

[@luijacat]

Awesome video.. really like the production. I was not expecting such an awesome show..

[@bobfuhr4520]

Gonna buy one tomorrow. Only 70$ .they have about 10 in my local music store. Viva México.

[@chrismcdermott7766]

That's a trip Ive been dreaming of for a long time. You just sold me. Those were some beautiful guitars. I hope they don't crack. Thanks for the video.

[@Cancer7641]

Fantastyczny reportaż pięknie brzmienia gitar dziękuję pozdrawiam z Polski

[@pepitolozano]

Thank you for sharing

[@georgestevens1502]

Would love to hear you play The Third Man theme on one of your acoustic guitars.

[@paulechols]

Very cool

[@DonavanOlson-l8p]

Thanks Sue. I love this. Be safe,honey. Have fun. I gotta run, darling. Regards and best wishes always. You're so inspiring. A gift to all who admire you. Damn. Wish I would of tried to pursue music,but I couldn't. It's hard to be me. I have mental conditions too,but so did many others. Thanks again for the info,too.

[@mj7den]

I'm wondering if there were any regrets leaving behind the very unusual guitar made of the six woods starting at 16:57? Both tops coming from Canadian Spruce and Ava woods with the Mexican Rosewood and Cypress back? Thanks for taking us there.

[@nicholasgeorge7825]

That first Luthier is a ripping player. They call spruce "pino abeto." And cocobolo is a darn good tonewood. Palo escrito looks good too.

[@therory6888]

So cool!

[@J.Dove3D]

Very cool. We are on the same mission. A Flamenco Blanco for me. Spanish cypress,ebony,and spruce combined is a wonderful thing. The percussive note, not as much sustain but more "air" in the note. Love your tone on your flamenco negra, you will have to record some tunes wiNegra, Got my hands full with my Mule and Rodebald Hoyer right now though. Thank you for the download. Please come to Virginia and put on some shows this year. Would love to have you. Happy New Year.

[@carlquance2542]

Amazing video, and an amazing guitarist. ❤

[@jeffhildreth9244]

Excellent video. I have a 2006 Carlos Pina Flamenco cut-away. bought new. Time for a trip to Paracho.

[@CarlosJosedeMiranda]

incrivel , muito interessante Mexico Guitars.......💥💥

[@kevinmaillet4712]

But does it djent? Lol. Sorry, bad joke. Great video!

[@daveed4475]

Thank you for sharing this Sue. I've long wanted to make this pilgrimage - for now you've provided it vicariously to a degree. Congrats on your new guitars, and I hope your son loves his. My cousin's husband knows many of the luthiers there - he is also a luthier in L.A. He performs with the increasingly popular Alt Latino band "Las Cafateras" - if you haven't heard them, I recommend a listen!

[@SueFoleyOfficial]

You are so welcome! I hope you do make the journey one day. It's so worth it. I'll keep an eye out for that band. Thanks for the tip

[@BlueBeeMCMLXI]

That was a lure to Parecho. Excellent.

[@isaacbulay4061]

Congratulations! 😊

[@shiroumxm2052]

Vicente Amigo had a signature guitar from one of these guys from Paracho.. I cant´remember the name!

[@BenjaminGonzalez-wv3cy]

Can you them them to do a video on how they build their Ckassical Guitars?🎸 ❤❤❤

[@MiguelMora-kk3rt]

Aqui en iowa miro el video.mi gente de mi paracho se extraña

[@brentweaver3092]

You can’t go wrong buying a Castillo

[@donnaldasselin6126]

Thanks Sue I love classical also I have a Zapeda that I love and I would suggest From Nicaragua Zapeda is a third génération of luthier Cant send you a pick but its awesome Love you Sue and love thoses vidéos Are you coming to Montréal this summer ? I saw Rouyn Noranda only in Québec !! Party poeple in Rouyn I assure you Learn a few swear word for them .... Tabarnak and Calisse In a phrase ... Calisse vous êtes beau and vivre le Québec libre 1. You are beautiful and the second is a patriotic speech from here .... Viva a free Québec. Much love ... Rouyn is so far from Montréal ...hope you come at the blues fest in Montréal or Ottawa

[@camilo1455]

I have a Tres Pinos classical from Paracho that I got from my dad before he passed. It plays as good or better than an $800 Ramirez (that test was years ago, no telling what the Ramirez is worth now). Stays in tune forever and has a tone from guitar heaven. Warmer than the ones in the video (the "natural yellow" ones -- shares that finish), it has a mahogany neck and top, cocobolo back and rosewood sides, and again, I've never seen a better book-matched back. Everyday my brother and I are amazed at what those Mexican luthiers can do for the price (he comes over often to play it). Not sure what dad paid for it, but it was cheap. In the 80s he and his cousin would go down to the border bars and play for tips, usually coming back with a cheap guitar for sale. He kept the best one and I'm glad he did -- it's a lifer...holy shit! He's right -- this has an ebony fretboard! Just realized that. Thanks, Sue, following you since your first gig at Antone's.

[@SueFoleyOfficial]

That's amazing. thank you for sharing your story.

[@DonSoledadGroup]

Great choice with the Castillo. I've played a few and my flamenco friends all agree his flamenco's are one our favorites and can be compared to Conde Hermanos from Madrid. I play a few Spanish made guitars but my current favorite is a replica of a 1974 Manuel Reyes blanca made by Alejandro Vazquez Rubio from Paracho. His brother is the well known builder in LA - German Vazquez Rubio. I've never been to Paracho but hope to go in the not so distant future. Cheers from Florida!

[@agustinbarrios1944]

You should try a Guitar build by Carlos Pina. I have one and I love it 🙂

[@ElectricPulse100]

Amazing video.

[@oldskoolpautz]

Very Kool. U educated me today!! 😎Never knew of Parache' mecca of world renown acoustic hand built beautiful guitars!! Thanks and U play those licks real nice Susan.. Rock on!! 🤠🌹🌹🌹

[@garysmith3097]

Wow! They let you play those guitars with that belt buckle on.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Probably they keep demo models on hand.

[@oscarmaximiano990]

Muito simpática essa moça.

[@JD-uy7zt]

Dang ur really good on guitar..and cute😊

[@carlhenriksvedberg9148]

Very Interesting kr

[@SueFoleyOfficial]

Thanks for watching

[@boggy6060]

Almoraima by paco sounds incredible.

[@510maestro]

At the first shop the gentleman played Almoraina. It’s from Paco de Lucia.

[@ozguruysal5792]

Thanks for sharing this Sue. I'm aiming to go later this year. How is Paracho as town to stay for a few months and learn to play the guitar?

[@SueFoleyOfficial]

Paracho is a great little town. Very beautiful and the people are friendly a helpful. I think you would enjoy it

[@JC-oj8uz]

Those Huipe guitars are fantastic! How would you rate them vs the Castillo guitars?

[@juandejesusmendez1412]

Cuánto costaron esas hermosuras de guitarras ? Siempre he tenido miedo de viajar a Michoacán pues la inseguridad que transmiten los medios como la TV no ayuda a confiar en viajar seguro a Paracho.

[@andresglez.206]

Y cuanto fue el costo de la primera guitarra que compraste del SR. Salvador??

[@SFVMotobike]

What’s with the rectangular part above (left) the sound hole?

[@meralmaradia4774]

What is that place is called where they put a big guitar ?

[@GuitarType01]

They sound beautiful. I wonder how these guitars compare to something like Fender, Martin, or even Taylor guitars? 🤔

[@shiroumxm2052]

these are much better

[@jeffhildreth9244]

Those are all factory made. No comparison.

[@EricM-gm5wz]

Hand made with pride for lower price. These people have a reputation for a reason. Known as world capital of guitar making. Lots of those woods are native not banned Brazilian imports

[@johnhefter3815]

Great video! Next time rent the ELLLL CAMEEEENO!

[@Linuxmusica]

Another type of music with a spanish guitar (no flamenco) is classical, as the composer Francisco Tárrega or Albeniz. It's awesome an american interested about spanish guitars, if you have the opportunity travels to Spain to test spanish guitars too and make concerts with flamencos players and singers. Sorry my bad english. I suppose you'll never read this commentary, but thanks for this video and for your music.

[@luisfernandocabrera3454]

What price was the last guitar you bought? Thanks for your video

[@dherna12]

Great video! How did you manage the flight with two guitars? Carry on, checked in, or did you buy a ticket for each? I’m visiting family near Paracho and planning on making a trip to buy a guitar.

[@markmanning2921]

Cocobolo has a toxicity that will affect you in weird and woderful ways if you work it too much, some people react to it very quickly and others not so much. It is one of the most beautiful woods out there and is not very commonly used in guitars because a lot of wood workers refuse to work with it because of its toxicity. THIS guitar looks phenominal! also, you can marry me any day, ill clean house and cook, you just play guitar all day :) win win :)

[@JuanMartinez-sz5dn]

How much was each ?

[@MagnetProductionsInc]

This question may have been answered. But how did you get these 2 Guitars back to the United States? I assume that when you bought them the cases were not exactly TSA approved.

[@juancarlosramirez5146]

Anybody knows the name of the song that she plays with the guitar?

[@alexvazquez6360]

So how much did u pay for each guitar ???

[@fernandogarcia8991]

Para turistas anglosajones una traduccion de piezas y maderas de las guitarras para que entiendan las joyas que tienen en las manos no creen?

[@vrcimino1250]

Si gracias. Las otras joyas son los guitarristas que pagaria para poder ver aqui en los eeuu...

[@chrissullivan7839]

terrible mic whats the point, I can't hear the guitar well.

[@wonderlandrockopera]

I have snake wood now

[@SrJurado]

Spanish suits you well.

[@the.communist]

Paracho o borracho?

[@rudeboy8886]

Muy tosca con guitarras que no son tuyas , espero que por lo menos si hayas comprado aun que sea una .

[@tt-du6vc]

Le dio unos buenos madrazos con sus nudillos a una pobre guitarra. Compro dos.

[@vrcimino1250]

Tranquilo rudeboy.. Pago con un video de homenaje a ellos asi que habra mas clientes. Y compro dos.

[@tt-du6vc]

Hi Sue, very nice video! Do you like Pantera?

[@tt-du6vc]

Holy molly! You played with my favorite blues guitarist, Buddy Guy! I have an album of his. That is amazing.

[@Honkytaco]

Mama, we made it to KZbin 🥲