I am looking forward to months of practicing while I save up for a good flamenco guitar

I have owned and played several guitars from a couple of $40 chinese classicals, an antonio hermosa ah10, cordoba c5, and my current alhambra 5p - the Yamaha with a bone saddle has a volume equal or slightly louder than the 5p (significantly louder than the C5) and a tone that is almost as rich as the 5p but with the bright, raspy flamenco character

Top flamenco guitars are not mass produced in factories and are found only in specialized music stores

Because I play this guitar so much, it inevitably has suffered a couple of very minor dings, but nothing major, and has held up quite well to the abuse's of my poor Flamenco playing

but I'd be surprised if any of the other laminate side/solid top flamencos are much better in tone/volume

I wanted to commit to learning flamenco, but like so many others I did not have $2K to drop on a decent flamenco guitar (actually a good one will run you $3-$6K or more)