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  • i saw manitas de plata (silverhands) use the technique playing flamenco back in the 60's. he did it during his pyrotechnics zone during a "sevillana" (in that same piece he also crossed the E and the A string to produce a snare drum effect)

    Guitar Fridays: Two-Handed Tapping Michael Alan Nelson 2009

  • In the midst of a _sevillana_ I came out from the shadows of the kiosk and walked without a sound of rattling pebble or cracking twig, along a path which the moon had not yet found.

    The Car of Destiny Armand [Illustrator] Both 1901

  • Todos sabemos quien es Marta del Castillo, esa joven sevillana de 17 años que desapareció el día 24 de Enero.

    WordPress.com Top Blogs 2009

  • Todos sabemos quien es Marta del Castillo, esa joven sevillana de 17 años que desapareció el día 24 de Enero.

    WordPress.com Top Blogs 2009

  • Quebracho group; another was found to be carrying a sevillana, a kind of knife that's quite unsuitable for peeling apples or slicing bread. demonstration by various left wing groups going on outside the Israeli embassy.

    Atlas Shrugs 2009

  • gracias la sevillana December 18, 2007 7:07 AM # | Delete tnx for making this template, great design i must add! do more pls

    Beckett 2006

  • Ramón Palacios lasted one season in Spain—billed as El Azteca, he fought in the same rings as the legendary Manolete and Joselito—before a severe goring forced him back to Veracruz with a lame left leg. Suki’s father grew up listening to Abuelo Ramón’s stories along with the instantaneous revisions by his wife, an upper-class sevillana he’d seduced at the height of his success.

    The Lady Matador’s Hotel Cristina García 2010

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