[SML] Flamenco Floor

Nathan nathan_capriglione at hotmail.com
Sat Jun 18 20:57:30 UTC 2016


I'm a digester and I never post, but I actually have first-hand experience with a floor built for flamenco.  I live in the Albuquerque area and we have a 2-week flamenco festival every summer.  They bring in artists from Spain and our flamenco floor gets set up and torn down several times during the festival as there are 2-3 venues and only one floor. It also gets used several other times throughout the year.  I didn't build the floor, but I've set it up more times than I like to count.
IIRC, our floor is 4'x8' panels built out of 2x2 and 3/4" ply.  I don't know what your requirements are, but the Spanish flamenco artists insist on mic-ing the floor (each panel).  To this end, the floor is built with 2x2 around the edge of the lid and then eight "ribs" that jut in toward the center so there is space for a microphone.  There is also a shallow notch cut into the bottom of the center frame on all four sides, to accommodate the mic cable.  We generally use either SM57s or PZMs.  The panels are then, of course, all coffin locked together.  The floor is actually installed over a layer of carpet padding, I believe for sound deadening purposes.  Since we mic everything, that keeps it from getting too "boomy".  
I'm not sure if pictures should be attached or embedded, but below is a rough diagram of the structure of the floor. Hopefully, it shows up.  I haven't set it up in a couple years, so I don't remember the exact layout of ribs, but it is similar to this.  It has worked well for us and I don't think they have every really had any problems with it.  Let me know if you have any questions on it.  I might have a picture on my computer at home I can send you and I can probably get a hold of the guy who built it to get more specifics.  Feel free to contact me off-list.
Nathan Capriglione





> lots of experience building sprung floors for ballet companies /  studios up and down the east coast . . 
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> but this has to be a temp stage . .  4 x 8?s ( probably coffin locked )  for flamenco 
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> i?m thinking a top surface of hardwood tongue and groove . . over ply . . 
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> want it to ?ring? nicely .  . . 
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> don?t think lots of folks have had to build temp / portable staging specifically for flamenco . . and I think I can come up 
> with a good ?formula?   but was curious if anyone out there had by chance actually built one specifically for this purpose
 		 	   		  
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