Prof. Dan Flickstein, Greatest Collection

Dan has been involved in education for over 30 years. Coached handball, was drama director, and dean.  Dan was later hired as an adjunct assistant-professor by Hofstra University where he taught for seven and one-half years.  The University granted Dan an adjunct assistant-professorship.  Dan retired from Brooklyn College after 44 years of service in 2014.

Dan has  been married to Sandra for 31 years, and have three children, Amy, Nancy and Eden.

Dan continued to pursue guitar playing sporadic lessons until the age of 16 and at seventeen took some additional lessons from a very good jazz guitarist.

When about 50, Dan passed by a restaurant which advertised a classical guitarist every Wednesday and Saturday.  That man became his teacher for about 15 years, and it was he who taught Dan finger-style and acquainted him with classical music, which has since become Dan's favorite type of music. Even this very day, while driving, Dan listened to his Mozart, and his collection of Spanish Music.

     Dan became interested in the guitar, but not only the music the instrument produced, but the construction of the instrument as well.  Soon become aware of the various woods, the types of bracing, glues, finishes, etc. 

 In 2008, while looking for a reasonably priced Brazilian Rosewood guitar, Dan saw a Bellucci guitar online.  He was leery about purchasing an instrument from Paraguay.  I asked Maestro Bellucci a question via mail, and the next morning Maestro Bellucci called me personally.  I was impressed.  Renato was so honest and sincere.  It was a great moment for me.  Renato Bellucci guitars now occupy part of every day of my life.  They are a great pleasure to hear and to see - works of art.  As great a day as it was when I met my teacher of classical music, it was that wonderful to meet Renato through his website.