Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Measuring the Checchucci Guitar at Boston MFA

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This evening I'm in Boston having finished the first day of measuring the baroque guitar by Jacopo Checchucci, Livorno, 1628. Tomorrow...
Monday, April 16, 2012

Repairing Lutes and Guitars

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It is inevitable that my instruments are damaged in one way or another. I expect to have one in my shop at any given time, but my clients a...
Thursday, March 15, 2012

Building a Voboam Guitar - The "Rope" Banding

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Museé de la musique E.2087 If there is one characteristic feature of French baroque guitars and those built by the Voboam fam...
Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Building a Voboam Baroque Guitar - The Barring

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Unshaped barring on the Voboam(left) and the beginning of a Lacôte (right). I always put a lot of thought into the barring pattern tha...
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Monday, February 27, 2012

Building a Voboam Baroque Guitar -- The Rosette

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The last post in this series was February 8. The lozenge--shaped elements that form the rosette and border the soundboard are a distinct...
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Thursday, February 23, 2012

Lacôte 10 String Guitars in Paris

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author's photo Yesterday I visited the Musée de la musique  in Paris to examine two Lacôte 10 string guitars -- decacordes , as they...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Marx Unverdorben Lutes in Barcelona

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A wall size caricature of Issac Albéniz greets staff and visitors at the museum's documentation center Lute makers always seem to b...