Juan Francisco Salvador Jiménez – YA VENDIDA

Esta mañana visité a la viuda y la hija de Juan Francisco en su casa de La Cañada de San Urbano. Quizá lo conozcan por ser bisnieto de Antonio de Torres Jurado. En la última planta de la casa está el taller, más o menos como se quedó hace 10 años cuando murió el guitarrero. El motivo de la visita fue ver la madera que venden como dicen “para que por fin se convierte en guitarras”. Yo no necesito madera ahora pero sí hice unas fotos para que otros pueden ver que efectivamente es buena madera: Caviuna, PS Madagascar, Cocobolo y Amazonas (no he visto otras cosas). Unicamente tiene aros y fondo – todos casados en juegos. Tengo su teléfono y se lo pasaré a cualquiera que tenga interés en ver la madera.

I visited the wife and the daughter of Juan Francisco this morning at their house in La Cañada de San Urbano. You might know him as the great-grandson of Antonio de Torres Jurado. On the top floor of the house is the workshop and very little seems to have been altered since his death in 2010. The reason for my visit was to see the wood which they are selling so that “it will finally be made into guitars”. I am really not in need of wood at this time but I took some photos so that others could see that the wood is perfectly suited for making guitars. Caviuna, Madagascar rosewood, Cocobolo and Amazon rosewood. Backs have been matched to sides and are to be sold in sets. I have their telephone number and can pass it on to anyone who is interested in seeing the sets.

IV Festival Internacional de la Guitarra de Granada

The European Guitar Foundation has made a real effort despite the restrictions on public events and will offer us an interesting festival this year. See this link for the programme.

I am particularily looking forward to the concerts by Rafael Aguirre, Isabel Martínez and Juan Habichuela Nieto. There are also some guitarists whom I have yet to hear play and I am sure I will be pleasantly surprised. The dates of the guitar-making competition are as yet to be announced but the word is that it too is going ahead. I applaud everyone involved for going ahead with this festival.

Master’s in Classical Guitar Performance


Registration is now open https://www.upo.es/postgrado/Master-en-Interpretacion-de-la-Guitarra-Clasica?opcion=14&fbclid=IwAR0vEqL-Dsh4kRpQnpr1fVfPs-bF_xbhfOKbi9ngc7ZryG6lgvvG9onicHM

Rosette before shaping


The real link to the concert

It seems there was technical difficulties with Sunday’s concert. I had the same problems that you all. Here is a link to the video which you can see at any time. It really is very good.and interesting. Despite the problems it seems it was a success and more like it are apparently being planned. For this video I had to start playback and then roll back to the beginning and then it worked well, nothing is perfect I guess.