SHABATZ GUITAR DUO consists of former professor and student, Marko Erdevicki and Stevan Jovic. The duo is dedicated to performing original compositions and arrangements for two guitars from the first half of the 19th century on historical instruments. In the video you can see Stevan playing my Antonio de Lorca copy.
You can sure see where Barbero got his ideas.
Barbero, Santos, Santos
Many businesses, especially in Spain are grinding to a halt. The idea is that we can avoid any more contact than the strictly necessary and I am fully supporting this but the economic result will be hard on many, many people. In my case it will actually be against the law for me to go in to work from today until April 9. I do have work that needs doing and I would love to have some guitarists come by to try out my latest guitars but that is not going to happen for now.
So how about those of you with severe Guitar Acquisition Syndrome, what to do? Dealer showrooms closed down, makers not opening their doors to anyone. Needless to say no one is travelling to Granada to buy guitars and guitar exhibitions have been cancelled. So what is left? If you have been drooling over pictures of a guitar and are a hair away from shelling out for a new beauty now is not the time to step back. If you are willing to buy sight unseen now is the time to pump your money into the economy and take the plunge. Most makers will give you a trial period as long as you pick up the bill for shipping. And due to the slowdown a lot of them might suddenly have guitars on hand that they can part with.
The book El Arte de la Guitarra which María Isabel López published with photographs of my work was based on an exhibition of those photographs. Here are some images from that exhibition.
Some very fine company indeed when I attended the opening of the Torres exhibition in Córdoba in 2007. One of my Torres copies was on display there.