Preparing the sides for the back

Another video from 2006. This is a flamenca blanca which I think must have gone to Guitar Salon International.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwSX5hW89rU

#yomequedoencasafestival

If you are a fan of guitar photos you will know that they are very hard to take well. Furthermore, the label of a guitar does not jump out at you in real life nor in a photo. I am always very pleased when a guitarist makes the effort to do that with my guitar. Now, the point of this post is to celebrate generous gestures by musicians to help make this time a little more pleasant. Here is Maria José Tirado with a video.

Javier Riba has done more for my art than anyone ever could and was the first one to make sure that my name was front and centre on his cd. His video offering in this time of confinement is with his son and makes us remember that this time can be very much taken advantage of. Piazolla with Javier’s son Ángel.

Last but surely not least is Fernando Espí whose gift is in the form of sheet music, just see his facebook post of March 16 for details. Here is a little video he recorded before this all started.

 

Video with no sound

I know, we had some trouble getting this one uploaded, couldn’t edit and now we can’t even put music to it. It’s from a longer video so I will be publishing more excerpts from that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fl4RHZGRMxY

Short workshop in Finland – 2006

The Tampere Guitar Festival is coming up again in June and I like to remember my experience there in 2006. I was invited to do a weeklong workshop on guitar-making in Granada. The experience and the people were great. In this photo you can see all of the teachers: Aliéksey Vianna, myself, Àlex Garrobé, Lorenzo Micheli and Enrico Bronzi. I guess it is obvious what they were teaching. Midnight canoe rides were fun too with some great sunsets. My students were guitar-making students at the nearby Ikaalinen institute. For a few years the organizers hosted a luthier’s exhibition but I never participated. Actually I think they started that the year after I was there. The teachers and players invited to this event have always been top-notch and it has really become a reference festival.

New series of short videos

Oh my that was a long time ago, before digital cameras. Photo by Manuel Ruiz.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLJiuwJL3rE