I am very happy with the results of my Santos copy but I have not had any recordings of it to share with you. Guitarist Marcus Toscano kindly recorded a few pieces and here is one of them: Testament d’Amelia by Miquel Llobet.
Category Archives: Guitar making
The Golden Ratio in the Granada guitar
Manuel Bellido and mathematician José Miguel Contreras presented the “golden guitar” yesterday at the University of Granada. The two collaborated using the golden ratio for the design of the guitar. This ratio occurs all over nature and is used in design to create things that the human eye finds immediately appealing. The golden ratio has been postulated for violin design perhaps more often than for guitar but on this occasion it seems to have been quite a success. Both Bellido and Contreras addressed the public and guitarist Marcus Toscano was responsible for the musical portion which was well-played and very nicely chosen. Among the attendees were many guitar-makers and aficionados, it seems that every day brings more activities centred around the guitar to our fine city.
Historic Guitar-makers’ Get-together
One of the original Granada School makers has just retired and saw fit to invite us all for a meal so that we could celebreate his over 40 years of building guitars. All of the established makers were there and I was happy to meet a few that I don’t see very often. To see everyone sitting down for a drink and talking about days gone by you never would have known that there had ever been problems between any of the makers. A few group photos were taken but I haven’t seen the results yet. I hope to be able to publish one here. We had a great time and between those that sing and those that play we had music all afternoon. Rafael Moreno and José López Bellido have fine singing voices and Juan Garcia Fernandez plays as well as many professional players.
Fitur
Vicente Coves is in Madrid at the tourism fair presenting the 2018 guitar festival.
Festival de la Guitarra de Granada – Video
If a picture is worth a thousand words surely a video is worth more. Here is the story of the first edition of the festival. There will be a second edition and it is looking very good. Kudos again to Vicente Coves.