On March 20 I travelled to Madrid to make a presentation about Santos Hernández the great guitar-maker. I was invited thanks to the study I made of his 1924 guitar which had belonged to Andrés Segovia. That was back in 2015 and was published in Roseta magazine. Below is the poster for the event and as you can see Javier Somoza, Joan Pellisa and Cristina Bordás also participated. Javier knows exactly how to make that guitar sound great and told us a little about Andrés Segovia and his intentions in donating different guitars to various museums. Joan has been studying the tools and jigs that are conserved from Santos’ workshop and has reached some interesting conclusions about how Santos worked and why. As for Cristina’s presentation I was very interested in her analysis of “Cultura Material” which is something I was not familiar with.

The next day I was able to visit the Historical Museum of Madrid and see the two guitars they have on display there, Juan Moreno and Hijos de González. Thanks Raquel. And thank you to Inmaculada Seldas from the Musical Library and the organizers of Symphonos Festival. I also visited Yunah Park on the same trip. I have known her for years and greatly respect her work but I had never managed to see her workshop, a great pleasure.