> To Roger, > > With regard to the Portuguese guitar in the Canadian Collection of old > instruments. You will notice that they refer to me (Fernandez Music) > as the authority on such Portuguese instruments. This is because they > really do not know anything about these instrument. Their date of 1940 > is simply a guess on their part. Just because something is on the > internet does not make it true. > > Since 1971 I have traveled to Portugal many times and I have visited > many instrument makers in Portugal--e.g., Oscar Cardoso, Fernando > Meireles, Gilberto Gracio, Antonio Pinto Carvalho, João Palmeiro, > Domingos Machado--where I have seen many old instruments. I have also > visited the splendid private collection of Portuguese fretted > instruments held by Jose Lucio in Lisbon. Based upon such first hand > experiences, I feel that the Andrade instrument is pre-1900 for the > reasons I mentioned in my previous e-mail. > > Nevertheless, what is needed here is a better documented connection > about this instrument. Frank Nordberg has mentioned that the 1899 > Zimmermann catalogue has instruments such as the Andrade guitarra in > it. Let's have a look at that. > > The other proof would be a catalogue from Alban Voigt.. Does anyone > know anything about Alban Voigt and Company of London? Since the > Andrade guitarra was imported by them, the question becomes what were > their dates of operation? When did they import Portuguese guitarras? > If they were importing them in the mid-20th century I think we would > see a lot more of them. > > Ron Fernandez
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