An obvious point, but it would be a good idea to find out when João Miguel Andade was building.
On 22 Oct 2006, at 09:17, ron fernandez wrote: > > >> 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 > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
