I have tried to find when João Miguel Andrade was building. I have consulted the 400 page work entitled, A Guitarra Portuguesa, 1999 written by Pedro Caldeira Cabral (1999); A Guitarra: bosquejo histórico, by Armando Simões (1974), Instrumentos Musicais Poulares Portugueses, by Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira (2000). These are the major books on this subject. There is no reference to João Miguel Andrade.
I am not sure what to do with this lack of information on him. The label gives his name and then says "Fabrica e Amazem de Instrumentos de Corda" which means "Factory and Store of String Instruments". Was he really just a store. The label does not say he was a constructor. Does anyone out there have any other information? Ron Fernández -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
