If you know which town he was in, perhaps there might be tax or property records there, or advertisements in the papers.
On 22 Oct 2006, at 21:30, ron fernandez wrote: > 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 >
