You can translate the full site to your prefered language by using the flags located in the top-left corner, maybe that could help. These nine vihuelas are not made by amateur luthiers conducted by a professional one. The real thing about this project is that all the vihuelas are made by teenagers, living in a town in Spain, with no previous idea of how a vihuela looks like or even what instrument it is... this is about a teacher trying to do something different in his classroom, with his students, without barely support and tools. This is about how they get invaluable support from John Griffiths, in the opposite corner of the earth!, how the students even build the needed tools, how the Sociedad de la Vihuela gets also involved, and how Cuerdas Pulsadas offered for free all the needed strings and frets... among other things. I think that this is pretty nice! Kind regards.
2014-04-25 15:49 GMT+02:00 R. Mattes <[1][email protected]>: On Fri, 25 Apr 2014 10:31:33 +0200, David Morales wrote > A few months ago, John Griffiths shared with us a project that was > brewing in Trujillo (Caceres, Spain) ... The idea was so simple > that it seems crazy to us: students technology institute > "Francisco Orellana" were engaged in the construction of nine > vihuelas, with no previous knowledge of lutherie, without having > previously known the instrument and barely have materials and > tools for a work of such magnitude ... Maye I miss something utterly obvious (I can't read spanish, so the link doesn't really provide too much inforamtion for me), but what is the point of such an experiment? From what I get, they used some late 15th century paintig as a modell, but where did the (rather important) rest come from? John Griffiths? The neck/fingerboard/top joint doesn't look like anything I've seen in early (i.e. pre 1500) viola/vihuela iconography. But thank's for posting this link. It would be nice to learn a bit more about the rationale behind the project. Cheers, RalfD -- De conformidad con lo dispuesto en la Ley Organica 15/1999 de Proteccion de Datos de caracter Personal DAVID MORALES DE FRIAS, con domicilio en Salamanca, C/ Luis Vives, 6 - cuarto, le informa que los datos de caracter personal que facilite forman parte de un fichero, responsabilidad del mismo, para la gestion administrativa de los clientes. En el supuesto de que desee ejercitar los derechos que le asisten de acceso, rectificacion, cancelacion y oposicion dirija una comunicacion por escrito a la direccion indicada anteriormente o al correo electronico [2][email protected] con la referencia "Proteccion de Datos" incluyendo copia de su Documento Nacional de Identidad o documento identificativo equivalente. La informacion contenida en el presente mensaje de correo electronico es confidencial y su acceso unicamente esta autorizado al destinatario original del mismo, quedando prohibidos cualquier comunicacion, divulgacion, o reenvio, tanto del mensaje como de su contenido. En el supuesto de que usted no sea el destinatario autorizado, le rogamos borre el contenido del mensaje y nos comunique dicha circunstancia a traves de un mensaje de correo electronico a la direccion [3][email protected] -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. mailto:[email protected] 3. mailto:[email protected] To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
