2021
AL#142 p.62
Monica Esparza
▪ A positive review of this elaborate, gorgeous, thorough, and expensive book by Josep Melo. Mentions Pepe Romero.
2012
AL#110 p.65
Federico Sheppard Monica Esparza
▪ A 45 minute DVD of a 2010 workshop with early music specialist Jaume Bosser on constructing an authentic period Vihuela de Mano.
2006
AL#88 p.66
Alexander Batov Sebastian Nunez Veronica Estevez
▪ Detailed info on locating plans for authentic vihuelas.
2005
AL#82 p.63 BRB7 p.530 read this article
Bryan Johanson
▪ The author really, really likes this history of the vihuela. But you have to read it in the French.
2004
AL#80 p.59 BRB7 p.526 read this article
Bryan Johanson
▪ The reviewer gushes about the detail and quality of research that went into the book, as well as the authors’ enthusiasm for their subjects.
2003
AL#73 p.60 BRB7 p.522 read this article
Bryan Johanson
▪ The reviewer pronounces this book to be “a massive achievement to which the reader can return again and again for information, insights, and pleasure.” A pretty good indication that he found it useful and valuable.
1999
AL#60 p.49 read this article
Robert Lundberg
▪ Obtaining plans for a vihuela.
1992
AL#32 p.48 BRB3 p.262
Jose Romanillos
▪ Scholarship on the trail of a vanished instrument.
1990
AL#23 p.24 BRB2 p.414
Roberto Blinder Jose Yacopi
▪ Blinder interviews an Argentine instrument maker about his career, his guitars, wood, and strings. With 4 photos.
1987
AL#9 p.56 BRB1 p.499 read this article
Joseph-R. Johnson
▪ The reviewer finds that the book “falls short of being a thorough international bibliography, but will prove valuable to guitar and vihuela teachers, students, and luthiers.”
1987
AL#10 p.10 BRB1 p.362
John Rollins
▪ Recreating these instruments required deep research into antique literature and a search of centuries-old woodcuts and tapestries. Many such drawings and sketches illustrate this long article, as well as photos of instruments by the author and Raphael Weisman. A transcription of Rollins’ 1986 convention lecture.
1986
AL#5 p.53 BRB1 p.495 read this article
Christopher Allworth
▪ The reviewer finds the book to be “important and useful” to builders who wish to pursue the early viols.
1980
GALQ Vol.8#3 p.36 read this article
Wally Eubanks
▪ The vihuela (Spanish name for a stringed instrument of the renaissance age) is a guitar-like instrument and was used in Italy and Western Europe in the late 1400s to the early 1600s.