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 read this article
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.