This guitar made by Manuel Soto y Solares (1839-1906) has a particularly interesting history. It has just been restored by my friend Andres Dominguez in Sevilla.
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James Greenberg
I found this story so delightful--partly because I already knew pieces of it--that I would like to share it.
In 1945 he began moonlighting, making his own guitars at home. In 1955, he opened a workshop at Ministriles No 6, in Madrid.
Although Antonio has built some flamenco guitars, he prefers to build concert classical instruments, and currently almost all of his guitars are of this kind.
The Spanish luthier Casimiro Lozano Carrillo was born in 1954 in Casasimarro. As a young man he began to frequent the workshop of Vícente Carrillo, run by his widow Gabriela Casas.
Francisco Navarro Garcia (b. 1963 began building guitars when he was about twenty, and has become one of Mexico's finest Luthiers.· In 1989 he won 1st place in a National competition which is held annually in Paracho, Mexico.
Born in Granada in 1960, the Spanish luthier Jose Marin Plazuelo is the nephew and disciple of Antonio Marin Montero. In 1974, like his cousin Francisco Santiago Marin before him, began an apprenticeship with his uncle...