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Title: La
acústica musical y el diapasón de la guitarra.
Author: Salinas, Carlos.
Editorial: DAIAM. Buenos
Aires, 1974.
Language: Spanish.
Comments: The right way to
make a fretboard, historical notes and the tuning of the
guitar. |
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Title:
Violin varnishes.
Author: Josef & Reiner
Hammerl.
Language: English (traduced
from german).
Comments: A lot of
information about different chemical products -naturals
and sintethics- to get a good finishing on the wood before
polishing.
This book has a good chapter about tints (water based
tints and alcohol tints). |
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Title:
Vernici in liuteria.
Author: Carletti, Gabriele.
Editorial: G.Zanibon, Padva,
1984.
Language: Italian.
Comments: The author,
mastered in chemics, gives a lot of precisely information
about the varnishes chemistry for guitars and violins. |
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Title:
Origen e historia de la guitarra.
Author: Viglietti, Cedar.
Editorial: Albatros, Buenos
Aires, 1976.
Language: Spanish. |
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Title:
Making an archtop guitar.
Author: Benedetto, Robert.
Editorial: Centerstream
Publishing, California, 1994.
Language: English.
Comments: A lot of
information intended to the Archtop builder. This book has
a good chapter about woods and its selection thinking on
the tone of the final instrument. Very good advices to the
novice guitar maker to get a practic and commercial sense.
A cool chapter about the know-how of making a guitar to be
inserted in a commercial and professional business. |
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Title:
Principales características de las guitarras de autores
de renombre mundial.
Author: Castellano, Luis
Martín.
Language: Spanish.
Comments: This is not a book:
it is an article wich was delivered to the people who came
to the conference in may 15, 1938. This article is full of
information about characteristics such as: (rossettes,
heads, heels, fan bracing, bridges, etcetera) Santos
Hernández, Domingo Esteso, Arias, Torres, Pascual Viudez,
Enrique García and Simplicio. While this article is
almost imposible to get, if you ask me for it, I'll make a
copy for you. |
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Title: Classic
guitar construction.
Title: (también del mismo
autor) Steel string guitar construction.
Author: Sloane, Irving.
Editorial: E.P.Dutton, New
York, 1984.
Language: English.
Comments: This is a very
concise book. It has many information intended to
everybody who want to know what behind a classic
construction guitar is. |
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Title: Guitar
making - tradition and technology.
Author: Cumpiano, William -
Natelson Jonathan.
Editorial: Chronicle Books,
San Francisco, 1993.
Language: English.
Comments: Excelent book with
many pictures. It has a great chapter about woods and its
relation with the tone (classic guitars and acoustic steel
string guitars). It is a very useful book and very
complete... from the basic building to the finishing. |
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Title: Classic
finishing techniques.
Author: Allen Sam.
Editorial: Sterling
Publishing Co., Inc. New York, 1994.
Language: English.
Comments: Excelent: it is
intended to know how to polish with shellac. It has an
excelent chapter about wood preparing. |
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Title: The
spanish guitar.
Language: English - Spanish.
The Metropolitan Museum Of Art.
Madrid, 1991.
Comments: It has a great
chapter about vihuelas, the Ecuador and the Paris one.
Many pictures of portuguese and spanish guitars. |
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Title: Making
musical instruments.
Author: Ford, Charles.
Editorial: Faber & Faber,
London, 1979.
Language: English.
Comments: Excelent chapter
dedicated to the spanish guitar making writen by Jose
Romanillos. It has an excelent chapter about restauration
too, written by Friedelman Hellwig. |
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Title: Antonio
de Torres - Guitar maker, his life and work.
Author: Jose Romanillos.
Editorial: Element Books
Ltd., Great Britain, 1987.
Language: English.
Comments: Dedicated to
everyone who want to know about Antonio de Torres's life
and work. Excellent instruments gallery. |
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Title: Manuale
di liuteria - Indicazioni pratiche per le manutenzione e
la conservazione dello strumento e dell'arco.
Author: Lanaro, Luigi.
Editorial: Zanibon, Padva,
1987.
Language: Italian. |
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Title: The
violin makers.
Author: Mary Anne Alburger.
Editorial: Camelot Press
Ltd., Southtamptom, 1978.
Language: English.
Comments: Plenty of
interviews to english violin makers . In this book they
explain their working methods, their sthetic ideas, their
historical and cultural backgrounds to be able to produce
a high quality violin tone. A great chapter about old
instruments. |
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Title:
Guitars, Music, History, Construction and Players. From
the Renaissance to Rock.
Author: Evans Tom & Mary.
Editorial: Facts On File, New
York, 1977.
Language: English.
Comments: A lot of classic,
flamenco, electric, acoustic, folk guitars and dobro
pictures. And a lot of historical stuff. |
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Title: Las
maderas argentinas. Su importancia industrial.
Author: Castro, Eduardo B.
Rosario, 1918. Rep. Argentina.
Language: Spanish.
Comments: A very important
text about a very scarse bibliography in spanish. Almost
every argentine timbers were included. |
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Title:
Tecnología de las maderas argentinas y del mundo.
Author: Tinto, José Claudio.
Editorial: Agrovet, Buenos
Aires, 1997.
Language: Spanish.
Comments: A lot and valuable
information about argentine woods; besides, kiln dry
methods related to the wood. An esential book. |
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Title: La
guitarra argentina.
Author: Muñoz, Ricardo.
Language: Spanish.
Comments: Written by a guru,
an argentine pioneer. An esential research about the
principal qualities of the spanish guitar, and how to
improve by their argentine guitar design. |
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Title:
Identificaciones vibrométricas.
Author: Muñoz, Ricardo.
Language: Spanish.
Comments: The only serious
research I know about the acoustic properties of the
native argentine woods for making a high quality guitar. |
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Title: La
madera y su secado artificial.
Author: De La Poza Lleida,
Jose Maria.
Editorial: Oikos - Tau,
Barcelona, España.
Language: Spanish. |
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