José Luis Romanillos - "La Violeta" 1984
José Luis Romanillos - "La Violeta" 1984
Overview
Overview
José Luis Romanillos Vega was born in Madrid in 1932, where he started his cabinet-making apprenticeship at the age of thirteen. In 1956, he moved to England to work in a hospital in Epsom and a few months later a hospital in London. Five years later, José Luis Romanillos, made his first Spanish guitar in London.
Encouraged by the English guitarist Julian Bream in 1970, J. L. Romanillos set up a guitar-making workshop in the village of Semley, Wiltshire.
Romanillos’ guitars have received recognition for their sound quality as well as for their aesthetical appearance from guitarists worldwide. Pure sound and harmonic balance of the strings are what Romanillos looked for and achieved in his quest of the subtle “Spanish sound”. The Daily Mail has called him “the Stradivari of the guitar” and the Italian magazine Sei Corde “the most important living stringed instrument maker”.
J. L. Romanillos has given courses on Spanish guitar making in numerous countries as well as lectures and seminars about the organology of the instrument. He has also given lectures on the history and development of the vihuela de mano and the Spanish guitar. In addition, he was a member of the Crafts Council of Great Britain for ten years. He is living in Guijosa, a rural district annexed to Sigüenza in the northern part of the province of Guadalajara in Spain, since 1995. In collaboration with his wife Marian, he published a dictionary of stringed-instrument makers and guitar-makers of Spain titled “The Vihuela de Mano and the Spanish Guitar” in 2002.
This beautiful instrument was built by José Luis Romanillos in 1984 and is called “La Violeta”. It is an unbelievable instrument for both its sound and aesthetic qualities. This guitar is a very true and sincere instrument. The separation of the voices is perfect and the sustain is fantastic. This guitar not only is a great piece of art and history but also a beautifully sounding instrument with a wide range of colours. The condition is very good, with only a few very well-repaired and stable hair-line cracks on the top. All parts original.
| Luthier: | José Luis Romanillos |
| Construction year: | 1984 |
| Top: | Spruce |
| Back and sides: | Indian rosewood |
| Scale: | 648 mm |
| Nut: | 52 mm |
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