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The latter is mentioned a number of times, with reference to fluted-back guitars / vihuelas, in the historical accounts given in an important book by Jose L. Romanillos Vega and Marian Harris Winspear, "The Vihuela de Mano and the Spanish Guitar", The Sanguino Press, Guijosa 2002.
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Vihuela - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This site is selling one of the most comprehensive and complete reference books on Spanish guitar makers from the past to present day. ... Romanillos, classical guitar, acoustic guitar, guitar...
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The Vihuela de Mano and The Spanish Guitar: A Dictionary of the makers of plucked and bowed Musical Instruments by José Romanillos Vega and Marian Harris Winspear. 654 pages with 28 appendixes. Hardbound $199.95.
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"...when the night came, tortured by the usual melancholy of my thoughts, taking a vihuela, I went out by a back door to the fields, to put aside my worries, and to enjoy the fresh wind that was blowing..." Rojas, 1603 ... Vihuela and Viola da mano...
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Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Vihuela de mano. Vihuela de mano. Information about Vihuela de mano in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. ... (redirected from Vihuela de mano)
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This instrument is called a Vihuela de Mano..... a hand plucked vihuela. Vihuela was a Spanish Medieval generic term for Viol. There was a bowed viol, a viol played with a pick and one like mine. The vihuela was Renaissance Spain's answer to the lute.
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The Vihuela and the Viola da mano ... Much of the repertoire contained in these books will be very familiar to modern lutenists, not least because the vihuela and viola da mano appear on the title pages of tablature devoted to other instruments including the lute.
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He is in addition a leading performer on the vihuela de mano. Wallace's works for solo classical guitar and his songs for voice, guitar and lute reflect his colorful career, drawing on influences ranging from avant garde to medieval to the blues.
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