JOSÉ ROMANILLOS | Classical GUITAR MAKER – Part 01
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Master Luthier José Romanillos became famous by building the guitars for Classical Guitar Virtuoso Julian Bream. He his one of the last icons in Spanish guitar making tradition.
José Luis Romanillos Vega (b.17-6-1932, Madrid) was apprenticed to a cabinet maker when he was thirteen. In 1956, after national service in the Spanish Army, he left for England, where he worked as a nurse in a mental hospital for three years. In 1961 he attempted his first guitar, aided by a library book and using the kitchen table as a work bench. One guitar led to another during four years in Spain and a return to England where he has remained, though maintaining close links with his native land.
A meeting with Julian Bream in 1969 led to an invitation to use part of a workshop in Wiltshire where he produced a guitar for Julian Bream that he played for three years. In 1973 he made a guitar for him which he played in concerts and used for various recordings for at least twelve years. Romanillos now works from his own premises and his waiting list for instruments stretches into the next century. He is an internationally respected luthier and quoting the Daily Mail, ‘the Stradivari of the Guitar’.
He wrote numerous books about the Spanish guitar and the man who defined the classical guitar as we know it today, Antonio de Torres. We spent a whole week in Següenza, Spain close to Madrid to document the making of his last guitar. Check for the extensive features about José Romanillos and Antonio de Torres.
This film is part 01 of an old film made by the Bournemouth & Poole College of Art in 1980. The credits go to Director Andrew Jackson and Producer Nick Wright and their exquisite team. Gourmet Guitars restored and digitalized this old 1980 master-piece. It is an extremely rare film-document, well worth to be preserved for future generations.
September 17th, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Hello,
Will this video as well as part 2 be available for purchase?