Letter: Clarification of DVD review in AL#97

by Ronald Louis Fernández

Originally published in American Lutherie #99, 2009



Greetings,

I thank Tom Harper for his review of my DVD, French Polishing for Guitarmakers 2.0 in AL#97. I wish to make a few clarifications.

My family’s Spanish guitar business in the 1960s never involved Manuel Rodríguez. Rather, we had dealings with Miguel Rodríguez of Cordoba as well as Manuel de la Chica (Granada), Arcángel Fernández, Marcelino Barbero, Felix Manzanero, Hernández y Aguado, Juan Alvarez, and José Ramírez III. My article “Miguel Rodríguez: Some Notes on his Family Tree and Correcting the Historical Record” in AL#68 (Winter 2001) tells about the Miguel Rodríguez family and mentions my dealing with them. In a footnote of that article, I specifically mention the difference between Miguel Rodríguez of Cordoba and Manuel Rodríguez of Madrid.