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Letter to the editor by Michael Darnton
Darnton adds information to Olsen's article about Stradivari in American Lutherie #17.
The Mandolin Orchestra in America, Part Two by Joseph R. Johnson
Johnson examines the mandolin orchestra at the turn of the century when an aggressive ad campaign by Gibson changed the look and sound of the American mandolin forever. Part One is in American Lutherie #19, Part Three is in American Lutherie #21.
Retouching Violin Varnish by Michael Darnton
Darnton offers some in-depth advice to help you make your violin repairs invisible.
An Interview with Stewart Pollens by Cyndy Burton
Pollens is Associate Conservator of the Department of Musical Instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. How does a major museum maintain its instruments? How do they view their responsibilities to their collections? How does one train to do the work? Here it is.
Maximum Mirrors by Dale Randall
Randall lines the entire guitar back with plexiglas mirrors while working inside the body. Looks like a fine idea.
Meet Bill McCaw by Jonathon Peterson
McCaw is a builder in pursuit of the $1000, high quality classical guitar.
String Making: Old and New by James Rickard
Life inside the D'Addario company.
Six Lutherie Tools; Jeffrey Elliott interviewed by Jonathon Peterson
The six tools are: a guitar cradle, a grimel (hand purfling cutter), a hand circle cutter, a shooting board, a circle cutting jig for the Dremel tool, and water stones for tool sharpening.
Meet Patrick Marshall by Jonathon Peterson
Marshall is a builder of bass fiddles.
Historical Lute Construction: Practicum Part Two by Robert Lundberg
Lundberg makes a complete lute top. This series is comprised of 19 episodes.
Heelblock Hank: His Story, Part Two by Louis "Buddy" Hale and Michael H. Price
The informational comic strip continues. Part One was in American Lutherie #19. The final part follows in American Lutherie #21.
Review: Make and Play a Lute by Ronald Zachary Taylor. Reviewed by Jim Flynn.
The reviewer bubbles with enthusiasm for this book.
Review: L'ELAN. Reviewed by Francis Kosheleff.
The reviewer finds this little Canadian lutherie magazine to be "interesting but not too deep".
Questions edited by Cyndy Burton
Answers to questions about guitars by Cantos and Galiano; learning lutherie at Red Wing Technical School; buying Portuguese stringed instruments; synthetic fretboards; and spelling "lutherie".
The Big One of '89 by Francis Kosheleff
An earthquake shakes down a luthier's life, and he lives to offer a striking description of the event.
This issue is no longer available individually. Its contents are
included in The Big Red Book of American Lutherie, Vol. 2.
(excluding any of the Historical Lute Construction articles by
Robert Lundberg which are available in a book by the same name)
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