Page 6 - Meet the Maker: Federico Sheppard by Roger Alan Skipper
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Gerry Reyes receiving his “Angel” guitar, Brownsville Texas, 2009. When the prospective owner of this $8,000 Sheppard guitar passed away on the very day he was to take delivery, Sheppard searched for a deserving student, and donated the guitar to Reyes. |
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John Fahey, one of Sheppard’s guitar idols, with an early Sheppard Hawaiian guitar (on left). |
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The “Camino” guitar. |
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Bicycling in Northern France. That’s cider, not champagne, not that it would have mattered. |
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Rising to the occasion when a bridge washed out in South Africa, March 2000. |
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The good ship Duyfken, on which Sheppard signed on as a navigator after his
around-the-world bicycle adventure was ended by a drunken driver. |
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Examining Barrios’ guitar at the Cabildo Museum. |
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The locals welcome Sheppard and the Cabildo Museum staff to the birthplace of Barrios, San Juan Baptista, Missiones, Paraguay May, 2005. |
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A Sheppard guitar at the Barrios tribute in 2005. “When the sound system went down, and the guitar still could be heard over the grand piano, I knew I was on to something.” |
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What it’s really like in the workshop of Federico Sheppard. (Cartoon by Guillaume Teel of France) |
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The entrance to Santos Hernandez’ shop in Madrid, Spain, now in disrepair. |
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Pepe Romero at the entryway to Sheppard’s garden, 2006.
“Down the staircase to that shop, I have a collection of dead guitars turned into bird houses. I am always accepting more of them, and it is a great way to check the durability of finishes. Just leave the guitar outside through a dozen Wisconsin winters.” |
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Page 26 - Meet the Maker: Monica Esparza by Kathy Wingert
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Teenaged Monica at the organ. |
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Monica with her brothers Ruben and Javier after her performance in a flamenco choir directed by Charo Monje, wife of Uris Zeltan of Blue Guitar in San Diego. |
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| Process photos of the rosette shown on page 29. |
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Page 31 - Summers in Sigüenza with José by Monica Esparza
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Other views of the vihuela mold. |
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| More photos of the vihuela making class. |
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| In the master’s personal shop in Guijosa, Spain finishing up after the class. |
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| More photos from the guitar making classes. |
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| From left: Marian Harris Winspear, Jose L. Romanillos, Monica Esparza. |
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| Bullfights. |
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