Hotlink: Douglass Scott Rosette Tribute to Manuel Velazquez

ByBradford Werner
2014

Fellow Vancouver Islander and luthier Douglass Scott has a nice little article about making some rosettes in tribute of Manuel Velazquez who passed away in April. Via his blog. I love his updates, he always includes some personal reflections and a few pictures. Plus his guitars are fantastic with high quality workmanship.

I wanted to do something small in homage of his contribution to the history of the classical guitar. I decided to make a series of rosettes based on a central zig-zag pattern that I’ve seen on a handful of Velazquez’s guitars dating from the early 1950s.
READ THE FULL ARTICLE:
scottclassicalguitars.blogspot.ca/2014/07/new-rosette-small-tribute

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.