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David LaPlante
 Post subject: Favorite Rosettes
PostPosted: Sat Mar 15, 2008 8:16 am 
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One of the luthiers whose work I particularly like is the late Manouk Papazian. He was an Armenian born in 1911 and was active as a guitar maker from the middle 50's through the early 80's. He died in 1998.
A precocious talent as a youth, he was designing rugs at age 13.
Take a look at two of his rosettes, This use of the column/arch motif predates that of Jose Romanillos by ten years :
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 Post subject: Re: Favorite Rosettes
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Enlightening, I always thought the column-arch idea was a Romanillos original.
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Alexandru Marian
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I'm crazy about some of Torres'. Check out this copy. Unfortunately i did not note who is the maker.


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Alex, This is my copy of the Torres SE 114 that I did a couple of years ago:
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Alexandru Marian
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a w e s o m e [clap]

more pics of her?

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