Cuatros in various stages of production at the webmaster William Cumpiano's shop. (Videocapture by Eddie Gonzalez)
 

Listen to a seis con décima dedicated to cuatro makers.


Photo and music captured from a film produced during the late fifties by the old Division of Comunity Education of the gobernment of Puerto Rico.

A Gift from the Cuatro Project:

A large, 11 x 17 poster illustrating the sequence for making a modern cuatro, in high-resolution Adobe Acrobat format. You can simply open it and view it, or burn the file onto a CD and take it to a copy house, where they can make you a full size copy for a fee. (7.5 Meg)

Roberto Rivera
A gallery of Roberto Rivera's fine cuatro inlay work

William Cumpiano
...has been building string instruments for almost thirty years. Here's a photo journal of how he makes his unique "thinline" cuatros.

Making a Bordonúa Enteriza
Another photo journal from the instrument shop of William Cumpiano.

Manuel Morgado
a noted Puerto Rican craftsman living in Florida is featured in the St. Petersburg Times