Resources
...for players, makers and lovers of the cuatro
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A new and very modern
resource for cuatro players-- Online Cuatro music lessons We have become aware of, and recently purchased, the first lesson in the series of computer lesson of musical pieces for the cuatro, inaugurated at Puerto Rican Music Online by the brilliant young cuatro star Maribel Delgado. Each lesson costs $15 and consists of a small reader which you installed in your operating system that allows you a open individual lessons that you can buy. Each lesson appears as a booklet consisting of sequential pages that contain text, images and a video window. A link also places partiture and tablature of each phrase on your desktop. In the video window, Maribel demonstrates clearly and repeatedly the execution of each phrase at progressively slower speed. At the end all the phrases add up to the total piece. ALTHOUGH THE LESSONS ARE IN SPANISH, non-Spanish speaker can profit from the visuals offered. We have to point out that this first offering of Maribel's is NOT an introductory course to the Cuatro: On the contrary, this first offering is teaches a rather challenging and complex piece, and assumes that the student already has basic fingering and plucking skills. Although our copy had some minor technical problem, we are extremely enthused at the prospects of this new teaching medium which the pioneering Maribel Delgado has created for us. |
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The Puerto Rican Cuatro now lives in Norway, where it is called "cuatron
tarina." The master artisan Jukka Hyninen has dedicated himself to the making of our national instrument in his distant northern country. After having recieved the Cuatro Project's cuatro construction plan drawing, the Norwegian artisan Jukka Hyninen has documented the process of making our national instrument and has sent us a full-color published article in a Norwegian magazine that describes his effort in bringing the instrument to Norway.
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Announcing a towering event in the preservation of traditional Puerto Rican
music:
The restoration of the 1929-32 recordings made by the great cuatrista Heriberto Torres and his group, "Los Jardineros"
We would like all the
readers, friends and followers of the Puerto Rican Cuatro Project to be
aware of the recent and marvelous restoration by the
Yazoo label (of
Shanachie Records) of the early and seminal
recordings of the "Wizard of the Cuatro" Heriberto Torres
in their recent and important compact disc recording, "THE BEST OF LOS
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 Our California friends have created a great new Cuatro Festival, the first in California. To learn more and to keep updated visit their new site clicking on the logo immediately above.
Master and apprentice: Roberto Rivera (right) recently completed his apprenticeship to cuatromaking master Diómedes Matos of Newark NJ (left), a relationship facilitated by the New Jersey Council of the Arts and the Puerto Rican Cuatro Project. Roberto is a full-fledged maker now. View Roberto's webpage by clicking here. See how Roberto creates wonderful floral fingerboard inlays on his (and on his teacher's) cuatros by clicking here.
Our esteemed young friend Henry Pagán does beautiful airbrush art on cuatros in Florida. His website (in Spanish) can be found here. See some of his work below:
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 Visit our coordinator and webmaster William Cumpiano's guitar- and cuatro-making website The cuatro now belongs to the world! North American Stewart Rice, captivated by the cuatro and by Rock, sends us photos of his latest project: a rock cuatro...
A little bit of everything for Ricans and Rico-philes...
A Puerto Rican photo archive.
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