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Mike Gregory Banjo Maker
Apr-12-2006, 1:55pm
I have a second or third-hand mandolin, made in Phoenix in 1974, signed by Juan Roberto.
Anybody know anything more about him and/or his work?
sunburst
Apr-12-2006, 2:07pm
If it's the same guy who co-founded the Roberto Venn school of lutherie in Phoenix, his given name was John Roberts, or Robert, and he changed it to Juan Roberto when he decided to be a luthier, because he thought the Spanish name gave more credibility to a guitar maker.
I don't really know anything about his work.
glauber
Apr-12-2006, 2:57pm
Should be Don Juan Roberto, no? http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Mike Gregory Banjo Maker
Apr-12-2006, 5:36pm
Thank you, Gentlemen.
This particular instrument has a flat top and sides, but some sort of curved INTERIOR panel which slopes from the neck end to the tailpiece end. I've never heard anything quite like it, and can only imagine how much nicer it might have sounded, before the top began to cave in.