Early Guitars and Vihuela

A network for historic guitars and vihuelas

The wood of which the Belchior Dias 1581 vihuela is made is now fully identified as African blackwood (grenadilla). For more info and pictures go to:
http://www.vihuelademano.com/vgcrossroads.htm (1st section "Wood").

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Interesting. I'm amazed how similar that piece you have looks like the wood in the Dias instrument. It's kind of un-nerving actually...Are you sure you don't have the sister cut??? ;)

Thank you, Scot. I know, the similarity is truly amazing, bearing in mind that African blackwood is quite variable in colour shades, depending where it grew, soil condition etc. Here is a full-resolution crop of the image in plate1:

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