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estebanana -> RE: Inspired by Arias rosettes (Aug. 15 2023 14:05:04)
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ORIGINAL: orsonw
Look forward to seeing them. It reminded me of this excellent rosette of yours:
Thank you Orson. That particular rosette was seen by a guy in Italy who contacted me and sent a photo of the first guitar rosette he made for his first guitar. It was a copy, more or less of this rosette. I was quite surprised, and it so happens, the synchronicity of it all, that a new girl came to the Jr. high I teach at part time, she was Italian and Japanese. She was visiting for a couple months and her parents dropped her into school so she could see what Japanese school was like. Her mother is Japanese and her dad is Italian. She didn’t speak English or very much Japanese, just Italian. The head of the school district called me and said I was to be her cultural liaison as I know a little about Europe and Japan.
So the guy who made a copy of my rosette is as it happens a translator who works for an Italian company, his name is Riccardo. I told Riccardo I will be helping a new student from Italy to get acclimated to school life in Japan and we video conferenced crash Italian lessons for me to be able to say a few words. He actually taught me quite well how to pronounce the Italian I could read, and with google translate on my phone the the student and I managed to communicate.
All because he picked this rosette to copy out of hundreds he found videos and photos of.
Around 2003 or so I bought a book about the oud, and in it there were photos of the decorations on the top. The green and black check motif was on a fine Nahat oud around the sound hole and I straight copied it. So that motif comes from an oud by a Nahat family maker who worked at the exact same time Vicente Arias was making this rosette I posted a photo of with the green yellow red motif.
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