David Rubio, original name David Joseph Spinks (born London, 1934 - died Cambridge on 21 October 2000), was an English maker of musical instruments. London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom. Year 1934 ( MCMXXXIV) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display full 1934 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The city of Cambridge (ˈkeɪmbrɪdʒ is a university town and the administrative centre of the county of Cambridgeshire, England 2000 ( MM) was a Leap year that started on Saturday of the Common Era, in accordance with the Gregorian calendar.
A true Renaissance man in spirit, David Rubio has been a modern-day version of the celebrated makers of lutes in the 16th century: a music-lover with refined taste, a perfect knowledge of the materials and his techniques, and a rare skill in organizing the atelier and its production. The Renaissance (from French Renaissance, meaning "rebirth" Italian: Rinascimento, from re- "again" and nascere Lute can refer generally to any plucked string instrument with a neck (either Fretted or unfretted and a deep round back or more specifically to an instrument from
Giving space to his natural eclecticism he built virtually everything a luthier can build: guitars, lutes, harpsichords, theorbos, vihuelas, citterns, pandoras, and finally also violins, violas and cellos. The guitar is a Musical instrument with ancient roots that is used in a wide variety of musical styles A harpsichord is a Musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. A theorbo (tiorba also tuorbe; tiorba Theorbe is a plucked string instrument Vihuela is a name given to two different Guitar -like String instruments one from 15th and 16th century Spain, usually with 12 paired strings and the The cittern (occasionally spelled " cithern " is a stringed instrument of the Lute / Guitar family dating from the Renaissance. In Greek mythology, Pandora (from Greek:, "giver of all all-endowed" was the first woman The violin is a bowed String instrument with four strings usually tuned in Perfect fifths It is the smallest and highest-pitched member The viola is a bowed String instrument. It is the middle voice of the Violin family, The violoncello (abbreviated to cello, or 'cello, plural cellos or celli —the c is tʃ
Gifted with a clear and inquiring mind, with the help of eminent Cambridge scientists, he investigated many aspects of the technology of instrument-making, such as aspects of classical violin varnish and ground layer, in his attempt to re-create the classical sound and appearance of the celebrated old Cremonese instruments. The University of Cambridge (often Cambridge University) located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the Varnish is a transparent, hard protective finish or film primarily used in Wood finishing but also for other materials Cremonese redirects here For the football team see US Cremonese Cremona is a City in northern Italy, situated
His legacy is now celebrated throughout the world, with a magnificent heritage of over a thousand instruments built in 40 years of tireless activity, and in the workshop experiences shared with a number of young makers always in touch with him through the internet till the day when he died at the age of 65. The Internet is a global system of interconnected Computer networks
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