Recent website additions
11-03-14
- Added a never-before-published photograph of Jack Delano on the Artisanry page,
showing a country craftsman making a cuatro.
12-7-2013
- Added a beautiful old photo of Maso Rivera and his group to Maso Rivera's page
- Added a photo of Puerto Rico's great cuatro builder Eugenio Mendez--and a
remembrance of his passing 10 years ago—to our opening page.
6-9-2013
- We've added the cuatro sonero to the list of interesting cuatro variants at the bottom of our cuatro page.
5-22-13
- We've dedicated a new page to the great cuatrista from Morovis, Juan Peña
1-13-13
- We added a reprint of a 1904 article in the New York Times about Puerto Rican music,
"Native Porto Ricans are Born Music Lovers"
12-20-12
- We added a page surveying the surge of interest in Puerto Rico and U.S. in community
tiple-making workshops
7-29-12
- We added a page dedicated to the great composer/cuatro player Pepe Rodriguez
5-19-12
- We added a page dedicated to the great troubadour Toñín Romero
4-16-12
- We added a report on our January 2012 vihuela conference in Ponce
4-15-12
- We began a new page dedicated to the vihuela-bordonúa
4-12-12
- We re-wrote the existing page on the Bordonúa to reflect recent research findings.
12/3/11
- We added more song recordings to the entry for troubadour Miguel Angel Figueroa in the Troubadours of the Fifties page.
12/1/11
- We added a page dedicated to the great cuatrista Francisco Ortiz Piñeiro
11/20/11
- We added a page of seis and aguinaldo samples performed by Prodigio Claudio
9/4/11
- We created a page dedicated to the renown cuatro maker Miguel Méndez
9/3/11
- We translated the Old Wax page on early Puerto Rican traditional music recordings
8/29/11
- We added David Morales' comprehensive artistic biography of the great troubadour, Chuíto el de Cayey
4/16/11
- We added a page dedicated to the cuatro maker Manuel Henríquez Zapata
2/8/12
- We added a Yomo Toro page
- We added a page featuring Arturito Aviles playing seises and aguinaldos
1/15/11
- Added the exciting young cuatrista Gabriel Muñoz to our Young Lions page
- Added cuatristas Gabriel Muñoz and Daniel Class to our teaching resources page
12/30/10
- We added two new CD recordings to our Cuatro Project Recommends page
12/15/10
- We established a new search page for our site
12/5/10
- We added a new page featuring the Decimilla and the Aguinaldo
12/4/2010
- We added an entry describing a Finnish instrument maker bringing the cuatro to Finland
4/13/10
- We added a translation of the existing article on bordonúa tunings and stringings
4/10/10
- We created a page featuring seis samples by the late, great cuatrista Efraín Vidal.
3/7/10
- We added a page on don Marcelino Quiñones' remarkable Southern cuatro here.
2/15/10
- We noted in our Cuatro Project Accomplishments page, the production of our CD recording of the decimillas of Pichilo Nieves
2/8/10
- We added a page dedicated to the great cuatrista Maso Rivera
1/8/10
- We inserted a more complete biography of our Media Director Wilfredo Echevarría in our Personnel Page
1/5/10
- We created a short video preview of our feature-length DVD documentary, Nuestro Cuatro, Vol. 2 and added it to it's feature page
- We translated the page of the Cuatro Project's new CD recording, La Décima de Espinel into English
1/4/10
- We corrected errors and added new findings on the life of Joaquín Rivera, Lefty from Isabela
1/1/10
- Added Juan Sotomayor's bordonúa solo music to the Bordonúa page
- We created a series of short video previews of our feature-length DVD documentary, Nuestro Cuatro, Vol. 1 and added it to it's feature page
12/31/09
- We created a web page dedicated to the great cuatro maker and folk artisan Carmelo Martel
12/27/09
- We completed the Ladislao Martínez, "Maestro Ladi" webpage
12/24/09
- Creation of the Recent Website Additions page
- Cuatro Project Accomplishments page translated to English
- News of the Cuatro Project page inaugurated with news of cuatro relic acquisition
- Goals of the Cuatro Project page created
- Added curious cuatro-guitar photo to Contact Us page