THE author wishes to acknowledge the debt of gratitude he owes to Marco Roccia in not only providing, over the many years of their association, all the information contained in this book but in carefully checking all he has written therein. MARCO ROCCIA, maker of the Clifford Essex concert size Spanish guitar which is used as a model in the following pages, is an Englishman born of Italian parents. He started his instrument-making apprenticeship as a boy; first in his father's workshops in Cassino, Italy, and later in Paris. He returned to the land of his birth in 1927, when he joined the Clifford Essex Co. and became one of the craftsmen who produced the many thousands cf guitars (of all kinds) that bear this world-famous name.
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