Juan Montero Aguilera
Juan Montero Aguilera was born in Cordoba in 1932. Like many guitar makers, Juan Montero Aguilera and his brother Francisco were cabinet makers before taking up guitar construction. In 1960, at his brother's initiative they began building guitars. Juan studied with Manuel Reyes, and for a time built guitars for Manuel Rodriguez. After his brother moved to Barcelona in 1963, Juan seriously devoted himself to the study of construction, and developing his own design. Currently, he is experimenting with the lattice bracing used by Smallman. Since1960, Juan has built more than 850 guitars. In building guitars, he uses, top grade, aged woods, at least 20 years old. Among the professional guitarists and artists who appear in his registry of customers are Juan Serrano who has used his guitars on virtually all his recordings since 1990, Paco de Lucia, Paco Cepero, Eloy de Diego, Manolo Dominguez, Antonio Romero Pantoja, Hermanos Flores, Carlos Pinana de Cartagena, Adolfo Rabanos de Logrono, Alberto Lucena de Cordoba, Paco del Gastor de Moron, and Enrique de Melchor. His guitars not only have the workmanship and beauty one expects in qualify instruments, but the sound to match in richness, depth, and balance.
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