{"id":766,"date":"2015-12-21T16:17:25","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T20:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/?p=766"},"modified":"2015-12-21T16:18:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T20:18:58","slug":"guitar-tasting-w-franco-marino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/guitar-tasting-w-franco-marino\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Tasting with Franco Marino of Sicily"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Dec. 20th we were very pleased to host\u00a0Sicilian\u00a0luthier (guitar builder) Franco Marino and his wife Carmen for our first Guitar Tasting!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_769\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-769\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-769\" src=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN6652-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Franco Marino of Messina, Sicily\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN6652-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN6652-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-769\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Franco Marino of Messina, Sicily<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In attendance:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Adam Levin<\/li>\n<li>Devin Ulibarri<\/li>\n<li>Apostolos Paraskevas<\/li>\n<li>Steve Rapson<\/li>\n<li>Peter Janson<\/li>\n<li>Kevin Collins<\/li>\n<li>Lin and Anni Hymel<\/li>\n<li>Aaron &amp; Catherine Larget-Caplan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/media\/set\/?set=a.10156306359285137.1073741853.239218630136&amp;type=1&amp;l=03f107ad3d\" target=\"_blank\">Franco Marino Guitar Tasting Photos<\/a>\u00a0\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/LiuteriaFrancoMarino\/?fref=ts\" target=\"_blank\">Like Franco on FB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Special thanks to Catherine and Caroline Larget for\u00a0creating a wonderful atmosphere and to all who brought nibbles and their musical gifts to our home.<\/p>\n<p>Read an interview for the Boston Classical Guitar Society with Franco in 2010:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/interview-franco-marino\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-768\" src=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1060043_764538540318722_733504054_n-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"1060043_764538540318722_733504054_n\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1060043_764538540318722_733504054_n-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1060043_764538540318722_733504054_n-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/1060043_764538540318722_733504054_n.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-770 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN6653-300x227.jpg\" alt=\"DSCN6653\" width=\"300\" height=\"227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN6653-300x227.jpg 300w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN6653-768x580.jpg 768w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/DSCN6653-1024x774.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Sunday Dec. 20th we were very pleased to host\u00a0Sicilian\u00a0luthier (guitar builder) Franco Marino and his wife Carmen for our first Guitar Tasting! In attendance: Adam Levin Devin Ulibarri Apostolos Paraskevas Steve Rapson Peter Janson Kevin Collins Lin and Anni Hymel Aaron &amp; Catherine Larget-Caplan Franco Marino Guitar Tasting Photos\u00a0\u2022 Like Franco on FB Special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,93,14],"tags":[176,179,126,16,178,15,175,135,177,180,17],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-interviews","category-meet-the-luthier","tag-adam-levin","tag-apostolos-paraskevas","tag-boston","tag-classical-guitar","tag-devin-ullibari","tag-franco-marino","tag-guitars","tag-italy","tag-peter-janson","tag-sicilia","tag-sicily"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":776,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}