Ordenanza del Ayuntamiento de México, 26 de octubre de 1585.

Antonio Corona-Alcalde informed in an e-mail [08-01-02] that these Ordenanzas, verbatim reproductions of the Seville and Granada ordenanzas were first promulgated en la Nueva España in 1568

Antonio Corona-Alcalde informed in an e-mail [08-01-02] that these Ordenanzas, verbatim reproductions of the Seville and Granada ordenanzas were first promulgated en la Nueva España in 1568. The following quotes from Guzmán Bravo are from a 1585 copy [printed?]: “…hasta tanto no sea examinado y siendo hábil y suficiente para poner la dicha tienda… otrosi mandamos que el oficial violero para saber bien su oficio, y ser singular de el ha de saber hacer instrumentos de muchas artes, que sepa hacer un clavicordio y un clavicímbano y un monacordio, y un laúd, y una vihuela de arco, y una vihuela grande de piezas con sus ataraceas, y otras vihuelas…” [guzman1978, 355, note 8, quoting from saldivarHMM]. This document is word for word copied from the 1502 promulgation of the Reyes Católicos, printed in Seville in 1527. See Seville, Ordenanzas. • p 351: “Demand for musical instruments was also increasing; some regions were almost entirely devoted to instrument making, as, for example, Pátzcuaro, Michoacían, where the manufacture of bells trumpets, sackbuts, vihuelas, harps and organs was of a very high standard.”

cited in guzman1978 from saldivarHMM.