Aldaz, Juan de

• 1585 - 21 February. In 1585 Juan de Aldaz, vihuelero, and Gómez Mexia, musician, made a contract in Madrid to buy thirty-four and a half bundles of vihuela strings with the trade name la aguela [sic] at fifteen reales a bundle. 517.5 reales (17.595 mrs) para 34 y medio mazos de cuerdas. [mazo = 100 cuerdas?]

• 1607 - 3 July. Violeros Diego Fernández and Cristóbal Bejerano swear on oath that Juan de Aldaz had been examined for a plain vihuela (una biguela llana) by Antonio Duarte and Juan de Carrión in 1586 and Juan de Aldaz was given a licence to have a shop. [AHPM, 3-07-1607, Prot: 24848, fol. 595]

• Juan de Aldaz was present at the meeting in 1607 that the violeros held at Alonso González’s house in calle Toledo (el oficio y arte de hacer biguelas y guitarras y otros instrumentos) to elect examiners and an overseer for the year 1608. [AHPM, Junta de Violeros, 27-12-1607, Prot: 1782, fols 65-66]

• The biolero Juan de Aldaz was in Portal del Mercado y La Hacería de los Libreros in Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, in 1619. AMAH, Padrón vecinal, 13-04-1619, section 2.6, file 274, nf.]

Juan de Carrión	was his	colleague
Antonio Duarte	was his	colleague
Cristóbal Bejerano	was his	colleague
Diego Fernández	was his	colleague
Gómez Mejía	was his	colleague
Alonso González	was his	colleague