Against the Grain

List of Figures; Foreword by John Mills; Acknowledgements; Introduction by Therese Wassily Saba; Growing Up and All That Jazz!; An Introduction to Early Music: Harpsichord Apprenticeship at Goble's; Paul Joins the Army: 11th Hussars (Prince Albert's Own); Paul's Surprise Return to Instrument Making: David Rubio at Duns Tew; Harpsichords at Duns Tew; Independence at The Ridge House; Chipping Norton: Paul Establishes His Own Workshop; Brazil 1983: The Winston Churchill Fellowship; New Classical Guitar Developments: The Taut Bracing System The 1990s; Lecturing and Masterclasses in the UK and Abroad; A New Millennium: Fresh Fields; Fifty Years an Instrument Maker and Beyond; A Visit to the Antarctic; The Dawn of Another Decade: 2010s; Stroke and Recovery: 'I May Be Some Time.'; Not Quite the End: Meeting the Queen; Afterword by Therese Wassily Saba; Appendix I Sergio Abreu; Badi Assad; Sergio Assad; Christopher Dean; Siegfried Hogenmuller Paul Fischer: A Man and His Guitars; Thomas Liauw For My Friend and Buddy for Many Years: Luthier Paul Fischer; Juan Martin My Paul Fischer 1972 Flamenca Nigra; Julian Roach The Making of the Shelley Guitar; Julian Roach The Shelley Guitar: Concert Programme; Jasper Sender; Xuefei Yang Aubade; Appendix II - Articles Bernard Richardson 'Guitar Acoustics at Cardiff '; PhD Theses from Cardiff University; Suggested Publications by Bernard E. Richardson of Interest to Guitar Players and Makers; Dr Bernard Richardson, School of Physics and Astronomy, Cardiff University; Appendix III - Articles by Paul Fischer 'Report to the Churchill Trust Fellowship'; 'Temperature, Humidity and the Guitar'; Journal Articles by and about Paul Fischer; Gallery of Instruments by Paul Fischer; Bibliography; Index;