On Feb 11, 2006, at 4:57 PM, gary digman wrote: > Dear list; > > I've been reading through some G. A. Terzi. Either Terzi was > endowed with some incredibly huge hands or he had a very small > lute. How would one go about tackling the following: > > > ____7_____ > ____2_____ > ____5_____ > __________ > __________ > ____3_____
Bb D E D? Pretty jazzy. I'd like to see what comes before and after. Terzi is notorious. I heard that POD came up with a list of 20 impossible chords out of Terzi. As written, I can just barely get my fingers into this position on my A lute, so I deem it impossible for me to play in a musical context. Some players might play the top three courses with the fingers and the 6th with the thumb. Here are the same notes with courses 2 and 3 reversed. A lot more manageable. And if you have a 7th course tuned a tone lower than the 6th, you could play the low note at the 5th fret. ____7_____ ____0_____ ____7_____ __________ __________ ____3_____ > > ____7___ > ____3___ > ____0___ > ________ > ________ > ____7___ At least I can reach this one on my A lute. It might be quite hard to land on depending on what comes before. Again would like to see the context. You could always play it as: ____7___ ________ ____8___ ________ ____9___ ____7___ or put the F down an octave ____7___ ________ ____0___ ____0___ ________ ____7___ I wonder if this was the equivalent of some kind of orchestral reduction, a way to represent all the notes for completeness sake. Do you have this in digital format? cheers, To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
