Hi Michael,
Sure, it's good to have the original to hand. But if it means keying-in =
a
load of tablature, having an on-line resource can be a big help.
As the years roll by we need something more legible to play from! =
That's my
excuse anyway.
Interesting thread on copyrights at the moment
Hi Ron,
I agree, but having come from a classical guitar background, I always =
had
the feeling that the modern guitar was lacking a musical heritage in =
some
strange sense, not that, this is true really, it defiantly has it's own
lineage, but in my mind, the lute satisfies this void that stretches =
back to
the beginning of western music, in a way the guitar can't.
To actually read music that say, Weiss wrote with his own hand, and
Dowland etc. is a thrill beyond words for me! And gives me a sense of
legitimacy were the guitar as noble as it is, doesn't go back to the =
roots
of music the way the lute does.
This reminds me of a visit to Michael Lorimer in New York a couple =
of
years ago. When I walked in to his living room, He had the entire =
London
and Dresden facsimiles spread out from one end of the room to the other,
and said he was going to transcribe everything Weiss wrote for guitar.
While I think this is great on his part, it, at least to me it showed a
certain uneasiness and desperation some guitarist feel, to legitimize =
the
guitar to the point of being ridicules, and stretching it beyond what =
it's
capable of, and in the long run actually do harm to it.
All I ever played on guitar anyway was Dowland, Bach and Weiss,( =
the easy pieces) and
it's important for me to see the original facsimiles, to make the =
connection
with history.
Michael Thames
Luthier
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
Site design by Natalina Calia-Thames
Michael Thames
Luthier
www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com
Site design by Natalina Calia-Thames
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