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[VIHUELA] Re: chitarra da gamba

Eugene C. Braig IV
Fri, 22 Feb 2008 10:18:29 -0800

At 01:00 PM 2/22/2008, bill kilpatrick wrote:
>interesting curio:
>
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dvnteWmVLo&watch_response


Looks like a weird amateur effort to re-concoct the arepggione of the early 
1800s from something that was built with the intent to be something 
else.  My sense of aesthetics favors the earlier arpeggione.  Chop-shop 
reworkings of instruments built for other uses rarely appeal to me and, as 
far as I'm concerned, are rarely as successful as things finding uses at 
least a little closer to a builder's original intent.

Eugene 



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