Waling . Tiersma
Wed, 02 Apr 2008 06:23:16 -0700
Hi fellow 'vihuelistas', I'm an amateur musician playing tenor and bass-viol (a 'modern' descendant of the vihuela de arco...) with a special liking for spanisch renaissance music. About 2 years ago by performances of peruvian/bolivian baroque music (bij the ensqmble Musica Temprana www.musicatemprana.com) and others I got the urge to get engaged in plucked stringed instruments. After some time I decided to build my first instrument: a 4 course guitar from a design of Sebastián Núñez (after Morlaye). The 4 course guitar proved to be a good choice. Its construction (in my case carved from solid maple) is not to challenging and the resulting instrument is not to hard to put to use. After the small guitar I recently finished a larger sister: a vihuela. Like the guitar it is carved from the same maple. (sting length 59 cm. G-tuning) For those who are interested some pictures of the instrument and the buildingprocess are available on my weblog http://guitarra-renacentista.blogspot.com/ It's in dutch. You can trie an atomated translation to (a somewhat peculiar form of) english: http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fguitarra-renacentista.blogspot.com%2F&langpair=nl%7Cen&hl=nl&ie=UTF-8 Waling P.S. I Liked the youtube fragments about the jarana. I'ts like seeing my guitar beeing put to use in Contemporary Mexico. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html