[VIHUELA] Re: Building my second instrument - my first vihuela

[bill kilpatrick]

    congratulations waling - your vihuela is fabulous!  bea= utifully made
   - must have taken you forever!
   could you please explai= n why you choose a single-piece construction
   instead of assembled and - if = possible - cite historical references
   for this method?
   can't wait fo= r sound samples!
   bravo! - bill
   http://www.youtube.com/profil= e?user=3Dbillkilpatrick
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     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED] .net>
     Subject: [VIHUELA] Building my second instrument - my first vih=
     uela
     To: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
     Date: Wednesday, 2 April, 2008, 3:2= 1 PM
Hi fellow 'vihuelistas',
I'm an amateur musician pl=
aying
 tenor and bass-viol (a 'modern'
descendant
of the vihuela de arco...=
)  with a special liking for spanisch renaissance
music.
About  2 yea=
rs ago by performances of peruvian/bolivian baroque music (bij
the ensqm=
ble 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 Sebasti=
=E1n N=FA=F1ez (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 finish
ed 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 a=
nd 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) e=
nglish:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fguitarra-=
renacentista.blogspot.com%2F&langpair=3Dnl%7Cen&hl=3Dnl&ie=3DUT=
F-8
Waling
P.S. I Liked the youtube fragments about the jaran=
a. I'ts like seeing my
guitar beeing put to use in Contemporary Mexico.<=
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