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

[bill kilpatrick]

    it's been well over 24 hours now and no has said "it's not a=
   vihuela!"  hip-HIP-hooray!
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     From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g= t;
     Subject: [VIHUELA] Building my second instrument - my first
     vihuelaTo: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
     Date: Wednesday, 2 April, 2008, 3:21 PM
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 year=
s ago by performances of peruvian/bolivian baroque music (bij
the ensqmb=
le
 Musica Temprana www.musicatemprana.com) and others I got the
urge to ge=
t engaged in plucked stringed instruments.
After some time I decided to =
build my first instrument: a 4 course guitar
from a design of Sebasti=E1=
n N=FA=F1ez (after Morlaye).
The 4 course guitar proved to be a good cho=
ice. Its construction (in my
case carved from solid maple) is not to cha=
llenging and the resulting
instrument is not to hard to put to use.
A=
fter the small guitar I recently finished a larger sister: a vihuela.
Li=
ke the guitar it is carved from the same maple. (sting length 59 cm.
G-t=
uning)
For those who are interested some pictures of the instrument and =
the
buildingprocess are available on my weblog
http://guitarra-renace=
ntista.blogspot.com/
It's in dutch. You can trie an atomated transla=
tion to (a somewhat
peculiar form of)
 english:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fguitarr=
a-renacentista.blogspot.com%2F&langpair=3Dnl%7Cen&hl=3Dnl&ie=3D=
UTF-8
Waling
P.S. I Liked the youtube fragments about the jar=
ana. I'ts like seeing my
guitar beeing put to use in Contemporary Mexico=