[VIHUELA] Re: Chord I

[Eugene C. Braig IV]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
> Behalf Of Monica Hall
> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 5:22 PM
> To: Stewart McCoy
> Cc: Vihuelalist
> Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Chord I
> 
> > There are many ways of fingering that A major chord. The commonest seen
> > in modern guitar tutors is
> >
> > ____a___
> > _3__c___
> > _2__c___
> > _1__c___
> > ____a___
> > ________
> >
> > That's OK if you have thin fingers, but there is always the danger that
> > the 1st finger won't get close enough to the 2nd fret, and you'll get a
> > buzz.
> 
> Yes - that's the fingering I use - and I guess I have much thinner
> fingures
> than all you gentleman - so thin in fact that I don't find stopping double
> courses easy.   I keep thinking maybe I should get the spacing reduced
> between the strings of each course.
> 

[Eugene C. Braig IV] I think the risk of buzzing is mitigated a bit on many
5-course guitars.  Much fret gut is much thinner than much modern fret wire.
Also, the scale length of 5-course guitars tends to be a bit longer than
modern guitars, giving a little more room to pack those 2nd and 3rd fingers
a little tighter getting the first close enough to the fret to avoid
trouble.

Eugene



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