[VIHUELA] Re: Re-entrant tuning

[Stuart Walsh]

Monica Hall wrote:
   There is a very amusing cartoon about the re-entrant tuning in the
   latest issue of Early Music Review.   I hope I am not infringing their
   copyright!  But I have put it on my [1]www.earlyguitar.ning.com page
   for the benefit of people who don't see this particular journal.



   Monica

   --
  

Nice joke. I'm still worrying about it! Actually, maybe,  it's not 
re-entrant tuning per se that is the problem. In a way, fully re-entrant 
tuning is no problem. In fully re-entrant tuning, with both fifth and 
fourth up an octave, you just play and do the best you can.

The real anxiety (but, as you have often said, not for you, Monica) is 
having an octave and a bourdon on the fourth, or on the fourth and the 
fifth AND, as most people do, having the higher string in the position 
where the thumb naturally strikes it before the lower. Now there are 
possibilities - but not documented possibilities - possibilities to 
emphasise  either the octave or the bourdon in different situations.

I was playing my guitar again today, with a bourdon on the fourth (a 
very corny, half-baked concept):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTAOV49TSKM

and I feel I just have to - in this music - really, really try to make 
the fourth mainly a bass course.

Stuart



References

   1. http://www.earlyguitar.ning.com/


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