[VIHUELA] Re: Re-entrant tuning

[Monica Hall]

Oh..................... well you are lucky to have sparrows!   We have blue 
tits, great tits, a robin and amzingly - a grey wagtail which visits my 
neighbours fish pond.   But I haven't seen a sparrow in north London for 
years.

Monica

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From: <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re-entrant tuning



---- Monica Hall <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:

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

Not sure what you are referring to as being a very corny, half-baked
concept!   It is a compromise and in the real world compromises are often
better.

No the half-baked concept was playing a chorale against a video of 
sparrows kicking off!

Stuart

>
> 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.

The Hertzenberg ms. is relatively late and I would think that bourdons on
both the 4th and 5th would be appropriate although some of the 
arrangements
may be earlier - I am not terribly familiar with it.

But the reverse stringing i.e. treble string on the thumb side is very 
well
documented in late 18th century (French) sources - more so than in any 
17th
century ones.

I hesitate to say this but there shouldn't really be a problem making the
bourdons sound clearly if you are playing them with the thumb - and how
else.

I'm glad you liked the cartoon.   I understand that for some reason the
baroque guitar has been mentioned a lot on a lunchtime programme on 
BBC4 -
but I seldom listen to the radio so have missed the details.

Monica
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