> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:44:44 EDT > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected] > Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Origin of the Portuguese guitarra > > In einer eMail vom 24.10.2006 14:58:34 Westeurop=E4ische Sommerzeit schreibt > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> Rules are hard to live by ;-) >> > > Roger, > > Rules can make things a lot easier. I want to play music, not make up my own > rules to replace existing ones. > > For the purpose of playing music, I have a large (my wife says, too large) > selection of perfectly regular instruments, all tuned the way the tutors say. > And the fretted ones are each tuned differently. The fifths mandolins, the > fourths/third guitars and ukulele, the open-chord Waldzither, the > open-chord-over-a-fifth banjos. Each tuning facilitates a particular style, > and the beautiful > thing about it is, that I never lose my orientation. The differently-tuned > instruments have a different physical look and feel, so when I grasp the neck > of a > particular instrument, the appropriate fingerings get loaded into my brain > automatically. > And because I tune by the rules, my tunings match the acoustical properties > of the body and the available strings. > > A naive approach, granted - but I get a lot of enjoyment out of it! > > Cheers, > John D. >
It might surprise you, but I have no problems with that! ;-) Roger To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
