Hi all On Friday 02 January 2004 01:50, Bill Sterling wrote: > ????? > > http://www.crane.gr.jp/HyperUkuleleSchool/hyper-U/Weiss/Passagaille_1.gif
I made a few ukulele searchs by Google, and to my astonishment the little guitar is often tuned in g c e a in re-entrant way (so the "low" 4th string is a fifth higher than the 3rd string. This tuning is like the renaissance guitar (chitarrino) tuning. (Well, the chitarrino has both the high and low g in the 4th course.) Anyhow, some of the google found pages could tell that one Portuguese instrument was taken to Ocean islands in 19th celtury, and that instrument gave the idea for ukulele. Does the collective List Wisdom happen to know, if it really is so that the ukulele is a direct(?) descendant of renaissance guitar? And is there anything in common in the playing technique? Arto
