BTW, I regularly play renaissance guitar music on my baritone uke (which is tuned like the top 4 on a guitar) and it works great.
Of course the uke is a direct descendant of the renaissance guitar... but by way of the modern guitar. That is, after the development of the six string guitar, the Portuguese developed a number of small variants, one of which found it's way to Hawaii where it was duplicated. Arto Wikla wrote: > > 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 > > > -- Rough-edged songs from a dark place in the soul: http://DoctorOakroot.com
