Eugene C. Braig IV wrote:

> However, I have always
> wondered why modern guitarists shun baroque guitar music in favor of
> transcription from music for wholly dissimilar instruments like cello 
> or
> violin.

Because the violin and cello are, in their way, less dissimilar.  If 
you play them straight off the page on a modern guitar, Bach's violin 
partitas and sonatas will make sense, more or less.  Corbetta will not.

HP



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