"the star spangled banner," for example, played on a ukulele (g-c-e-a) - starting with "g" (2nd string, 3rd fret) leaves you with the option of climbing up the neck to "e" (1st string, 7th fret) to reach "... by the dawn's early light" or switching to the 4th string, 4th fret for the same. my point was that the former - imho - leaves you up there with the "tinky-tinks" while the latter has more vibrating length and a fuller sound.
re-entrant tuning with bourdon is something of a plus and the charango's 5th course is just icing on the cake. - bill --- David Rastall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Oct 13, 2006, at 10:00 AM, bill kilpatrick wrote: > > > ...my own take on re-entrant tuning is: > > ...you can pursue the high reaches of > > the melody without climbing up the neck > > I don't follow you. Doesn't it work the other way? > The highest > pitched string in re-entrant tuning would be either > the second or the > third string. If you wanted to get above that > pitch, into the higher > reaches, you would have to move up the neck to do > so. > > David R > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > www.rastallmusic.com > > > > Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
