Very good idea and enjoyable performances! Thanks Stuart! The sound of your mandora/gallichon is most interesting and convincing. And to see also the player pleases me much in the Gervaise... ;-)
Arto On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 21:13:09 +0000, Stuart Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > I know it's not everyone's cup of tea but I've been really intrigued by > trying to play some not-too-difficult, modernish guitar music on a > mandora/gallichon. The modern classical guitar: high > tension/nails/avoiding first position etc etc etc. The Baroque mandora: > light, low tension, double courses, octaves on fifth and sixth etc etc. > > The first and last of Michael Stimpson's 'Five Miniatures'. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snkbGSaFLkY > > And I came across a little video I uploaded and removed a long time ago. > It's a very pretty arrangement of a Pavane by Gervaise for four-course > guitar by Pascal Boquet and I'm playing it on a very small, cheap, > modern guitar (perhaps intended for a child) which I got in an auction > for about £5. > > I added some reverb. But I'm playing in a very small loft space with no > decent acoustic qualities at all. A very good player on a very good > instrument in a big room might not need a bit of lift from reverb - but > I think I do. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lI_NhZnoOJ4 > > > Stuart > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
