I'm confusedis this instrument the one which disintegrated and was
rebuilt after it arrived back at pamela's?
I'm considering it, but if it's likely to be awful, why bother thanks
christopher davies, portland
No, this is not the instrument that arrived in pieces - this is another
one,
Howdy Folks,
I'm on the road at the moment and don't have regular access to the internet
so I haven't been able to keep up with the
recent threads - I haven't even been able to read everything yet!
Two things I wanted to say:
RE Ron's (beautiful) cittern: Has anyone mentioned fake labels? A
Actually, there is one more thing about that anglo-centric view I
mentioned and that is the name English guitar, which I find rather
inappropriate, and which forces us to use other adjectives like Scottish or
Polish, etc. I can see that this type of classification might be useful in
a certain way,
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From: Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2006 23:00:37 +0200
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], cittern@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [CITTERN] Re: An eighteenth century cittern in Prague
(Polishguitars?)
It looks like an eighteenth century
Don't tell me you've started writing for citten!
These really are testing times, and I'm thinking of flying to the US soon...
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From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:27:07 -0400
To: cittern@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [CITTERN] Re
site.
Doc
Original Message:
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From: Brad McEwen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:56:26 -0700 (PDT)
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], cittern@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [CITTERN] Re: Diatonic Cittern Music
Rob:
Ah, ok, then.
Brad
Rob MacKillop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
Thanks, Peter.
I've got Winternitz. Why sorry? I know I'm not introducing anything new.
Doc
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This past weekend I spent half a day with Carlo Cecchoni - he made some
adjustments to the
cittern he made for me - and we talked quite a bit about picks. Carlo
plays baroque mandolin
(Roman version) and has been experimenting with various materials. He's
made some nice picks
from bark that
The mandolin might be an even better example than the guitar. The
instrument Bill Monroe plays is about as different from the one Vivaldi
wrote his mandolin concerto for as two fretted instruments can be.
Different tuning, different playing technique, hardly any similarities
in construction
