Steve Wyrick wrote:
>
> Well actually Fender did make an "Yngwie Malmsteen" custom model
> Stratocaster with a scalloped fretboard for a number of years but as you
> say, this never really caught on amongst guitarists. I suspect one reason
> is that an electric guitarist can get many of the same
There is a carving in Melrose Abbey of someone playing a small three-
course lute. This (if the carving is anywhere near as old as the
abbey itself) is by far the oldest documentation of any stringed
instrument in Scotland.
The type of lute was one I couldn't think of another parallel for,
thoug
> I wonder why this design hasn't ever caught on in the West? You'd
> think that rock and jazz musicians would like it. Maybe it'll be the
> "new" style guitar a few years from now.
Where have you been, man? ;-) John McLaughlin and Ingwe Malmsteen (sp?) have
been using guitars set up like th
eresting to see what could be done with this on an acoustic guitar,
though. -Steve
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From: John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: February 28, 2001 4:23:41 PM GMT
Subject: Re: [scots-l] another place for Rob (or maybe Nigel) to visit
I w
Susan Tichy writes:
| Rob MacKillop wrote:
| > The lute
| > seems to have been born in Persia 2 to 3 thousand years ago and was known as
| > the barbat. It spread all over Africa, out to China and Japan and to Europe
|
| In Vietnam I saw lutes in museums with frets about three inches high, and lu
Susan Tichy wrote:
> In Vietnam I saw lutes in museums with frets about three inches high, and
lutes
> being played were quite similar. Also a three-stringed instrument they
called
> a guitar, though I never saw one of those played. In the Hanoi old
quarter, where
> each street specializes in one
Rob MacKillop wrote:
> The lute
> seems to have been born in Persia 2 to 3 thousand years ago and was known as
> the barbat. It spread all over Africa, out to China and Japan and to Europe
In Vietnam I saw lutes in museums with frets about three inches high, and lutes
being played were quite sim
David wrote:
| John Chambers wrote:
| > Jack Campin writes:
| > | Maybe the Kirghiz got it from Persia, but I can't see how any chain
| > | of influence could have transmitted an instrument design from Persia
| > | to Scotland in the Middle Ages either.
| >
| > Not much mystery there, actually. T
John Chambers wrote:
>
> Jack Campin writes:
> | Maybe the Kirghiz got it from Persia, but I can't see how any chain
> | of influence could have transmitted an instrument design from Persia
> | to Scotland in the Middle Ages either.
>
> Not much mystery there, actually. The Norse were tradin
Jack Campin wrote:
>
> There is a carving in Melrose Abbey of someone playing a small three-
> course lute. This (if the carving is anywhere near as old as the
> abbey itself) is by far the oldest documentation of any stringed
> instrument in Scotland.
>
> The type of lute was one I couldn't th
The kobza is fairly weel-kent tae ethnomusicologists and organologists. It
is sill used in parts of Hungary as well, and is regarded as a folk
instrument. It certainly does look similar to the Melrose lute. The lute
seems to have been born in Persia 2 to 3 thousand years ago and was known as
the b
Jack Campin writes:
| Maybe the Kirghiz got it from Persia, but I can't see how any chain
| of influence could have transmitted an instrument design from Persia
| to Scotland in the Middle Ages either.
Not much mystery there, actually. The Norse were trading through
Russia down to the Black
There is a carving in Melrose Abbey of someone playing a small three-
course lute. This (if the carving is anywhere near as old as the
abbey itself) is by far the oldest documentation of any stringed
instrument in Scotland.
The type of lute was one I couldn't think of another parallel for,
thoug
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