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From: Sal Salvaggio [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, February 28, 2005 8:31 pm
Subject: Re: Modern Notation of Five-Course Lit.
Robert Strizitch (sp) did a book of transcribed
DeVisee back in the 1970's. My recollection- been
about 5 years since I've seen the
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, March 12, 2005 1:29 pm
Subject: Re: Re: campanellas
i've tuned my charango gg-cc-eE-a'a'-d'd' and play it
with a flexible pick made from cow's horn, using two
finger chords for the most part. running the
Greetings Bill,
Unfortunately, no 16th-c. guitars have survived and there are precious few (not
enough to make generalizations of the type) from the 17th c. In any event, I
doubt your friends assertions would really apply. For example, lutes were
similarly lightly built and didn't feature
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, October 22, 2005 6:24 am
Subject: [VIHUELA] rain ...
i realize there's no welcome mat at the door for him
here but - never being one to discredit an idea for
anything other than its merits - the following
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, October 25, 2005 6:33 pm
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: What is the historical vihuela?
wouldn't it stand to reason that those vihuela/guitar
manifestations which are not considered guitars might
therefore be
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sunday, December 18, 2005 3:17 am
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: the smoking ... derringer ... double barrelled
what's interesting about grunfeld's comment on the
figure is the mention of strolling players -
itinerant,
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, March 25, 2006 3:38 am
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Mean tone temperament
sectioned frets are even necessary to get really, wholly and maybe
holy ET because of
the different string material and action. See this here for an
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From: G. Crona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, July 22, 2006 4:44 am
Subject: [VIHUELA] Interesting page
http://www.library.appstate.edu/music/guitar/strummed.html
I just realized this page is hosted by Appalachian State University where Dr.
Doug James heads the
A little peripheral, but this was the case on the early Neapolitan mandolin as
well: e in gut.
Eugene
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From: Monica Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Sunday, October 15, 2006 12:30 pm
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Why re-entrant tuning?
According to Ian Harwood's book on the
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From: Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007 6:29 pm
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: chittarino diuserso (II)
bill kilpatrick wrote:
rummaging around google, i see that the engravings for
the period instruments complied in filippo buonanni's
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Friday, March 23, 2007 7:00 am
Subject: [VIHUELA] DNA
i can see where this is going - a sort of ... not
easily related ... fantastical ... trash it sort of
thing.
Not from me. Assuming you're talking about charango
I enjoyed this. Of course, half of these things aren't quite like baroque
instruments, but who cares? Acknowledge them for what they are and enjoy. I'm
not fond of the term 6 course Baroque Mandolin, especially with its
questionable use of capitalization (I would simply have said 6-course
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 6:29 pm
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: vihuela's black swan
--- Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Whatever folks were calling
vihuela in the 1500s
might have been very charango-like,
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, July 9, 2007 6:33 pm
Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: richard III and the charango
imagine how obfuscated 15th, 16th, 17th, 18th and even
19th cent. players of south american vihuelas might
have felt had their
I really enjoyed Ferries' Sanz disc, and I really enjoy Guerau's music. I'll
look forward to hearing this. Can I assume he uses bourdons at A and d for
this CD?
Delphian isn't so easy to come by on my side of the pond. I had ordered the
Sanz directly from the record company. If the Guerau
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From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Tuesday, October 9, 2007 2:59 am
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guerau recording
From what Rob says, it seems Gordon Ferries is playing a guitar
with
the fourth and fifth tuned AA and DD, not Aa Dd nor aA dD!
Sorry if I wasn't clear
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, October 25, 2007 2:33 am
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: ukelele in the papers
--- Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But a vihuela it ain't...
iberian men
brought their vihuelas with them
hola aloha
No matter how
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From: Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, November 29, 2007 7:43 pm
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: ] Re: Preston tuner history
OK, so this seems to
only
apply to the EG/cistre 'breed' of instruments (just a
metaphor,
Eugene)...
Indeed.
Eugene
To
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From: Stuart Walsh [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, December 15, 2007 4:07 pm
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: CALVI
Yes, I should have noted there are other tunings than just fourths
- but
never(?) the guitar tuning as in Calvi (?). And I should have
mentioned
the
Hola Lads and Lasses,
Most of my silence comes of discussions that don't interest me, like endless
quibbling over whether Karamazov is brilliant or idiotic. I amy not post much,
but I do post when I have something to say or ask. ...And I love you all.
One thing I do have to ask is how does
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From: Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, January 26, 2008 12:05 pm
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: contributions to this list
Looks fine to me. I'm in awe of anyone who could build their own
instrument.Hope you enjoy playing it, Bob.
Nicely done, Bob!
I don't build a
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From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, January 26, 2008 10:36 am
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: contributions to this list
unn ... arrrgh ... uunnn ...
seriously, i suspect there will be more contributing to the list
if those involved in the
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Saturday, May 3, 2008 5:50 am
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: machete
To: Vihuela vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
there's a small plucky-thing in puerto rico called a machete
but i'd
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From: Fred [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Monday, September 22, 2008 11:07 pm
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Lineage of early Guitars
To: Michael Gillespie [EMAIL PROTECTED], Vihuelalist
vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Personally, I find the differences significant enough to
consider
I've not seen this text in person, but am trying to persuade the music library
at the university where I work that they NEED this on their shelves. Sinier de
Ridder's shop tends to be expensive in all things, instruments included.
Best,
Eugene
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From: Rob MacKillop
Can I assume you're pursuing the Russian literature? Intriguing. Who made your
guitar?
You could plug the D'Addario gauges into a string calculator (like Arto's
http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Calcs/wwwscalc.html) and drop the
tension to something more to your liking.
Finally, what
Of course, there is a handful of extant similar French instruments from
the mid 18th c., but they have six single strings on the fingerboard.
I have no idea how the diapasons were tuned.
Eugene
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From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk
Date:
I don't own one, but they are kinda cool. There is still a living folk
tradition for chitarra battente in places Italian. Much of what is the modern
mandolin was borrowed from chitarra battente: canted soundboard, floating
bridge, strings fixed to hitch pins in the tail block, etc. I don't
Depending on context (where I've come from and where I have to go from
there), I will use 1st finger on fourth and third course and 2nd finger
on second or 2nd finger on the fourth course, 1st on third, and 3rd on
second.
Eugene
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From: Rob MacKillop
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