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
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
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:
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
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
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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
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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
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: 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
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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: 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: 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
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: 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
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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,
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: 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
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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
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: 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
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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: 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: 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: 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
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, 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
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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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