Michael, Bravo on your idea to make a 13-string guitar. We need more of them around.
There are at least two luthiers in Europe who have made 13-string guitars. I will dig up the URLs and send them to you if you don't already have them. It certainly would make Weiss easier on the guitar. Even on an 11-string guitar, Weiss is not quite as much fun as with 13c. Are Lorimar's transcriptions for 6 or 8 strings? Best regards, Marion -----Original Message----- From: Michael Thames <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Apr 4, 2005 4:32 PM To: Alain Veylit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roman Turovsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Lute net <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Subject: Re: Willams Concert >I really like what this guy does: >http://www.vynograd.com/ particularly >his own stuff, as opposed to the obligado Bach pieces... >The 8-string >guitar has some interesting parallels with the Baroque lute, >no?:) And >there is plenty of good quality MP3s too on the site. And >technical tips >on how to fret strings with the chin. >Alain Alain, I think it's great. It reminds me, that I made an 8string guitar just so that I could play the Weiss Passacaglia, But quickly realized, I needed a few more strings, this lead to the lute. I'm in the process of designing and making a 13 string guitar. With some unusual features. I'm a purist when it comes to the lute but, at the same time I can't watch all my guitar friends suffer the fate of Weiss on the six string guitar anymore. Build it and they will come! My friend was just at Lorimar's a few days ago and tells me, Michael Lorimar has already transcribed 40 sonatas of Weiss, for guitar, and working on the rest. Soon to be published. Michael Thames www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alain Veylit" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Roman Turovsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Michael Thames" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Lute net" <lute@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 4:02 PM Subject: Re: Willams Concert > I really like what this guy does: http://www.vynograd.com/ particularly > his own stuff, as opposed to the obligado Bach pieces... The 8-string > guitar has some interesting parallels with the Baroque lute, no?:) And > there is plenty of good quality MP3s too on the site. And technical tips > on how to fret strings with the chin. > Alain > > Roman Turovsky wrote: > > >>I catch JW on the radio once in a while. To this day I cannot figure out > >>what's the big deal about this dude.... > >>RT > >>He's a legend, kind of like the Who. > >>Michael Thames > >>www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com > >> > >> > >Similarly marketed out of proportion, I suppose.... > >RT > > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
