FYI, "Lorimar" is the name of the TV studio that produced Dallas, The Waltons, Sybil, Helter Skelter, who knows what else. You could make an argument that a complete Weiss edition for guitar bears a relation to Sybil, but that's a whole other kettle of fish.
-----Original Message----- From: Michael Thames [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 9:26 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: Re: Willams Concert > Lorimar is doing great work I'm sure, but Weiss, even more >than Bach, has always seemed uncomfortable to me on the >guitar. I believe Michael is transcribing them for six string. >Your 13 string guitar sounds like the way to go; would you >tune it to the d minor tuning? Keep us posted. >James Yea, I think Bach is much easier on guitar than lute, funny enough, and Weiss is easier on lute than guitar. I visited Lorimar, a few years ago and watch him play several Weiss Sonatas, it seemed rather painful, coming from the perspective of a lutenist. Yes I would tune it to D minor, some of my ideas would be to join the neck at the 10th fret, but have 14 frets, and tilt it as on the baroque lute, with a kind of swan neck head, as well as perhaps, the core of the neck as on a 19th century guitar, for light weight. Any suggestions by you and others would be interesting. I feel it doesn't take that long for a guitarist to adapt form six to thirteen. It's really worth it just to play all of the Weiss and Bach alone, and the rest of the baroque repertoire. This has been on my mind to do for years, so maybe this year. As I said, build it and they will come. Michael Thames www.ThamesClassicalGuitars.com ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 7:04 PM Subject: Re: Willams Concert In a message dated 4/4/2005 4:34:07 PM Pacific Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. Lorimer is doing great work I'm sure, but Weiss, even more than Bach, has always seemed uncomfortable to me on the guitar. I believe Michael is transcribing them for six string. Your 13 string guitar sounds like the way to go; would you tune it to the d minor tuning? Keep us posted. James -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
