>Something strange about my letter; I wrote Lorimar, yet >the forward spells >it's Lorimar. What's up?
>James I don't know the same thing happened to me, did you get a scolding from Roman yet? 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 8:55 PM Subject: Re: Willams Concert > Something strange about my letter; I wrote Lorimer, yet the forward spells > it's Lorimar. What's up? > > James > > > > 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 > > -- > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
