Thanks, Ed! Glad to see you and the buddies are putting some mileage
on them! I'd love to be locked in a room with them (the vihuelas) for
a few days!
cheers,
Sean
On Jun 2, 2011, at 7:50 AM, Edward Martin wrote:
Sean and all,
We use the vihuelas by 2 means... my new group, the Chambure Vihuela
Quartet uses all 4 instruments together. See:
http://www.chamburequartet.com/ This is for all 4 vihuelas.
The 4 chambure vihuelas were built in 2004, for the Valderrabano
duets. See:
http://magnatune.com/artists/duo_chambure
The instruments are:
64 cm in F
59 cm in G
50 cm in Bb
45 cm in c
See:
http://gamutmusic.squarespace.com/a-set-of-matching-vihuelas/
This article will tell you everything you would want to know about
voicing and pitches for the vihuelas. In the Valderrabano duets, for
a minor third apart, we used the 59 (G) and 50 cm (Bb) vihuelas. For
the fourth apart, we used, 50 (Bb) and 64 (F)cm. For a fifth apart,
we used the 64 cm (F) and 45 cm (c) instruments.
Top strings are .42 sized - all strung in gut, at a = 440. Phil
Rukavina and I will be performing the Valderrabano duets in Gijon,
Spain in July. See:
http://www.sociedaddelavihuela.com/en/
ed
At 09:10 AM 6/2/2011, Sean Smith wrote:
Short answer, Anton: There are plenty of duos for 4th apart. and there
are plenty of duos for 5th apart. There has been little to no
information about how to pitch the smaller instrument --or even the
larger. Specify which and your playing audience will find the
instruments. I find 4th apart to be very useful.
In the 1990's there was an American builder who built quite a few
Tieffenbrucker descant copies at a 43cm mensur. There don't seem to be
any other models to build from. Unfortunately that length is just a
little long for a D instrument and although it will reach with a nylon
topstring it sounds shrill to my ears. With few people having an F
lute this has been the defacto descant in D for the Pacaloni trios.
The Vallet quartets demand two instruments an octave apart so the
descant must be a D.
When we found a shorter descant (40cm) the shrill factor decreased
considerably and we use the "Tieffenbrucker" in C where it is
considerably happier. F-tenor and C-descant make a very good 5th apart
pair, too.
Ed Martin has a collection of vihuelas including a descant. I'd be
curious as to its length, tuning and topstring. Ed?
Best wishes and thanks for all the music!
Sean
On Jun 2, 2011, at 3:07 AM, Anton Höger wrote:
hi,
is the tuning for the Sopran lute in "c" or "d"?
I mean the open highest string of the sopran lute?
Thanks
Aton
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