Re: Ukulele and chitarrino?
I attended James Tyler's class on the early guitar at the Lute Society of America summer seminar of 1993 in Rochester, New York, in which he made a point of telling us that the little chitarrino (renaissance four course guitar) was spread to many corners of the world through Jesuit missionaries in the 16th and 17th centuries and, although long extinct in its original form, survives in various "living fossil" types: the ukulele in Hawaii, the charango in South America, and similar forms and sizes in other locations (such as the Canary Islands and in Mexico), often with re-entrant tuning, and sometimes using tablature notations. Can anybody else name these current day types in their respective countries? Kenneth
Re: Ukulele and chitarrino?
BTW, I regularly play renaissance guitar music on my baritone uke (which is tuned like the top 4 on a guitar) and it works great. Of course the uke is a direct descendant of the renaissance guitar... but by way of the modern guitar. That is, after the development of the six string guitar, the Portuguese developed a number of small variants, one of which found it's way to Hawaii where it was duplicated. Arto Wikla wrote: > > Hi all > > On Friday 02 January 2004 01:50, Bill Sterling wrote: >> ? >> >> http://www.crane.gr.jp/HyperUkuleleSchool/hyper-U/Weiss/Passagaille_1.gif > > I made a few ukulele searchs by Google, and to my astonishment the > little guitar is often tuned in g c e a in re-entrant way (so the > "low" 4th string is a fifth higher than the 3rd string. > > This tuning is like the renaissance guitar (chitarrino) tuning. > (Well, the chitarrino has both the high and low g in the 4th course.) > > Anyhow, some of the google found pages could tell that one Portuguese > instrument was taken to Ocean islands in 19th celtury, and that instrument > gave the idea for ukulele. > > Does the collective List Wisdom happen to know, if it really is so that > the ukulele is a direct(?) descendant of renaissance guitar? > And is there anything in common in the playing technique? > > Arto > > > -- Rough-edged songs from a dark place in the soul: http://DoctorOakroot.com
Re: Ukulele and chitarrino?
Dear Arto, a Ukulele (and double bass!) player told me that it's played with a thumb down stroke and index up stroke, not the other way round as one might expect. It's a bit like renaissance technique, isn't it? Regards, Stephan Am 5 Jan 2004 um 12:17 hat Arto Wikla geschrieben: > > Hi all > > On Friday 02 January 2004 01:50, Bill Sterling wrote: > > ? > > > > http://www.crane.gr.jp/HyperUkuleleSchool/hyper-U/Weiss/Passagaille_ > > 1.gif > > I made a few ukulele searchs by Google, and to my astonishment the > little guitar is often tuned in g c e a in re-entrant way (so the > "low" 4th string is a fifth higher than the 3rd string. > > This tuning is like the renaissance guitar (chitarrino) tuning. > (Well, the chitarrino has both the high and low g in the 4th course.) > > Anyhow, some of the google found pages could tell that one Portuguese > instrument was taken to Ocean islands in 19th celtury, and that > instrument gave the idea for ukulele. > > Does the collective List Wisdom happen to know, if it really is so > that the ukulele is a direct(?) descendant of renaissance guitar? And > is there anything in common in the playing technique? > > Arto > > >
Ukulele and chitarrino?
Hi all On Friday 02 January 2004 01:50, Bill Sterling wrote: > ? > > http://www.crane.gr.jp/HyperUkuleleSchool/hyper-U/Weiss/Passagaille_1.gif I made a few ukulele searchs by Google, and to my astonishment the little guitar is often tuned in g c e a in re-entrant way (so the "low" 4th string is a fifth higher than the 3rd string. This tuning is like the renaissance guitar (chitarrino) tuning. (Well, the chitarrino has both the high and low g in the 4th course.) Anyhow, some of the google found pages could tell that one Portuguese instrument was taken to Ocean islands in 19th celtury, and that instrument gave the idea for ukulele. Does the collective List Wisdom happen to know, if it really is so that the ukulele is a direct(?) descendant of renaissance guitar? And is there anything in common in the playing technique? Arto
