[VIHUELA] Re: bourdons and no bourdons

[Chris Despopoulos]

   Nice stuff, Stuart!  I'm impressed with how the music sounds like it's
   coming from two different instruments.  An exaggeration maybe, but only
   a slight exaggeration.  The tunes themselves are different in nature,
   but the treatment really makes a huge difference.  Both treatments are
   excellent -- you play with feeling.
   cud
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   From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com
   To: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
   Sent: Sat, February 12, 2011 3:26:53 PM
   Subject: [VIHUELA] bourdons and no bourdons
   My guitar is a very, very humble thing: it just doesn't make a great
   sound. Anyway, a while a go I had it tuned re-entrantly and made a
   simple recording of 3 easy pieces.
   [1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4gsy_pBqyc
   And I've now got the guitar with bourdons on fourth and fifth,  and
   bourdon-out (as a lute) so the thumb hits the bass note first. And I've
   tired three simple pieces (that I had another go at, ages ago). These
   three pieces are from Selected Pieces from Jacob Kremberg edited by
   Rocky Mjos. (Good, sturdy tunes, Rocky!)
   [2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCiRDLwo-jI
   Bearing in mind this isn't a good instrument it still might be
   interesting how different the guitar sounds in these two contexts.
   Tuned to a low A, the guitar's lowest note is only a tone higher than
   the lowest note on a (six-course) lute in G.
   Stuart
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[VIHUELA] Re: bourdons and no bourdons

[Monica Hall]

Thanks for these.   Glad you are back with the 5-course guitar.  Didn't 
recognise any of the pieces.   The pieces with the bordon on the thumb side 
sounded as if you didn't have high octave strings.   Are Kremberg pieces 
arrangements of the song accompaniments in his collection of sacred songs? 
According to the instructions there are supposed to be bordones for this.


Anyway - being in a mellow mood I checked the thumbs up sign for both of 
them.


Monica

- Original Message - 
From: Stuart Walsh s.wa...@ntlworld.com

To: Vihuelalist vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 8:26 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] bourdons and no bourdons


My guitar is a very, very humble thing: it just doesn't make a great 
sound. Anyway, a while a go I had it tuned re-entrantly and made a simple 
recording of 3 easy pieces.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4gsy_pBqyc

And I've now got the guitar with bourdons on fourth and fifth,  and 
bourdon-out (as a lute) so the thumb hits the bass note first. And I've 
tired three simple pieces (that I had another go at, ages ago). These 
three pieces are from Selected Pieces from Jacob Kremberg edited by Rocky 
Mjos. (Good, sturdy tunes, Rocky!)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCiRDLwo-jI


Bearing in mind this isn't a good instrument it still might be interesting 
how different the guitar sounds in these two contexts. Tuned to a low A, 
the guitar's lowest note is only a tone higher than the lowest note on a 
(six-course) lute in G.



Stuart




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