[LUTE] Re: Reentrant newbie questions

2008-03-25 Thread G. Crona
Its been repeatedly adviced on this forum to try and imagine the neck of the instrument as being "transparent" when looked at from the back of the neck, and using this "mindtrick" to visualize the italian tab. It seems to work for some players. G. - Original Message - From: "William

[LUTE] Re: Reentrant newbie questions

2008-03-25 Thread howard posner
On Mar 25, 2008, at 6:28 AM, William Brohinsky wrote: > I seek advice and help: On a student's budget, is there a source > for scale > and chord studies, the basics that would make the relations of the > strings > make more sense to someone who has been linear-all-his-life? Nigel North's book

[LUTE] Re: Reentrant newbie questions

2008-03-25 Thread David Tayler
If you are familiar with the ukelele (or the machete da braça) and the guitar AND are "linear" at the very least consider using single reentrant tuning, in the so called A tuning. your restrung guitar would be A d g b e' a This will give you a nice compromise of linear and reentrant, whilst p