[LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar

2007-05-23 Thread bill kilpatrick
--- Alexander Batov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would be tempted to use it as a racket though ... batter-up batov badminton bean-boppin' bowl-back berater (charangosmiley symbol ... huge one) - bill http://earlymusiccharango.blogspot.com/ __

[LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar

2007-05-23 Thread Tony Chalkley
ubject: [LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar > > - Original Message - > From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:33 PM > Subject: [LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar > > >&

[LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar

2007-05-22 Thread Alexander Batov
- Original Message - From: "bill kilpatrick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:33 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar > bet you'awl wish you had a friendly little charango > 'bout now so as t

[LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar

2007-05-22 Thread bill kilpatrick
a simple experiment, to prove that a combined, two-bout, figure "8"-style sound chamber is better - more resonate ... different (at any rate) - than one is to drop a ping-pong ball into the sound chamber of your instrument. i realize that for those with fixed roses this is an impossibility but it'

[LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar

2007-05-22 Thread Alexander Batov
- Original Message - On Tuesday, May 22, 2007 5:16 PM "Ron Fletcher" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The theory I heard once, is that the larger bout of the guitar is to > improve > the lower resonance and, the upper bout for the higher resonance. Yes, this may indeed be a possibility. What

[LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar

2007-05-22 Thread Ron Fletcher
. But give it a thought. Best Wishes Ron (UK) -Original Message- From: gary digman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 9:27 AM To: lutelist Subject: [LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar I don't know if the figure 8 shape contributes in any significant way to the

[LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar

2007-05-22 Thread Tony Chalkley
to lead towards anything particularly intuitively obvious... Tony - Original Message - From: "gary digman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "lutelist" Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:26 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar >I don't know if the figure 8 shape

[LUTE] Re: who invented the guitar

2007-05-22 Thread gary digman
I don't know if the figure 8 shape contributes in any significant way to the sound of the guitar, but I thought the narrowing of the waist on string intsruments was to accomodate the bow. Isn't there a view that the violas da gamba evovlved from vihuelas whose players played arco? Gary - Orig