Ukulele and chitarrino?

2004-01-05 Thread Arto Wikla
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

Re: Ukulele and chitarrino?

2004-01-05 Thread Stephan Olbertz
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

Re: Ukulele and chitarrino?

2004-01-05 Thread Doctor Oakroot
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

Re: Ukulele and chitarrino?

2004-01-05 Thread KennethBeLute
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