Could someone more knowledgeable than myself tell me when, if ever, reprints of
Amat's 'Guitarra Espanola...' dropped the section for the 4 course guitar?
Please?
Peter
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Nice playing Stuart. I have made both 4 and 5 course mandores (photo
on my picture on lute.ning). 4 course for plectrum, 5 course for
fingers. A 5 course playing Skene, etc is on several CDs by Rob
McKillop - 6 strings using an octave on the 5th as suggested by Donald
Gill. Size and
Many thanks for this, Monica. Just right for a damp Sunday morning!
Somewhere in the 1970s I heard James playing banjo with what must have
been members of the London EMG. I seem to remember George Weigand but
am not sure of the others. This was at the King's Lynn Festival and
it rather
Some time ago there was reference to gut loops on the rear of lutes and
guitars. Michael Fleming has just sent me details of a painting recently
sold by Sothebys which apparently shows a loop of ribbon attached to a
nail(!) near the centre of the back of a small 5 course guitar - slightly
toward
on 30/11/07 3:00 am, Alexander Batov at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Dear Peter,
First of all, thanks very much for your drawing-comparison of different fret
patterns (some of which are from the other source than Darryl Martin's
drawing). I don't know what to say about the differences ... Maybe
Dear Alexander and All,
Alexander's discovery of so many ET positions apparent in the fret
measurements accompanying the museum plan of the Palmer orpharion has
prompted me to produce a drawing which perhaps better illustrates the
meantone nature of the fingerboard. I also possess another
To the plectrum/dedillo list could be added Mersenne's four course
mandore, where he mentions the possibility of a plectrum tied to a finger.
(On a plectrum instrument this would also have the effect of freeing the
thumb enabling the playing of chords with holes on this mandore and four
course
