[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar stringing (again - sigh) was Re: Guitar bridges

2011-11-30 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Dear Martyn, Hmm again how can lowering the position of the high octave string of an octave pair (so that it lies significantly below the general string datum) not have an influence on the ease of playing just this string? Of course this requires to play a little more precise

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar stringing (again - sigh) was Re: Guitar bridges

2011-11-30 Thread Martyn Hodgson
From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar stringing (again - sigh) was Re: Guitar bridges To: Lex Eisenhardt eisenha...@planet.nl Date: Wednesday, 30 November, 2011, 13:53 Thanks for this Lex. One of my guitars does have

[VIHUELA] Re: Guitar stringing (again - sigh) was Re: Guitar bridges

2011-11-30 Thread Lex Eisenhardt
Thanks for this Lex. One of my guitars does have bourdons on both the 5th and 4th course - but I mostly use this instrument for continuo and do, indeed, find the basses are pretty strong ('booming') - as I would wish in this context. Good! But I suppose you can still play campanelas on