----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Alexander Batov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Monica Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:25 PM Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: What is the historical vihuela?
>I have a friend, Tyler Kaiser, who owns a Dan Larson replica of the 74 cm > guitar. He has absolutely no problems at this length for the solo > literature. > > ed > > At 07:19 PM 11/10/2005 +0000, Alexander Batov wrote: >> > I am aware that a number of baroque guitars have long string lengths. >> > I >> > don't know how people manage to play them. I understand that Linda >> > Sayce >> > had an exact copy of the Stradivarius guitar made which has a string >> > length >> > of 74.1 and she found it unplayable. Thank you for this information, Edward. Only what you quoted as my words are actually not my (they were in the context of my reply to Monica), or perhaps you didn't >: ... I know rather well that guitars with this sort of length are playable. Alexander To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
