"frankenstein" was always a favorite - might have left me with this monstrous yen to ... modify.
the worst - least esthetic - example i've seen so far is this: http://www.geocities.com/donaldsauter/qbarq.htm .. which has 3 paired courses. i don't know ... maybe i'll do it, maybe not - right now i've got olives to pick. - bill --- "Eugene C. Braig IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally, I tend to prefer to not alter the > configuration of my > instruments. I like them to function as there > builders made them. I > prefer to buy the instruments that already function > as I'd like. That > said, I take absolutely no issue at all with anybody > else who would like to > tinker ad nauseam with there own stuff. However, > I'm not entirely clear on > what you're trying to do. Are you setting this up > as a 5-course instrument > with two doubled courses, or a 6-course with one? > If the former, I'd > double the two bass-most courses (or leave it as is > and retune one of your > charangos); most 5-course music has the upper three > courses in unison; > bourdons come into play on the lower two. > > If the latter, I'm not sure how I'd want to approach > it. I suppose I'd ask > yourself why? What do you want of an xtra octave? > What music are you > trying to emulate? > > Eugene > > At 04:31 PM 10/20/2007, bill kilpatrick wrote: > >i might add that the suggested tuning for the > >guitalele is (bass to treble) a-d-g-b-e-a. this > works > >quite well as a 5c. guitar with an extra "a" for - > >more or less - familiar guitar chord patterns. > > > >i thought the hole for the 7th tuner would be > placed > >in the center, at the top of tuning platform - > >removing the "ma" from the golden "yamaha" logo > >(making it thus a "ya-ha" baroque-ish guitar.) > > > >--- bill kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >wrote: > > > > > a timely posting ... > > > > > > for months now i've wanted to put an additional > > > string > > > on my yamaha gl-1 guitalele: > > > > > > > >http://www.musik-schaller.com/shop/product_info.php?products_id=737&osCsid=11 > > > > > > .. to make an octave bourdon. > > > > > > this idea stems from the following article: > > > > > > http://www.classicalguitar.ws/baroque.shtml > > > > > > i bought a banjo tuner back from the states for > the > > > purpose and would be grateful to know which > course > > > you > > > might recommend for it? > > > > > > - bill > > > > > > > > > --- Rob <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Monica Hall has made slight changes to her > > > > commentaries on the Italian > > > > manuscript F:Pn.Res.Vmc ms. 59, fol. 108v, and > > > this > > > > might be a good time to > > > > remind us all of this excellent resource, now > in > > > its > > > > updated form on my > > > > website: > > > > http://www.rmguitar.info/Monica/Frontpage.htm > - > > > > Monica has made a > > > > compilation of original commentaries on > baroque > > > > guitar stringing, to which > > > > she has added her translations (some of which > can > > > be > > > > considered improvements > > > > on previous translations) and her insightful > > > > personal commentaries. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Rob > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > www.rmguitar.info > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list > information at > > > > > > > > >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > > > > > > > > > > > > http://billkilpatrickhaiku.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > >___________________________________________________________ > > > Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out > there > > > knows the answer. Try it > > > now. > > > http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >http://billkilpatrickhaiku.blogspot.com/ > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________ > >Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there > knows the answer. Try it > >now. > >http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ > > > http://billkilpatrickhaiku.blogspot.com/ ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
