I have in my possession a quasi-Baroque guitar. It was actually Bob
Strizich's "first" Baroque guitar. It is just a Mexican classical
guitar where he squeezed ten tuners on to the headstock and re-
drilled the saddle. Works like a charm.
On Oct 23, 2007, at 9:38 PM, bill kilpatrick wrote:
"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
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