At 11:12 AM 9/29/2008, Fred wrote: >It makes me wonder why Sanz is so popular amongst modern guitarists. > >Could it be that the modern guitarists who are creating the current >popularity (which is a good thing, mind you) are simply unaware of the >sounds created whilst playing the music on an instrument with re-entrant >tuning?
I think it's more a matter of what was passed to the current generation of "classical" guitarists as "popular" by the last generation. In spite of requiring more modification to be convincing on modern guitars, Sanz was popular amongst Segovia, Bream, Yepes, etc. Best, Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
