But of course the Russian guitar employs overwound strings (as did the
theorbo-like extension on the 19th century 'Bass' guitar as played by
Mertz, Dubez and others) and produces a strong bass with relatively
short basses and thus does not really tell us much about the earlier
guitarre theorbee.
MH
--- On Thu, 27/8/09, Stuart Walsh <s.wa...@ntlworld..com> wrote:
From: Stuart Walsh <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
Subject: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitarre theorbee
To: "Monica Hall" <mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk>
Cc: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Thursday, 27 August, 2009, 10:02 PM
Monica Hall wrote:
> Just to let you all know that the final version of my thoughts on
the
> subject of the Guitarre theorbee is now on my own web page -
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> [1]www.monicahall.co.uk
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> It includes a staff notation transcription of all twelve pieces
from
> the Gallot manuscript.
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> Monica
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Quite an intricate argument! So, for the Gallot pieces, the bass line
is either implausibly low or - if an octave higher - then just one
extra course tuned to G would give the same range as seven (!) extra
basses? Sorry, if I've misunderstood.
It might be slightly interesting to note that the normal 7-string
Russian guitar (of the 19th century) had a version with extra basses
but was tuned so that the lowest string was only one tone lower than
the ordinary 7-string version. The ordinary Russian guitar has the
seventh string at D, the Russian 10-string guitar has the lowest note
at C. Yet, quite often, music for the 7-string guitar directs the
player to lower the seventh string to C. So the ordinary, 7-string
Russian guitar covers the same range as the 10-string version. But the
extra basses are not primarily functioning to extend the range of bass
notes but perhaps for sonority or to make some bass notes easier to
play. Maybe something similar is intended for the Gallot instrument?
Was it mentioned in the recent discussion that at least one maker is
offering a guitar with extra basses - for playing the music of
Granata...and...Gallot?
Stuart
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