Thanks for these. Glad you are back with the 5-course guitar. Didn't
recognise any of the pieces. The pieces with the bordon on the thumb side
sounded as if you didn't have high octave strings. Are Kremberg pieces
arrangements of the song accompaniments in his collection of sacred songs?
According to the instructions there are supposed to be bordones for this.
Anyway - being in a mellow mood I checked the thumbs up sign for both of
them.
Monica
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stuart Walsh" <s.wa...@ntlworld.com>
To: "Vihuelalist" <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, February 12, 2011 8:26 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] bourdons and no bourdons
My guitar is a very, very humble thing: it just doesn't make a great
sound. Anyway, a while a go I had it tuned re-entrantly and made a simple
recording of 3 easy pieces.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4gsy_pBqyc
And I've now got the guitar with bourdons on fourth and fifth, and
bourdon-out (as a lute) so the thumb hits the bass note first. And I've
tired three simple pieces (that I had another go at, ages ago). These
three pieces are from Selected Pieces from Jacob Kremberg edited by Rocky
Mjos. (Good, sturdy tunes, Rocky!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCiRDLwo-jI
Bearing in mind this isn't a good instrument it still might be interesting
how different the guitar sounds in these two contexts. Tuned to a low A,
the guitar's lowest note is only a tone higher than the lowest note on a
(six-course) lute in G.
Stuart
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