I'm reminded of the engraving of a riot/melee between those who support
use of the nails and those who do not. Face it... Guitarists are a
weird bunch.
How to you get a guitarists to be quiet? Hand him some sheet music.
What do you call a guitarist who broke up with his girlfriend?
Homeless.
How many guitarists does it take to change a light bulb? 10... One to
change it and nine to say "I could have done that better."
cud
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From: wikla <wi...@cs.helsinki.fi>
To: Vihuelalist <vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Wednesday, May 11, 2011 5:10 PM
Subject: [VIHUELA] Baroque guitar culture and habits?
Dear "flat back lutenists",
I just read:
>> I did :-) And I don't understand your edition.
> Perhaps you need to go back to school and learn some more
counterpoint.
Here we go again! Dear baroque guitarists, why cannot you be friends
supporting and adding up each others' brilliant ideas - as we lutenists
do
(or are we really?) - instead of fighting of every 7th and its
resolution,
and every borduna/ocave in stringing? Is this actually a phenomenon of
(modern) "classical" guitar culture brought to b-guitar world, too? I
still
remember my old guitarring times, when I was very "Yepesian" and was
fighting against the "Segovians", who were fighting against us.
Something
similiar here?
To me we "round back lutenists" are much more liberal (well, at least
relatively, compared to b-guitarists) in accepting different ways of
making
our music and stringing our instruments, etc. What could be the
explanation? Is the 5 course guitar really so critical a vehicle, or
does
the Segovian - not Segovian (or Sor-Guiliani?) contradiction affect
still
the guitarists converted from modern guitar to baroque guitar?
Positively,
Arto
PS I suppose the 5 course guitar was actually an extremely free and
wild
instrument - used "as is" and "as wished" here and there by good and
bad
players. I would recommend anything goes. Don't be too clever, play and
strum interestingly... I guess that is most "authentic"... ;-)
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