From: Martyn Hodgson <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar bridges To: "Lex Eisenhardt" <eisenha...@planet.nl> Date: Tuesday, 29 November, 2011, 14:10
Hmmm .. we agree that it makes plucking just the lower of the octave pair easier if one wishes to do this (eg possibly in scalic passages from the third to the 4th course), But it makes things like campanella play trickier - where one wishes much of the sound to be in the same register as the upper course notes of the passage. So I'm really not so sure about the general desirability of what you suggest below - this seems to me to be advocating the dubious position of always requiring a low 'bass' line rather than simply accepting the unique idiomatic sound of the period instrument. regards Martyn --- On Tue, 29/11/11, Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl> wrote: From: Lex Eisenhardt <eisenha...@planet.nl> Subject: Re: [VIHUELA] Re: Guitar bridges To: vihuela@cs.dartmouth.edu, "Martyn Hodgson" <hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk> Date: Tuesday, 29 November, 2011, 13:40 > Of course, it'll make plucking just the high octave a bit trickier if > playing close(ish) to the bridge but, conversely, will make playing > just the bass of the pair a bit easier....... or actually not 'just' the bass, but it will be really easier to give more emphasis on the lower string of the pair, to make it sound like a bass. Lex -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html