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Renaissance Guitar by Giuseppe Tumiati

Under my profile I have stated that I have been waiting a looong time for a Renaissance guitar kit. Now Giuseppe Tumiati has sent me a ready-made, beautiful Renaissance guitar as a compensation. I think this was a most decent thing to do, and I just wanted this forum to know this. I also noticed that he had used octave stringing on the 4th course , with the octave treble upwards (towards the ceiling) as on a Baroque guitar. I have always thougtht that Renaissance guitar's 4th course was normally stringed/strung(?) like a lute, with the bass string upwards. But perhaps there are many ways to skin a cat? Interested to hear your opinions!
Best wishes
Harry

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Permalink Reply by Harry Jess on September 7, 2009 at 22:40

Interesting, Martin. Then you have it as on my guitar, and I found it quite charming too, similar in sound to my "Baroque" guitar. By the way, I'm quite convinced that I will get my real Baroque guitar soon also. I'll inform the forum then.

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Permalink Reply by Harry Jess on September 7, 2009 at 23:00

Yes, right, according to many connaisseurs strumming was also used on the Renaissance guitar, so this might be an argument in favour of having the treble above like the Baroque guitar where there definitely was much strumming!! And besides, it's easier to do campanelas when it is strung like that, enabling you to single out only the treble string since the thumb hits it first. Heureka!