Hi Valery,

I've always enjoyed your lute videos. Do you have any guitar or vihuela recordings?

Nice 4c playing, Valery! I must get a 4c...

Nice to hear you play Le Roy's Tourdion. I've tried it on my own guitar but it is still beyond my reach.
If I heard correctly your lowest course is tuned g g.
Mine is tuned g' g. (g' on the outside)

Great playing on your 4c guitar, I wish I had one...

Hi val,
Do you know when and who has made the hand written corrections and extra notes in some of the renaisance guitar books like Morlaye's? Do you play them or do you stick with the original print? I don't mean the obvious mistakes but added notes to chords.
Timo

Thanks Val. I just wonder how to indicate the added notes in my tabulations. Maybe I just write two versions of those pieces.

Hi Val,

Sorry it's been so long since I checked this site. Thanks for your note. I like your Gorlier cover!

Best,
Jocelyn

Hi Val, thanks, it's great to be here! There'll be more videos soon...from you too I hope!

See you,

Sam

On ne se quitte plus, décidément ! A un des ces quatre, Valéry...

"Paris est tout petit pour les gens qui comme nous..." Les Enfants du paradis"; si Paris est si petit, que dire de la Toile?
Dans une semaine je devrais avoir mon nouveau Sellas, enfin son clone.
A bientôt

hello Val!!
i just singed in today.... Trond recommend it ! ;-)
.... you know i love early guitars and lutes as well as early harps!
ciao

Hi, Valéry. The world is really little......
Thank you for your wellcoming me.
Maurizio

on ne se quitte plus semble t'il! Merci de ton accueil

Dear Maestro Valery, how such a talent you have and a prolific talent. Now, I am learning the Prealudium of JSBach Lute Suite 1. Could you upload one of these days this work? thank you. Wilfredo

Bonjour Valery,
C'est une guitare baroque "ni neuve - ni ancienne"; elle a été fabriquée en 1977 par Sanchis Carpio à Valence; je l'ai dénichée il y a un peu plus d'un an sur le site de Jérome Casanova luthier restaurateur d'instruments anciens à Clermont Ferrand. Le son est assez puissant, mais la table est un peu déformée. Je joue en amateur principalement la musique de François Campion (Nouvelles Découvertes) et celle de Robert de Visée et depuis peu j'accorde en mésotonique (1/6 ème de coma syntonique). Il subsite dans mon jeu quelques problèmes de timbre (généralement lors des ornements) dus aux doubles cordes que j'ai un peu de mal à maitriser.
Cordialement.
Jean-Jacques.

ya, I made it, stumbled upon it today, thought it was a good idea to join, but we seem so few.

Hello Valéry and thanks! I forgot to mention that the song is by Antoine Mahaut (1719 - 1785), a Dutch composer :-) I'm playing basso continuo on a Mirecourt style guitar in this recording. Gut strings of course.

The words of the song are in quite hilarious archaïc Dutch.

Hi Val'ery,
Glad your taking up the ukulele. This instrument is a sleeper,
been playing it for many years. It can play any musical piece from any culture, in the right hands, I mean the most difficult pieces.

It takes a good 20 years to understand this instrument, I find the ukulele to be the best instrument in the world to learn timing and rythym on. Because of its size it gets you there quickly in "rythyming" which you can't learn from music schools. You find your hands quicker here.

I play the Keyboard, Guitar - (Hawaiian, contemporary, blues Jazz, latin,) love all cultural music. Play the Hawaiian lap top steal guitar, Bass, Auto harp (nice instrument), had a taste of the Mexican Harp, a very awsome instrument, sounds like 10 guitars playing. Love the harmonica.

If you like Hawaiian music, have you heard the Hawaiian slack key guitar ? It is very very pleasant sounds, much of the tunings are in open tunings, makes it much sweeter.

Nice chatting with you Valery.



To my Unknown Portuguese speaking friends to be, I need a translation
please, the term Machette de Braga, Does it mean, the Machette from Braga, Portugal ? and what does Machette mean, does it mean that particular knife, used to cut sugar cane with ?

Any one speaking portugues please respond.

Also anyone from around the city of Braga Portugal preferably a music authority on the Cavaquinho please refer them to me.

Have a few questions to finish my book on the "Origin of the Ukulele".


Thank you so much,

Charles (chuck) Kaimikaua

Hi Valery nice to meet you. Greetings from Mexico!

Hi Valéry
Many thanks for your kind comment. Carolan can sound beautiful on the 5-course guitar. It's the correct instrument for the period and there is evidence of guitarists in Ireland at the time.

Thank you my friend Val.

I found this site yesterday and it seems to me very good.

I'm happy because you are member of this site.

 

 

Thanks for playing my Bach arrangements in You tube.  You certainly provided an amazing musicality.  I am honored by your choice.