Early Guitars and Vihuela

Baroque Guitar - Vihuela - Renaissance Guitar - Early mandolin - Gittern etc

Chris Despopoulos
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Strings - USA, NYC, or There Abouts
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Started this discussion. Last reply by David Tayler Oct 10.

Bordones & Sanz
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Chris Despopoulos Oct 28.

Tabalature Symbols
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Fábio Vianna Peres Oct 4.

 

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I once bought a Flamenco guitar in Granada (for a very good price) that had a similar bridge. Same form, but more rustic. The luthier told me the bridge represented los cuernos del toro -- I suspect because I was a stupid American. He also said th...
November 25
November 18
You should post a picture. You know guitar nuts always like to see a picture of a guitar. At least I do...
November 13
Actually, I'm finding it easier to improvise on the baroque guitar than I do for the mandore, or even for early music on the modern guitar. I guess I get the benefit of the proper instrument for the music, plus some familiarity with the logic of t...
November 13
Well, I'm half Greek, anyway. I try to have clean hands when I play. For me the problem is my sweaty arm and chest. Well, I try to remain calm when I play (not always easy), and always wear long sleeves. The sweat tends to destroy a French polish ...
November 11
So it looks like this site is an automatic archive of the original site, with some web crawler going out and finding this stuff. Not all of the collections are available, the De Visee notably being absent. The CONTACT page lists the following ema...
November 6
I just put the following in my browser, and got to this page! Viola! http://web.archive.org/web/20070816170352/http://www.baroqueguitar.net How cool is that?!
November 6
November 6
I'm of the benign neglect school. I remember there used to be lemon-oil products out there to polish and oil guitars. It was a rage back in the late '70s... until people started turning their fingerboards into mush. Needless to say, I don't keep t...
November 5
I'd be happy to see them. Unfortunately I don't know the ethics. I mean, the music should be public domain, but the effort to pull the tablatures together may not be. I defer to anybody else on this site who might have an educated opinion.
November 4
Have you tried using the fuller URL. For example, if the tabs are on the archive page, maybe the URL is www.baroqueguitar.net/archive... Would any URLS like that work?
November 4
Wow... I tried to go to baroqueguitar.net, and it seems to be spoofed by a disreputable site. If you're easily offended, I suggest you don't try to visit it for the time being. Is that what you mean by hit or miss?
November 4
Ouch! Really good.
November 2
October 28
Hi Chris, both instruments look very nice!
October 28

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About Me:
I currently have a mandore, which is a tiny 5-string lute. I'm working on the tablatures by Francois de Chancy -- You can hear a few attempts that I posted. Also jumping into the baroque guitar. I finally have a nice instrument by Carlos Gonzales -- nothing fancy, but it plays very well, and I believe the sound is superb.

I was introduced to the joys of playing Baroque music at la Semana de Musica Antigua, held annually in Gijon, Spain.

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At 4:14pm on October 26, 2009, Fábio Vianna Peres said…
Hi Chris,
I'm new to baroque guitar too and with the same questions you have about stringing. The discussions you started have been very useful to me.
I think Sanz sound better without the "bordones" too.
I've found here in this network very good example of Sanz layed without bordones. Go to Xavier's profile and check his website. There are some great recordings there and you can find more on youtube (only audio).
He uses the high g on the third too in the capricho arpeado and sounds great.
At 6:35pm on September 25, 2009, Jim Boyle said…
Hi Chris. Nice to find you here & still interested in the classic guitar.
At 8:04am on September 10, 2009, wolfgang wiehe said…
another wonderful source is:
PIERRE PHALESE: SELECTISSIMA...GUITERNA CARMINA, Antwerp 1570
Facsimile of Rostock Musica XVI-58, with an introduction by Michael Fink. Tree-Edition.
(a wonderful collection of Leroy with a lot of Arcadelt intabulations!!!)
http://www.tree-edition.com/TREE_Cat.pdf
see on page 29 => for 30,-€
At 7:55am on September 9, 2009, Jamie Holding said…
My budget is very low. Basically - under £1000...

But I know that that is a lot to ask in the cruel world of early instruments. ;)

Jamie
At 7:37am on September 9, 2009, wolfgang wiehe said…
hi chris,
use this link to Leroy on
http://musickshandmade.com/lute/collections/view/105
greetings
w.
At 7:54am on August 2, 2009, Rob MacKillop said…
Nice mandore music! You might be interested in this live recording I did for the BBC of mandore music from Skene ms. It is on my ning lute group page:
http://lutegroup.ning.com/profile/RobMacKillop

I'm not sure if you can hear it without joining. Anyway, it is track 12 on the mp3 player on my My Page.
 
 

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