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Renaissance Guitar by Giuseppe Tumiati
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Advice on vihuela strings
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Corbetta's Caprice de Chacone in C Major
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I'm sorry about the price! I was thinking in terms of Norwegian currency. But still $2450 is within your price range, though.
Best wishes
Harry
You can have a look at Daniel Larson's web site. His cheapest basic Baroque guitar is around $1600, you can also choose additional details/wood and the price will be accordingly. Good luck in your quest!
Best wishes
Harry
Thank you for your advice, Traversac!
Well, in fact Julian Bream plays or played the lute that way ! On the opposite, for what concerns the vihuela, he plays it as an italian vihuela : All the strings, twelve in all for six courses, are doubled. So, do as you please.
Best wishes,
Roger
I recognized my guitar at once! I don't know why they haven't added this to their gallery before. The Lacote generally has a headstock shaped like 8 with friction pegs. Panormo was one of the first to use tuning machines, and personally I prefer t...
Yes, Spencer, I haven't noticed this! The price has gone up quite a bit since I ordered my Panormo, posssibly because it was the first Panormo replica he made?
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- I'm a retired Senior High School teacher with an MA-degree in History, Religion and English. I have been playing the guitar with irregular inactive intervals nearly all my life, I have never had any formal instruction, but have picked it up using several Teach Yourself books, esp. those of F. Noad. Thirty years ago I bought a Student Lute made by Alan Clarke, but have always found it a bit difficult to handle, the bowl slipping around in my lap etc. Therefore I bought a small vihuela two months ago, I like the guitar shape of this instrument better than the slippery bowl of the lute! I have an Alhambra 6c with Cedar top, and in two weeks I will get a new Loriente Clarita with Spruce top after having listened to the "expert reviewers" of Classical Guitar Forum. I do look forward to that! I have also converted my first smallish classic into a baroque guitar by installing 3 extra pegs and stringing it with baroque strings from Strings by Mail, and I think the result was good. I use the French tuning with octaves on the fourth course and unisons on the 5th and play Corbetta, de Visee. Sanz and others. But I wanted the real thing so 16 months ago ordered a Voboam from Luciano Faria of Brazil. It should have been ready for shipment in February but I am still waiting! So if anyone here knows something about Luciano, please let me know. 11 months ago I also ordered a Renaissance Guitar Kit from Giuseppe Tumiati of Italy, I was promised to get it before last Xmas, but now I am happy if I get before this year's Xmas! I also possess an Aria Sinsonido ,good for playing when other persons are to bed . I have a wife, 4 married daughters, one married son and 11 grandchildren. This in a nutshell the story of my life!
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- At 2:46pm on October 12, 2009,
Kernoa Patrig said…
- My e-mail is : patrig.kernoaAgmail.com (change A as @).
Takk, Patrig
- At 11:00am on October 1, 2009,
duophon said… - Hei Harry, då har du litt å halde på med mens du ventar:) Kjekt med nye instrumenter. Me snakkast. T
- At 9:50am on October 1, 2009,
duophon said…
- Hei Harry, noko nytt frå vår venn i Brasil? Tom
- At 6:17pm on August 8, 2009,
Harry Jess said…
- Rafael, no I'm not working with singers, I'm just a "home made" amateur who likes to sit in quiet nigth hours playing my guitars. I hope you will enjoy your stay in Norway!
Best wishes
Harry
- At 2:30pm on August 8, 2009,
Rafael said… - Hallo! do u work also with singers? l m current in Norway- Rafael.
- At 11:50am on July 17, 2009,
GRAHAM WADE said…
- Dear Harry, Many thanks for your kind comments, very much appreciated. In the business of being an author on guitar matters, one gets a lot of adverse comments, some of them unbelievable in their venom, so a compliment or two is always wonderful! I've written some twenty-five books as well as a few hundred articles over the decades, and the reason I write is always to find out things I never knew before and to understand certain aspects of the subject better. But even a book such as my Concise History of the Classic Guitar can arouse extraordinary critical responses - some think it's too superficial, others too detailed, some that it covers too wide a historical span, others that it should have gone back to the Middle Ages, etc...But in the end you accept a format according to a publisher and try to oblige...But the good thing is that the little Concise History has been one of Mel Bay's best sellers since its publication...I'm very pleased about that...Best wishes, Graham Wade
- At 6:12pm on March 29, 2009,
Steve Geroge said…
- Thanks Harry. The Martín Zapala instrument looks great value,, but I'll still have to save up!
- At 4:14pm on March 29, 2009,
Steve Geroge said…
- Harry, I've been wanting a fivre course guitar for years. The seriously high prices (even for "affordable" instruments) have meant this has been an impossiblity 'till now. I was intersted to see that you converted a standard classical guitar by adding extra pegs. How exactly did you do that? Do you have any photos of the result?
- At 6:51am on March 11, 2009,
duophon said…
- Hei Harry, kan du sende meg ein epost på: tomduophon@yahoo.co.uk?
Då slepp me å snakkast via denne sida.
- At 6:18pm on March 10, 2009,
duophon said…
- Hei, nei eg posta Huh på gitarforumet utan å få respons. Prøver kanskje igjen seinare, blei litt lei heile saka. Dersom du kan vere interessert har eg ein fin teorbe til salgs.
Har også prøvd å kontakte Faria igjen utan resultat. Du får minne han på meg dersom du høyrer noko. Sikkert greit at han veit at fleire følger med.
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