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Hi Wolfgang,
I still play Peter Forrester's 54 cm renaissance guitar, as he mentions in the previous reply (it is a wonderful instrument). As I also have large hands, this works very well for me, and as a player of the renaissance lute (59 cm) an...
First, do you have gut strings or nylon ones in mind. If nylon (which I don't recommend), then the "only game in town" for a quick and easy fix is a set from La Bella (in upstate NY) from their website at www.labella.com. Ask for their String Cata...
To reply to Chris's question about bordones: First, if bordones are on the 5th course then, when you play chord solos, such as alfabeto pieces, a great many of the chords will sound with prominent wrong inversions. A number of contemporary theoris...
The octaves on the 3d do not create a different set of octave jumps when playing scales because the course is treated like the 4th course with octaves: you select which note in the course you want to play (assuming you string the upper octave on t...
Juan Pablo Pira has answered your Dlasolre question excellently. Regarding octaves on the third course, there is historical evidence for it and masses of music which suggest it in Italian sources. Remember that Sanz himself says that he studied gu...
Guitarists through the ages have always strung and played their instruments in any way they chose to. For Sanz's music I think it would be a good idea to see what Sanz himself says about the matter, and he does so in his own 1674 book on fols. 5v-...
In the facsimile I use, the fret sequence reads (ignoring which string it indicates):
0, 3, 1, 0, 0, 12, x (i.e. 10), 8, 9, x, 0, 7 which, if you are using Sanz's re-entrant stringing, results in the notes (ignoring the exact octaves of each): a, ...
Thank you for the very thoughtful and detailed reply which was quite helpful.
Option 1 is what I'm mostly doing on this particular project, with most of the pieces having a separate staff notation transcription separate from the tablature. But in ...
I do not have the Huete tarantela myself but I have seen it in a library while doing research. I also noticed that there are transcriptions of the Huete and other Spanish tarantelas for guitar and harp in the book by Maurice Esses: Dance and Instr...
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- At 11:26pm on October 9, 2009,
Martin McDowell said…
- Thanks , it's good to know that it's Schott who are now sitting on them. It was the Adrian Le Roy I was particularly thinking about... still, there's always photocopy of the original from the British Library reproductions dept. to fall back on...
- At 8:56pm on October 9, 2009,
Martin McDowell said…
- Hi James, do you think we are at all likely to see Chanterelle reprinting any of those Early Guitar facsimile books, which series you had a role in. That was such a good series, unfortunately I wasn't clued into such things in 1980, still, was in time for some of them at least.
- At 2:03am on October 2, 2009,
Fábio Vianna Peres said…
- I've read some excerpts on google books and I think it's just what I was looking for.
- At 1:42am on October 1, 2009,
Fábio Vianna Peres said…
- Hi James,
Very usefull your book! I've just ordered it at amazon.
- At 11:33pm on September 6, 2009,
Harry Jess said…
- James Tyler, welcome to this forum. Your book "The Guitar And Its Music From the Renaissance to the Classical Era" has given me hours of enlightenment and information and it still does. I can read it over and over again!
Best wishes
Harry
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