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Post by theevan on Jan 16, 2021 11:08:13 GMT -5
Guitar-related. So sue me!
Baroque guitar. It's either 10 or 9 strings (can't tell), arranged in "courses" like a 12-string. If it's 9, the high string is a single, the rest doubled (either unison or octave).
About a minute in the strumming sounds like a bunch of guys. I'm pretty sure it's just him.
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Post by james on Jan 16, 2021 12:06:20 GMT -5
Nine Strings (I think). His hand doesn't seem to move enough to make that sound does it? The strum and the picked part before it are very tuneful aren't they. Here's the next video that YouTube showed me. I like the tune at 2:20ish best.
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Post by TKennedy on Jan 16, 2021 12:30:51 GMT -5
Cool! The tiny subculture of Baroque guitar. I'd love to see their secret handshake .
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Post by james on Jan 16, 2021 12:35:15 GMT -5
Somebody posted a nifty video of another guy playing a similar guitar, made by Stradivarius, a while ago. (Prob. Evan?)
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 16, 2021 13:28:59 GMT -5
Despite the gulf of time and culture, it's hard not to hear pre-echoes of flamenco--and some of his right-hand technique around the 1:50 mark looks a lot like what I've seen in flamenco players. It sounds even more "Spanish" than the actually-Spanish pieces Rincón plays in the other video. (Though the "Tarantelas" does have some tapping.)
Then there's this:
And this even more:
Makes me wonder about how techniques (as well as dance forms) got passed down/around over the centuries, to wind up in the repertories of 19th-century Roma in Andalusia.
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Post by theevan on Jan 16, 2021 17:00:33 GMT -5
Nail on the head, Russell.
I'm musicologists have gone down that rabbit hole.
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Post by david on Jan 16, 2021 17:33:53 GMT -5
The first one, and to some extent the others, have a resonator character to their sound.
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Post by gbacklin on Jan 16, 2021 22:13:44 GMT -5
Somebody posted a nifty video of another guy playing a similar guitar, made by Stradivarius, a while ago. (Prob. Evan?) This might have been the one ? |
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 16, 2021 22:57:28 GMT -5
If you want an interesting rabbit-hole to go down, Google "Santiago de Murcia Tarantela," choose Videos, and watch the variety of arrangements and interpretations of this piece. This one is more baroque-sounding than Lislevand's balls-out take without being tame--
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Post by Marty on Jan 16, 2021 23:06:57 GMT -5
Damn, you just reminded me I have one of those in my shop right now. Neck broken off, a real mess. Pierced parchment wedding cake rosette like in the 3rd video, complete PITA if there is any internal damage. I can think of ways to get around that paper rosette but none of them easy and removing the back may be the best option.
One of my oldest customers. He plays Classical guitar, Baroque guitar, several types of lutes including Theorbo and Viola Da Gamba.
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Post by Russell Letson on Jan 16, 2021 23:15:58 GMT -5
Years ago, Tom Crandall had a commission to build a replica of a Stradivari guitar and showed me the multilayer parchment rosette he was working on. I don't know whether he ever finished the guitar, but the rosette was very impressive.
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Post by Cosmic Wonder on Jan 16, 2021 23:50:19 GMT -5
Damn, you just reminded me I have one of those in my shop right now. Neck broken off... If it ain’t Baroque, don’t fix it. Mike |
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Post by RickW on Jan 17, 2021 1:54:28 GMT -5
I saw that too, Evan. Susan and I loved it. Found two albums by him on Spotify, but both with just a standard guitar. Not that inspired in the playing either. I could listen to a whole album of what he did in that video, easily.
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Post by Marty on Jan 17, 2021 13:41:36 GMT -5
Damn, you just reminded me I have one of those in my shop right now. Neck broken off, a real mess. Pierced parchment wedding cake rosette like in the 3rd video, complete PITA if there is any internal damage. I can think of ways to get around that paper rosette but none of them easy and removing the back may be the best option. One of my oldest customers. He plays Classical guitar, Baroque guitar, several types of lutes including Theorbo and Viola Da Gamba. Add to that list a 11 string classical that he tunes the first 4-5 strings to a open Dm and the rest are sympathetic or open basses. |
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Post by TKennedy on Jan 17, 2021 15:55:13 GMT -5
That has to be your fellow stent-mate Paul B  |
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