Raphaella Smits has a new CD coming out later this year: <http://www.rsmits.com/eDISK_CD11_ACR.htm> and some other news and updates on her website: ...
Strings By Mail now sells the Aranjuez 10-String set of 4 basses for Modern Tuning, also the individual strings: <http://tinyurl.com/2u7z2h> Stephen...
Hi Folks, I've received emails and phone calls recently about my decision to close my waiting list, so in order to avoid any confusion, I thought it would be...
Hi Michael, It's good to know that you're doing so well. How long, honestly, can somebody expect to wait to get a 10-string from you? Two thoughts: 1) Maybe...
... While I found it an interesting article, other than the altgitarren, 11s guitars are around, as others in this group can testify by personal experience....
Upon hearing that Michael McBroom is too busy now to accept more people on his waiting list, I emailed German Vazquez to ask how much he'd charge for a basic,...
Hello James, While I have a hold of you in cyber space I want to thank you for your letter about Dowland. So far I have not figured out how to unzip the ...
Spruce / E.I. Rosewood. Nice photos of a very pretty guitar. The builder also builds archtops. <http://tinyurl.com/3xaz2r> Btw., I hope somebody here picked up...
Hi Marion & James: You can listen to Paul Berget play Weiss on his 11-string guitar here: <http://magnatune.com/artists/albums/berget-jsbach/lofi_play> I've...
... builder also builds archtops. ... was a great deal for a ... guitars in Barcelona for over ... Stephen, Over the year and longer, you have kindly posted...
Hi Oleg: I think tariffs are only for new, imported products. I have purchased a used 10-string via eBay from Germany, and there were no import duties or...
... Welp, both my wife and my daughter would make good luthiers if they wanted to bad enough. But neither of them does. Too much work, sez the wife :) and my...
Thank you for posting that URL. Once again we see how much the difficulty of Weiss' music is mitigated by an extra-multistringed instrument -- esp in this...
Dear All, A sudden inspiration, yesterday, led me to explore how the Weiss Ciacona, that so impressed everyone, when played by GS on an 11s altgitarren in G...
I forgot to add that the 11s in D is a bigger instrument than the alt. With a 67 scale and a longer, deeper body it produces on this kind of slow-moving music,...
Hello James, Greetings from Arlington VA where I am on business. I would imagine that the longer scale length would sound wonderful with an added sustain that...
Hello James and everyone, It seems like we are all discovering pleasant surprises about our alts. I have found some of the music in the Dalla Casa book to be...
This guitar has been for sale for a long time at the Toronto, Canada guitar shop, The 12th Fret: <http://www.12fret.com/used/graf10stringTop.jpg> Graf is an...
Egberto Gismonti is to my mind perhaps the greatest talent on the multi-string guitar today. Here are some YouTube videos of him: <http://tinyurl.com/39xdgj> ...
Hello Marion, The problem of over sustain on the bass strings is less of a problem in this piece, as the tempo is slow. Where necessary, I use the usual ...
Thanks, Stephen! I've added that to the YouTube Multistring Group videos http://youtube.com/group/multistring Warm regards, PERF 10 String Guitarist Website:...
Brazzil—You play an 8, 10, 12, and 14-string guitar. Why so many strings? Egberto—Basically, I'm a piano player that plays guitar. Because of the piano's...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CywVT7QZ9XE http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7bmarzVqYo It's in Spanish and I can only pick out bits and pieces. Can anyone...
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