Here's some of my favorite players, Angelim http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK00GKQGJEk http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVtHcftRlbE These are tutorial videos so...
Hi Marion and everyone, This is some info in English on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viola_caipira And here is a site where you can hear the...
Hi Marion: It is not a harp guitar because Greg Minor says it isn't: <http://www.harpguitars.net/history/org/org-hybrids.htm> It did come with a hard case....
Hi James: I can still play dozens of pieces on it where fretting 7-10 is not an issue. I'm going to use it as a marketing tool, as I can now go after lute ...
Hello Stephen, Many traditional lutenists would call it a guitar. Many traditional guitarists would call it a lute. I call it beautiful! You were fortunate to...
Hello Claudia, It looks like a very nice instrument. How do you tune it? It resembles other instruments that I have seen: 1. Baroque guitar 2. Puerto Rican...
Stephen, These instruments suffer from one problem, like the pre-Yepes 10s guitar, the bottom strings cannot be fretted. Attractive looking, though! James....
Hello all: I have just joined the club that very few people dare to join, the guitar/lute club: My friend has had this instrument for for several decades, and...
Hello all, I am trying to learn (by myself) this incredible instrument through online tutorials, videos, etc. Any info on instructors in the Toronto area would...
Hi Emory, Firstly, as to my background, I have a bachelor's and a master's degree in engineering and a doctorate in mathematics. Thus, I am not a physicist by...
Fred, I have only played the classical 6s bass, tuned the usual way, an octave below the standard 6s. A classical bass has usually a 75 scale, and in...
Hi Fred, Thanks for writing. I remember you speaking about the fret-span issue before. I don't think I am unique. I have normal hands, maybe slightly...
Hi Fred, Thanks for writing. I remember you saying that about the fret-span issue before. I don't think I am unique. I have normal hands, maybe slightly...
Hi Emory! I also am a fan of such a long scale length ,,, at least for the bass side of the neck. Not so much so for the treble side of the neck. From about...
Hi James, Let's check one very fiundamental term. My mental construct of linear string tention is working off of Newton's second law. I think of tension...
John, It is a simple piece of statics to analyse the vertical force applied to a fret. The result, as you indicated, is that if the "action" of the string,...
Emory, There are a number of jokes about mathematicians, physicists, and engineers that manage to catch something of their respective outlooks, often in quite...
Hi Steven, I promise that I will get around to it. I really appreciated it, especially as it was a free gift. I love free gifts, coupons, samples, and so...
Actually the "tension" that Glen is talking about is the apparent tension to the guitarist, i.e., the ease of pushing a string from its resting position to the...
Hi Emory: Please do let us know your thoughts on the Aranjuez C string, should you ever get around to installing it. I had them because I had heard great...
OMG Glen, thank you for telling that.   I enjoyed the analogy to a bow and arrow, although in that case the scale length changes as the bow is stretched....
Steven, high tension on a 664 is only a bad idea on a big ten string at 664mm like my old Ramirez 1a that your friend in Chicago is using now, if it is...
There have been discussions on this subject on other forums. One person pointed out that (as is mentioned in Oribe's book) that even though the string tension...
In my experience, 815MT Hannabachs on a Ramirez 664 have HIGHER tension than 815HT on a 650 mm guitar. I know that some people put HT strings on the Ramirez...
Thank you so much for adding to this topic... Is the revision, James, that in the case of a guitar string, that elasticity, or possibly the first derivative...
Emory, With your physics background, you will have no difficulty understanding the formula for string tension derived from the solution of the 1D wave equation...
1. I am a big fan of 664mm scale length. Someone here (we needn't name names) previously told that placing medium tension strings intended for a 650mm on...
Hello everyone, Finally, after over 10 years of research, study, arranging, composing, practicing, translating, writing, editing, photographing, and other...
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