Re: Daevid Allen/glissando guitar

[Travis Hartnett <tiktok@sprintmail.com>]

Ah: the Botar

http://www.dramm.de/botare.htm

About $US2500.  Oof!

TravisH

Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 13:07:30 -0400
From: DJ <dhjohnson@mindspring.com>
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Daevid Allen/glissando guitar

My ultimate dream is to some day have a luthier build me a modern 
arppegione which is a bowed guitar that is held like a cello.  Schubert 
wrote a sonata for it that is today played on the cello.  The nice 
thing about an arppegione for guitarists is the tuning is the same as a 
guitar so one already knows his way around the neck, and it has frets, 
so a guitarist that is used to having some kind of fret reference is 
not all of a sudden thrust into a realm that is totally unfamiliar.  I 
understand that there is still some work to be done on bowing 
technique, but I think most guitarists could handle this with a little 
practice.

I think if a company came out with an "electric" version of such an 
instrument that was not too expensive it could be wildly popular.