Re: Daevid Allen/glissando guitar

[Paolo Valladolid <paolovalladolid@yahoo.com>]

This one probably ain't much cheaper:

http://bowedguitar.com/

I'm guessing we're a ways off before Musician's Friend
offers cheap knockoffs of bowed guitars, just like
they now have knockoffs of Music Man guitars, etc.

Still, I (and Alan K no doubt) have seen this luthier
hanging out on the Fiddle Forum and he seems to have
really done his homework on bowed guitars and the
history behind them.

Paolo


--- Travis Hartnett <tiktok@sprintmail.com> wrote:
> 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.  
> 
> 
> 



                
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