RE: Daevid Allen/glissando guitar

[Paolo Valladolid <paolovalladolid@yahoo.com>]

I highly recommend this forum to all bowed instrument
players, regardless of stylistic preferences.  I've
gotten a lot of good info myself from it.

Paolo

--- Alan Kroeger <nospam@akroeger.com> wrote:
> Oh also if you play a bowed instrument and loop come
> join the conversation
> at Alternative Strings and Fiddle Forum
> http://www.fiddleforum.com/fiddleforum 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paolo Valladolid
> [mailto:paolovalladolid@yahoo.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 2:58 PM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: Daevid Allen/glissando guitar
> 
> 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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