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didn't know about the fiddleforum! thanx. On Wednesday, July 14, 2004, at 12:45 PM, Paolo Valladolid wrote: > 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. >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> __________________________________ >> Do you Yahoo!? >> Yahoo! Mail - 50x more storage than other providers! >> http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >> >> >> > > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail >