Re: Daevid Allen/glissando guitar

[David Beardsley <db@biink.com>]

DJ wrote:

> 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 thought it was called the vila de gamba.

http://vdgsa.org/

I've played the guitar all my life and I like the cello. Without frets.

I tried a friends electric cello last Winter and spent
an late evening looking at electric cellos on line.  And a week
talking myself out of it. I have enough toys.

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