Re: Daevid Allen/glissando guitar

[David Beardsley <db@biink.com>]

David Beardsley wrote:

> 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.

viola 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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