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Re: What was the last concert you attended?
Last evening, Quartet Ebène at Maison de la Radio et de la Musique in Paris, where they are in residence this year. Out of this world performance (IMHO) of Beethoven's 1st String Quartet and…
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- 5 mths ago
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Re: If You Could Only Listen to One Composer for a Year, Who Would It Be?
For a year-long "single composer retreat", it would have to be somebody with a large repertoire to which I haven't listened at all. Buxtehude comes to mind.
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- 8 mths ago
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Re: What courses would you like to see next on tonebase Guitar?
A lesson on Passacaille by Tansman by Kassandra Siebel, who plays it beautifully, would be very nice.
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@David Krupka Thank you for detailed response. Rob MacKillop's video is very interesting and convincing regarding using a regular lute but with single-coursed strings (I love Rob's videos ...…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@David Krupka Michael Thames's guitars are great, but he is on the other side of the Big Blue Pond for me! I realize that a 13-course lute would be very interesting to explore Weiss + Bach's music,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@David Krupka I have listened a bit to Coste and Mertz (for ex., Drew Henderson and Alexandra Whittingham's renditions of these composers' music is really beautiful - then again,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@Dave McLellan Marten Falk, who is a great classical guitarist, is a specialist of the Russian 7-string guitar's repertoire: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtCE70VDqks
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@Dave McLellan&@David Krupka Thank you for your inputs. I hadn't properly considered all the ramifications of my suggestion to adopt a 7-string guitar as a solution for drop-D re-tuning issues:…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
@Dave McLellan Hmmm, point well-made, that is a dimension I hadn't considered (I don't have a 7-string though I am considering to get one). But I do have "the two guitars solution" at home with one…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Can anyone suggest a good guitar string to use?
As mentioned above, the string choice really depends on your instrument and your playing. After all, we're dealing with psycho-acoustics here! Please also note that the following is not an…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: How to get "Drop D" to stay in tune
Two, admittedly expensive, solutions of mine: . have two guitars, one with 6th-string in E, the other one with the 6th in D! . buy second hand or order a 7-string guitar with which you have a…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: What Non-Classical Musicians Inspire You?
There are so many. Frank Zappa for sure. Many great rock/hard rock guitar-virtuosos some of whom studied the classical guitar at some point or another (for ex.…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Using office chair for practice?
I keep a CG in the office and play it when colleagues are at lunch or during after hours. When doing so, I use my office chair with arm rests: the latter don't bother me as I sit slightly forward on…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Biographies and other books about classical guitarists
@David Krupka Thank you for the suggestion: I ordered the Tyler & Sparks book.
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- 1 yr ago
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Biographies and other books about classical guitarists

Dear All, Any good books about classical guitarists, virtuosos, biographies, etc. that you've read, enjoyed, and would recommend? I had read and very much enjoyed "Practicing:…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Is there a Video of a Performance that you CANNOT stop watching?
There are many excellent interpretations of Tansman's Passacaille. But I keep going back to Kassandra Siebel's version: her tempo and highlights gives the piece the gravitas that it so deserves,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why?
@Lannie Ligthart My wife complains about my "loud" CG playing. So, maybe I should rent a cello for a month or two and "work" on my bowing to put things into perspective! Joking aside,…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why?
@Dave McLellan Wow! ... those are completely different instruments. Even if you have the conservatory training and are a pro instrumentalist, it can't be that obvious to make these moves to…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why?
@Lannie Ligthart Interesting: I didn't think learning to bow would be that difficult -- I mean, after all, even Jimmy Page managed to do it (ha, ha, ha)!…
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: If you could play any other instrument, what would it be and why?
Cello for me: I just love its haunting sound. And I could play it like this (I mean, I'ld wish I could play the cello like this):
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- 1 yr ago
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Re: Who are the guitarists that you think more people should know about?
I think Emre Sabuncuoglu deserves more attention given the tremendous work he is doing transcribing many classical repertoire pieces to the CG. Here is one example among many (including the complete…
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- 1 yr ago
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