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Re: glissentar
In a message dated 12/31/2002 7:33:38 AM Mountain Standard Time, Hedewa7@aol.com writes:
also, in contradistinction to what wayne w.j. stated about the glissentar:
it's my clear impression that the glissentar was not robert godin's idea;
it was intitiated &executed by montréal luthier mario beauregard.
mario was then chief guitar-luthier at godin;
he left the company --- after many years, there --- just as the glissentar
was being released.
wayne w.j. said, in relation to the single low-string on the glissentar:
>I believe Godin went this route to avoid buzzing on the bass string.
this may be the case, but ---having been involved in the prototyping of the
glissentar, myself--- i believe it's more likely that mario was attempting to
emulate the historical profile of the oud, which almost always has a single
low-end 'drone'-type string, sometimes called the 'dumm', i think.
This is very interesting....thanks for the feedback. I only had what Robert Godin shared with me, to go by. I didn't know about Mario. I have been to the factory, and do have one of the early models. Your suggestions are helpful, indeed.
Thanks. WWJ
