RE:Bowed Guitar

["Alan Kroeger" <nospam@akroeger.com>]

Yup if you want to bow a guitar this is the way to go check out the site 
for
sound clips I think there on soundclick. The pricing was reasonable for a
high quality handmade instrument which is almost a one off.

Link to sound sample http://bowedguitar.tripod.com/therainbow.mp3



-----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.
> 
> 
> 



                
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