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That's about what I was thinking - by the time of Bach, all the notes are there (Bach himself being one of the first to insist on that, IIRC), so the earlier trick of "making divisions" on repeated...

Kind of "pluck it & see" eh?

Thanks for the advice - I think I'll try them first in C maj and A minor as the easiest transpositons - Gmaj down a string for C, G min add 2 to all fretting for A...

I'm trying to link the Bach "notebook" minuet to the "Clavier book" one (from the tab archives). OK, I'll need to transpose one or both, but that's not the problem. If I'm in G major, is it easier on...

Not composing - just playing. Relative minor eg A minor is the relative minor to C major (shares the same key signature), corresponding major - C major #/ C minor where the 3rd gets changed (and 7th...

I'm working on a set which requires me to modulate from major to minor and back - as it's C17 music, I thought I'd use a "tierce de Picardie" for minor to major - but does that lead between relative...

Extra course on a mandolin? I'd go lower, and hang on to the 5ths in the tuning. That's because I do tend to use guirat parts, and the bottom end of a mandolin is often too high, and I don't fancy...

You've just made my day.

Thanks.

Now I know what to tell the Monsters to get me for my birthday.

I'm working on a 3-tune set of simplified Shadows tunes for mandolin, guirat & bass, and I've hit a problem with "Apache". As written, the tune calls for a low "F" at one point. Has anyone tried...

I still rate the Nic Jones version of "Little Musgrave" as the best I've heard. Pity that only "Penguin Eggs" made it from vinyl to CD, but that's one of my "must have" albums.

Looking at citterns, gitterns, vihuelas, four-course guitars etc. it seems that 4-string instruments tended to use 5ths, 5 or more courses tended to use fourths (often but not always with a 3rd in...

From memory only - didn't the Temperance Seven use a Stroh?

There's a third member of the group - Bandora (or Pandora) is the lowest, Orpharion in the middle, and Penorcon above that. I'd presume that the name at least of the Spanish "Bandurria" relates to...