If you're interested in the music of the vihuelistas you might want to
take a look at this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55ImcX8SCe0

It's a combination of Narvaez and Josquin, very well done and almost
hypnotic in it's delicacy. Lovely stuff.

I wonder how many more of those intabulations of songs sound as well
when combined?

Robert

Why don't we all post a recording or preferably You-Tube performance
of Milan's Pavan #1, and cut to the chase. This will separate the men
from the boys. You have one month to post, and after that I don't
want to hear a peep from any of you........John can go
first..........Val.......followed by Tom Poore....I'll show you mine
if you show me yours!
MT

I hear many call spruce, the traditional wood for flamenco
soundbaords. So, then we would have to call spruce the traditional
wood for classical soundboards.
Going back to the 1960s. I remember going to the El Poche restaurant
many times and watching Mario Escudero playing a machine head Ramirez
flamenco with a cedar top. I remember Sabicas playing a Ramirez cedar
top, Juan Serrano and many many others. IMO, cedar has always made a
better flamenco than spruce. I had always felt spruce had all edge to
the sound and when cedar came along, in the 1960s, it offered a more
center and thicker sound and more volume. Naturally, these are
opinions. Yet, I have played many spruce classical and flamencos I
have loved. But, I don't feel it fair to call spruce traditional. I
feel it implies that if you're...

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Segovia, for sure. It is not - musically speaking - the wisest solution of
the problem, though it is practical.

ag

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