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| 1530.1 | Quinto, Maybe? | AQUA::ROST | Chickens don't take the day off | Tue Oct 24 1989 18:16 | 7 |
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It sounds like an instrument used in Mexican and Central American
music. I believe the ones with five pairs of strings are called
"quintos". A similar instrument is called the "bajo sexto", but I
believe this actually has twelve strings.
Brian
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| 1530.3 | Martin used to make them | TOOTER::WEBER | | Tue Oct 24 1989 19:57 | 1 |
| It's a Tiple
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| 1530.4 | exit | WJOUSM::MAY | IT'S LIKE THE SAME, ONLY DIFFERENT! | Wed Oct 25 1989 11:09 | 10 |
| So,, its a Tiple,,, I guess I have a little research in front of me
to find out more about it. I think I will start with Cambridge music
Emporium. If someone gets down there before I do can you see what they
have for instructional book or literature on it and post it here??
Thanks
Bruce May
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| 1530.5 | electric answer | USRCV1::REAUME | Supreme Court- Syracuse Hoop | Wed Oct 25 1989 17:37 | 11 |
| It's not what your looking at, but a B.C. Rich Bich has ten strings.
It was supposed to be a cross bewteen a six and twelve string. The
low E and A were single strings while the four high strings were
paired like a twelve string. The headstock had six tuning machines
while the extra four strings were tuned from a assymetrical cutaway
at the bottom of the body. When you first saw one of these you probably
said Whatthehellisthat? After a while B.C. Rich came out with a
six string Bich (I bought one) with the same body design and a double
neck 6 and 12 string.
This is the first thing that came to my mind when I saw "What
has ten strings?"
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| 1530.6 | Tiple play | RAINBO::WEBER | | Thu Oct 26 1989 20:26 | 13 |
| Everything I know about Tiples:
They are tuned : A D F# B in the same pitch as a Ukelele
The pairs of strings are tuned in unisons. The outside strings of the
triples are in unison, the center string down one octave.
"Tiple" is Argentine for small guitar
I have no idea what you actually do with one of these.
Danny W.
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| 1530.7 | | ZYDECO::MCABEE | les haricots | Thu Oct 26 1989 21:10 | 4 |
| I've heard the tiple played pretty much like a mandolin. That's what I do
when I pick one up.
Bob
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| 1530.8 | It is definately a Tiple | WJOUSM::MAY | IT'S LIKE THE SAME, ONLY DIFFERENT! | Mon Oct 30 1989 14:35 | 10 |
| I just had it varified that it is a tiple,,, I saw one in a Martin
catelog too. In fact,,,,,,, I am hoping that this is a Martin!!
The music emporium should be able to tell me that. I will be bringing
it there within the next few weeks to have a new bridge put on it and
I'll let them string and tune it. If it has strings I can play it!!
Thanks for your help
Bruce May
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| 1530.9 | | VLNVAX::ALECLAIRE | | Sun Jan 21 1990 19:22 | 9 |
| There are also classical guitar with 10 strings, Ramirez makes them,
I've never seen others. Narcisso Yepes ( spelling is prob. wrong )
and has recordings out ( well ,before CD )
The strings are separate, the necks VERRRRRRRRRRRRRY wide,
they can be used to play Lute music with less transcription
changes than 6 strings. Those things had Many strings.
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| 1530.10 | | ZYDECO::MCABEE | les haricots | Mon Jan 22 1990 16:37 | 16 |
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> There are also classical guitar with 10 strings, Ramirez makes them,
> I've never seen others. Narcisso Yepes ( spelling is prob. wrong )
> and has recordings out ( well ,before CD )
> The strings are separate, the necks VERRRRRRRRRRRRRY wide,
> they can be used to play Lute music with less transcription
> changes than 6 strings. Those things had Many strings.
Yeah, some of the Baroque lutes look like "harp lutes".
I believe Yepes has recorded all of the Bach lute suites. It's pretty
interesting to hear those bass lines in the original octave.
Bob
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