A comparison of Modern and Baroque Cellos
... prefer to use metal strings. This differs greatly from the Baroque practice of using gut strings. Metal strings, chiefly made because ... View More
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Reflections on Bach
... One edition preserved the polyphonic nature by using one bow for each voice, but ... The Baroque cello used gut strings and a curved bow, while modern cellists use ... View More
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The guitar
... The others were still made for gut. ... He found that when he struck the strings the sound was greatly ... By 1936 he was using a guitar with an electric pickup and ... View More
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Medieval Instruments
... Cshaped sound holes, and tiedon gut frets that ... slightly out of reach of the strings, thus making ... The first is using recent principles of constructions, like ... View More
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History of the Guitar
... 1890amp39s it went out of fashion when steel strings began to replace those made from gut, adding more ... Paul, who created his own ampquotlog guitarampquot using a Gibson ... View More
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Homeric Hymns to Hermes and De
... is honored as having created the first Lyre through using the intestines from ... by a crosspiece from which he stretched seven harmonious strings of sheepgut. ... View More
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Acceptance Essays