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Sometimes it's a painful necessity. I hate gear, but the only thing worse than gear is bad gear.

To answer your question, the minumum you could get away with is probably two cardoid or omni...

Did you ever find the sheet music for the concerto? I can send you pdf's of the score and parts if you like.

And here are the alternate versions. Most of them use drop D tuning on the guitar, but here's a version of Gnossienne 1 with the guitar tuned CGdgbe' and one of Gymnopedie 1 with the guitar in...

Damn, that was easy. Here's the others.

I saved them all as pdfs in a zip file, which I can email anyone. I see that I can post pdfs here, though, so I'm going to trythat too, if the files aren't too big. One of them, the Gnossienne #3, is...

I do most of them as uke/guitar (or uke/keyboard) duets - they'd work with mandolin, of course. Anyone wants my arrangements, I'm happy to share.

I know one guy, Alan Drogin in New York, who does...

There's a famous violin/piano arrangement of the air from the orchestral suite BWV 1068 that keeps the fiddle on the G string. It used to be really popular as an encore, even in the days when nobody...

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hope I can do you a favour some day.

Thanks very much, Victor! Very kind of you to share your music this way. I can hardly wait to get home and try it out.

I'd really like to have a look at that score - is Victor still offering it to MC members? or can I order it somewhere?

I'm reading James Tyler's book on Early Guitar right now, and in both that and his mandolin book he talks about the "mandora", which was a simplified lute called by a couple names and used in central...

Thanks very much for this! Are there bass parts for any of this music?

Telemann has always been a big favourite of mine; The Canonic Sonatas are fun recreation for two, and I've played through...

It's the Air from one of Bach's orchestral suites, in D, but the "on the G string" part comes from a famous arrangement for violin and piano, which I think might be in a different key. You could...

NoteWorthy Composer does that by "layering" - you do the two (or more) staves separately, and then superimpose one on the other. NWC doesn't do everything Sibelius will, but it's easier to use and...

Thanks, that's what I was looking for. Since my main interest is in the four- and five course instrument, I wanted to make sure that that material wasn't condensed or skimped in the later book. But...

I recently ordered the Tyler/Sparks book on the early mandolin, and found it very interesting and useful. I'd like to get his book on the Baroque guitar, but there seem to be two - his earlier one,...

I spent a summer vacation once playing throught the cello suites on a guitar tuned CGdgae'. It worked really well. I figured one suite uses CGdg tuning and one uses CGdae', so I'd have them all...

One difference between the instruments is that the string spacing is usually much narrower on a mandolin, especially at the nut. It favours single-note playing but makes chording a little more...

Thanks, Steve. I recorded this at a pro studio a friend has - swapped some bass-playing for studio time. I'm currently working on an all-Vivaldi disc, which has kind of stalled because I'm too lazy...

Thanks again for the music you sent me, Bill. You sent me some Vivaldi files awhile ago, which got me started on that project (though later I bought the scores, to clean up the arrangements I made...

John King's, right?

Thanks for the ideas - keep them coming.

I do have Noteworthy - I use it all the time. Any suggestions there? I raid the Scriptorium once in awhile.
Want to trade arrangements?

Corelli - good...

I'm looking for some new music to play, mostly at home for fun. I want things with easy keyboard or figured bass accompaniment, and intermediate parts for me.

What we've done so far is the four...

Weeks? it took me years...but of course I know what you mean, you feel you've broken the basic competency barrier and now it's just a question of getting quicker. My ideal is the serious readers, who...

I've got the Aria and about a dozen of the variations arranged with guitar accompaniment. I eventually abandoned the project because I decided too many of the variations were just too idiomatic for...