Classical guitar with additional strings: Difference between revisions

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Note: Prior to 1963, a number of different types of guitars with ten strings were played by, among others, [[Johann Kaspar Mertz]] and [[Ferdinando Carulli]]. The first played an instrument with four additional free-floating basses tuned diatonically from D to A1. The latter called his instrument the Decacorde, which was tuned e'-b-g-d-A-G-F-E-D-C. None of these guitars, however, was a precursor of the Yepes ten-string guitar, since the tunings of these instruments were not intended to resolve - and do not resolve - the problems of resonance discussed above.

===Players:===

Modern/Yepes 10-string guitar:

*[[Narciso Yepes]], [[Stephan Schmidt]], Ishmael Barambio, Jonathan Leathwood, Godelieve Monden, Viktor van Niekerk, Simon Wynberg

Other types of 10-stringed guitars (including other tunings):

*[[Egberto Gismonti]], [[Dominic Frasca]], Anders Miolin

===Composers:===

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* Chris Malloy

* Ignacio Yepes

== Other Types of Ten-stringed Guitars ==

Note: Prior to 1963 (the year Yepes/Ramirez invented the Modern [[ten-string guitar]]), a number of different types of guitars with ten strings were played by, among others, [[Johann Kaspar Mertz]] and [[Ferdinando Carulli]]. The first played an instrument with four additional free-floating basses tuned diatonically from D to A1. The latter called his instrument the Decacorde, which was tuned e'-b-g-d-A-G-F-E-D-C. None of these guitars, however, was a precursor of the Yepes ten-string guitar, since the tunings of these instruments (unlike the Yepes Tuning) were not intended to resolve - and do not resolve - the problems of resonance discussedinherent abovein the design of the guitar.

Since 1963, Modern ten-string guitars - more readily available than replicas of period instruments - have been appropriated by some proponents of the abovementioned "Romantic" ten-string guitar, tuning the additional strings diatonically from D to A1. This has led to some confusion between two very different instruments: on the one hand, the "Romantic" 10-string guitar, whose purpose is an extended bass register, and the "Modern" 10-string guitar, whose raison d'être is linearised resonance for the chromatic octave as well as an extended bass register (both enabled by its specific tuning).

Still other guitarists have adopted individualised tunings that facilitate the playing of their highly personal repertoires; most notably [[Dominic Frasca]] and [[Egberto Gismonti]].

== Harp classical guitar ==