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06-27-2006, 10:05 PM
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06-27-2006, 10:26 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | There were only three strings on his bass. If you look at the music he wrote you will rarely see any notes below a low A. I think I've only seen a lower note in only one of his pieces. |
06-27-2006, 11:29 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | His lowest string would have been a G, actually. G-D-A. |
06-27-2006, 11:33 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Pittsburgh, PA | | | I didn't realize that he tuned in 5ths. That's good to know. |
06-28-2006, 05:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Berlin, Germany | | | That was, btw, the standard-bass tuning of his time. Read something about the history of the bass and you will be enlightened! |
06-28-2006, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Karl That was, btw, the standard-bass tuning of his time. Read something about the history of the bass and you will be enlightened! | Helpful links?  |
06-29-2006, 12:02 AM
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07-11-2006, 03:28 PM
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 Isn't true that Bottesini tuning was the solo tuning (B,E,A), and he was the one that introduced it. I think i read about it somewere... |
07-11-2006, 03:44 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Houston, TX | | | You think that's bad? The same author is trying to sell a biography of Dragonetti for $175. |
03-12-2007, 09:33 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Chattanooga Tennessee | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Beto  Isn't true that Bottesini tuning was the solo tuning (B,E,A), and he was the one that introduced it. I think i read about it somewere... | I read conflicting articles between 4ths,5ths and a combination between the two. But I would assume that his lowest string would be a B since none of his works go lower than that (A orchestra tuning). He had all of his strings a whole step above the standard.
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03-12-2007, 05:21 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Serbia | | | In the preface of "Yorke Complete Bottesini" is written something like he used SILK string and tuned them a FOURTH above orchestra pitch.
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