The four-course guitar also had a different tuning than D-G-B-E tuning; rather it was tuned to C-F-A-D which is a tone lower. Then later in the sixteenth century the five-course guitar was established. This guitar was exact same as the four-course guitar just had frets an
Ever since its invention in the late 18th century, the bass clarinet has evolved into the instrument that is used in orchestras and bands. The bass clarinet is made of grenadilla wood or African blackwood and is approximately 4 1/2 feet long. The first bass clarinet was invented in 1793 by Heinrich Gresner of Dresden, Germany. He was a pioneer clarinet maker who was interested in enhancing the range of the clarinet. His first bass clarinet had nine keys and was pitched in B major.
Amati added two more strings and changed not only it's size, but also the shape of the violin. Amati invented or perfected one of the most popular and beautiful instruments in the history of music. The violin Amati had perfected, immediately became popular among both street musicians and nobility. Because of it's popularity, the French King Charles IX ordered Amati to create 24 violins in 1560. One of the 24 violins that the king had made for himself is now called Charles IX and is the oldest violin in the world.
The guitar has become one of the most prominent components of contemporary music. People have been playing instruments very similar to the guitar for hundreds of years. Michael Kasha’s book A New Look at the History of the Classic Guitar shows that there has even been a discovery of a certain Hittite carving from over 3,000 years ago that shows an instrument that seems to share many features of a modern guitar (Kasha 12). The guitar is a member of the chordophone family, meaning that it is an instrument that creates sound through vibrating strings that are stretched between two points. About sixty years ago, the guitar underwent a modification that would forever change the rest of the musical world- it was electrified.
After they thought about it for a while, they would realize that it was. “The roots of a guitar are in Spain.”(Some Guitar History) “The origin of the guitar cannot be traced back any further than the Fifteenth century.”(Some Guitar History) “The first guitar was invented by the people of Malaga. It is believed that the Ukelele was derived from this four-course guitar. This specific guitar had four pairs of strings, each pair being called a course.”(Some Guitar History) “Respect for the guitar wasn’t very high during the Renaissance period. The guitar wasn’t considered a serious instrument at all.”(Some Guitar History) “Alonso Mudarra’s “Tres Libros de Musica en Cifras para Vihuela” is thought to be the first musical publication that the guitar had.
History of the Mariachi The best scholarly opinion is that the word mariachi has native roots. One theory is that it comes from the name of the wood used to make the platform on which the performers danced to the music of the village musicians. But whatever the true source, the word today has one meaning that is crystal clear: Mariachi means on of the most exciting and enchanting musical ensembles found anywhere in the world. In the complete Mariachi group today there are as many as six to eight violins, two trumpets and a guitar- are all standard European instruments. Natives, who had their own highly developed musical traditions, quickly mastered European musical practices.
His students, Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri, brought violin making to a new level with the help of a newly used science, physics, along with their artisans skills. After this, violin making expanded rapidly throughout Europe and the rest of the world, and for the last 150 years, violins made by Stradivari and Guarneri have been the preferred brand for orchestras around the globe. So what makes the violin so special and different from other instruments? Physics is a leading cause of why the violin is so different from others. There are many different physical concepts involved with a violin, including everything from its strings, to how it is played; even to the shape and the sound it emits.
He lived to be 27 years old and was believed to be poisoned. The style he played was known as string bending and used the bottle-neck slide to modify the sound the guitar made. Blues greatly influenced rock music. If it was not for slaves, blues would not have developed. Other famous musicians at this time period were Blind Lemon Jefferson, Lead belly, and Memphis Minnie.
Bass Guitar I chose the bass guitar because it seemed like an interesting instrument and I've always wanted to learn how to play any kind of guitar. I also chose the bass guitar because Maurice Gibb, a member of my favorite band the Bee Gees, plays it. In the 1930s, musician and inventor Paul Tutmarc from Seattle, Washington, developed the first electric string bass in its modern form, a fretted instrument designed to be held and played horizontally. Named an electronic bass fiddle it proved to be very popular, and because its manner of playing was more similar to that of a guitar, it meant that it was easier to pick up by guitarists than a fiddle would have been for them. Although Tutmarc's fiddle marked the dawn of the electric bass guitar, it took about twenty years for the idea to take hold, and be developed by Leo Fender before it became a popular instrument.
There are two types of acoustic guitar: steel-string and classical. Classical guitars have a wider neck and use nylon strings. Steel-strings have a metallic sound that is a distinctive component of a wide range of popular music styles. Both types of guitar can be played using a plectrum (pick) or finger-style. The steel-string acoustic is sometimes referred to as a flat top.