Topic: Enrike Solinís

[Nichi]

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http://www.solinis.com/?page_id=17

[Nichi]

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[Michael]

I don't know that instrument - lute of some kind I suppose, but unlike any lute I've ever seen. Five pairs of strings instead of six like a guitar, and for the top he has left the pair string off. He certainly plays very nicely, and I like the rhythm.

[Nichi]

It's a Baroque Guitar.
The one he is playing sure is an attractive thing - such intricate work in the center there.

Wiki:
The Baroque guitar (c. 1600–1750) is a string instrument with five courses of gut strings and moveable gut frets. The first (highest pitched) course was often a single string.

History

The Baroque guitar replaced the Renaissance lute as the most common instrument found in the home. The earliest attestation of a five-stringed guitar comes from the mid-sixteenth-century Spanish book Declaracion de Instrumentos Musicales by Juan Bermudo, published in 1555. The first treatise published for the Baroque guitar was Guitarra Espanola de cinco ordenes (The Five-course Spanish Guitar), c. 1590, by Juan Carlos Amat. The baroque guitar in contemporary ensembles took on the role of a basso continuo instrument and players would be expected to improvise a chordal accompaniment with another basso continuo instrument playing the bass line. Intimately tied to the development of the Baroque guitar is the alfabeto system of notation.

Tuning

Three different ways of tuning the guitar are well documented in seventeenth-century sources as set out in the following table. This includes the names of composers who are associated with each method. Very few sources clearly indicate that one method of stringing rather than another should be used and it may have been up to the player to decide what was appropriate.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baroque_guitar

[Nichi]

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Maria José Pérez, voz
Enrike Solinis, guitarra