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Microtones with Tolgahan Cogulu

Posted on July 3, 2013 by Gerald

Tolga has been around for some time now, with a guitar with movable fretlets in channels under the strings to produce 9th tones and more. He gave a mindbending lecture at the GFA and also played some Ba?lama music as well as examples by contemporary composers.

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Posted in Guitar, Media, Society, Thoughts, Video | Tagged Baglama, Berta Rojas, frets, Guitar, Helen Sanderson, microtones

Official GFA blog+

Posted on June 28, 2013 by Gerald

GFA Convention blog

Facebook pics

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Posted in Guitar, Media, Music, Photos, Society | Tagged Facebook, GFA

FGS

Posted on June 24, 2013 by Gerald

JFCAHBBH!? Another acronym?

More guitarists playing together – in this case, 50 of them, from different guitar societies across the UK. The Federation of Guitar Societies

I had the privilege of meeting these dedicated souls,

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Posted in Guitar, Media, Music, Society, Thoughts | Tagged Alison Bendy, Blue Nose, Eric Hill, Federation of Guitar Societies, Guitar ensemble, Guitar societies, Nova Scotia, Nuttall, Oxford, Rule

BYGO

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Gerald

Not some fancy way of saying to bring your own drink on a party invitation, but this is the Berkshire Youth Guitar Orchestra, whose genial conductor, Steve Christmas, invited me to their Wigmore Hall recital in London today.

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Posted in Guitar, Music, Society, Thoughts | Tagged ensemble, group, Guitar, Guitar ensemble, team, youth

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