Baden Polka

Comment by Carl Anderton on July 22, 2012 at 9:10pm

Mighty tricky stuff there.  And long!  You're doing some great work, Tim.

Comment by Al Smitley on July 23, 2012 at 3:32am

That's great!  I wish I could play a refined-sounding fiddle/violin.  I will work on it but have always failed to get anywhere near it in past tries.  I have a couple versions of Baden Baden Polka in D and G (same tune).  One from Howe's Diamond School for the Violin (date unknown) and one in Home Circle Collection of Piano-Forte Music (1859).  I don't think you're playing it in D, however.  Is it written in D in Howe's Instructor for the Guitar?

Comment by Matthew Mickletz on July 23, 2012 at 7:00am

Beautiful Tim!  It's interesting what I don't hear when a period guitar is played: that sound you get when your fingers travel over/down metal strings.  I don't know how to describe it, but it's noise that can't seem to happen with gut or Nylgut strings (not being wound) :) 

Comment by Tim Twiss on July 23, 2012 at 7:02am

Thanks. It is written in Concert A.

Comment by Al Smitley on July 23, 2012 at 7:26am

Found it in the Levy Collection in Bb.  How did 19th C guitars, violins, and piano-fortes ever play together!?

Comment by Tim Twiss on July 23, 2012 at 8:49pm

These are nylgut.

Comment by Matthew Mickletz on July 24, 2012 at 8:20am

That's what I thought you mentioned in a seperate post pertaining to your guitar, Tim.  So I'm not goin nuts. Good. ;)

Comment by Tim Twiss on July 24, 2012 at 8:25am

They feel good, and I feel it was a better choice than nylon.

Comment by Tim Twiss on July 24, 2012 at 8:42am

Ideally, you lift your fingers when shifting...no noise that way.

Comment by Matthew Mickletz on July 24, 2012 at 12:04pm

I need to learn to stay out of guitar world and in banjo world.

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