User talk:Viktor van Niekerk

The information on Yepes and his guitar has been moved to its own article: Modern/Yepes Ten-String Guitar; where all the information can go - it's looking pretty good.

The original 10-string guitar (->[1]) page was getting unbalanced with too much info on Yepes! As a seperate concept, it should have its own seperate page (it has enough info, to justify its own page): Modern/Yepes Ten-String Guitar

Bringing your "10 string Yepes tuning" huge paragraph into the general classical guitar (->[2]) page is not suitable.

• There is a unbalance because other guitars are not presented in the big way, in which your presenting your "issue" (the page has a link to Multi-string classical guitar anyway)
• The "10 string guitar" as you want to push it, is *not without criticism*; see below:

Details can be read on the Delcamp forum: google cache: [3], [4], original requires a (free) Delcamp account: [5], [6]

On that forum ten-string guitar player "Jouni Stenroos" (sorry Jouni - I respect you and hope you don't mind too much that I'm mentioning you here), has said about "your version of the Ten-string guitar article" (->[7]): "WIkipedia article is only promoting the Yepes modern tuning. Facts are straight, but the importance of the balanced resonances is a personal opinion of the writer. Many 10-string players prefer more bass range over the resonances."

"The article is disputed, and with a good reason."

Other guitarists such as Perf De Castro (and others!) use different tunings.

I believe that the whole resonance thing as you are explaining it is overrated and blurred anyway (and I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks that!):

My personal opinion is that, when playing, I don't want "chromatic resonance" (as you call it)! I want appropriate resonance, which I get from the normal 6-string classical guitar (This is why most pieces are in the appropriate keys, A, E, etc.). When playing fast scales, it not easy to stop additional bass strings. (And when playing the 10-string, other tunings are just as valid as the one the you are propagating.)

Here is another thought for you (4th string as a weak link in you "10-string theory"): When fretting the 4th string at a tone that is neither D nor G; where then is your bass resonator for D? You'll have to resort to Major Thirds; and don't forget the discrepancy between the well-tempered and just-tempered thirds.

I also don't appreciate you arguments, because by using more strings still (11 strings, 13 STRINGS, ...) I can get much better "chromatic resonance" (as you call it), then with only 10 strings. By just 1 extra string (i.e. 11 strings) I could e.g. have the following bass configuration: C, A#, G#, F#, D or C, A#, G, G#, F# or better: C#, B, G, F, D# and other possibilities (this assumes A as 5th and E as 6th string). But why stop there: get a 13 string guitar or a 15 string guitar.

Archeoix (talk)