Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Stringed Instruments

Member introductions

• I'll try to keep the writing accurate, clear (and simple.) I'm more into the hands-on aspects of keeping a fiddle working, with enough playing skill to mostly stay out of trouble. Only limited access to (paper) references, even more limited time to chase citations, but will add those as I find them. I'll be interested to see what direction folks want to go with this project. __Just plain Bill (talk) 23:26, 9 January 2009 (UTC)

• Clear, accurate and simple I will second. I play electric and acoustic 12-string and mandolin, and dabble in anything with frets and also fretless ABG. And just learned how to tune a 'cello for a little girl who plays it at my church (and very well... her playing not my tuning, that is). Andrewa (talk) 19:03, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

I play a cello so im in. Carabera (talk) 21:52, 5 April 2009 (UTC)

Some things to think about

Wikiproject structure etc

I guess we should be a subproject of Wikipedia:WikiProject Music, and add ourselves to the instruments section of Template:WikiProject Music/Related WikiProjects and the list at Wikipedia:WikiProject Council/Directory/Culture/Music#Instruments. Andrewa (talk) 20:09, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Tunings

• Stringed instrument tunings still needs work - there was a great spurt of activity over a year ago, then nothing.
• MOS:TUNINGS needs peer review - it's just my work so far.
• See also my external project The Online Encyclopedia of Tunings.

Note particularly:

• While I've adopted Helmholtz Notation at TOEOT my feeling is that Wikipedia should make the choice of Helmholtz or Scientific Pitch Notation optional, similarly to WP:ENGVAR.
  • Actually TOEOT uses what I've called modified Helmholtz notation, which also shows up in Wikipedia quite independently of me from time to time.
  • The dialect of Scientific Pitch Notation we tend to use isn't strict either, most people for example just say A4 not A₄.
• The ordering and numbering of strings and courses is problematical, see
  • http://tunings.pbwiki.com/how-should-we-number-the-strings .
  • http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/howshouldwenumbethestrings/ .

Comments welcome, here, on other talk pages, or at TOEOT or its related Yahoo! groups of course. Andrewa (talk) 20:09, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

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Bruno Giuranna, a violinist, is an unreferenced living person (BLP), so it will probably be deleted if it is not referenced. I have no interest in this subject. Could someone please reference it? Thank you.

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