Talk:Baroque guitar

Removed hatnote
I've removed the hatnote pointing to ten string guitar. It had no obvious purpose and was added basically to promote the modern ten-string guitar during a now-resolved edit war.

I'm not even sure that the link in see also should stay, but it does no great harm, while the hatnote looked downright puzzling. Andrewa (talk) 15:35, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

Unpublished Information about Stradivari Guitars
On Friday, 1 May 2020, I (Jon E. Ahlquist, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida) sent a query about Stradivari guitars to Ms. Arian Sheets, Curator of Stringed Instruments at the National Music Museum at The University of South Dakota. I cannot cite her email reply from Saturday, 2 May 2020, in the reference list for the Wikipedia baroque guitar article because it is not a published reference, but I believe it is important enough that it needs to be recorded here.

[Beginning of reply from Ms. Arian Sheets]

Indeed, the Sabionari Stradivari guitar is the only playable one. Unfortunately, at some point, someone inlaid decorative frets into the original neck of our Stradivari guitar, and they do not correspond to the scale length of the strings - the guitar originally would have had tied-on gut frets. So without drastic intervention to remove these false frets and patch the neck and top of the guitar, our Stradivari is not playable.

There are indeed five surviving Stradivari guitars, ours, the Sabionari, the one in the Hill Collection at the Ashmolean, and two additional guitars in private collections.

Best, Arian

Arian Sheets 

Curator of Stringed Instruments

National Music Museum

The University of South Dakota

414 East Clark Street

Vermillion, SD 57069

web http://www.nmmusd.org

[End of reply from Ms. Arian Sheets] — Preceding unsigned comment added by JonEAhlquist (talk • contribs) 19:43, 3 May 2020 (UTC)

Backwards charts
Virtually every other source for stringed instrument tunings -- including other Wikipedia pages -- give the tunings from left to right = low to high. The tunings given in this article are reversed -- right to left = low to high. This really should be made consistent with other sources. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.95.43.253 (talk) 22:16, 21 April 2022 (UTC)