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	Playing Guitar Russian Style
		Players who wish to get the real Russian sound but are not about to search for a new instrument or modify an existing one can get by very well using the Russian tuning on their six string.
		The seven string guitar made itself known in Russia in the 19th century thanks to Andrei Sychra, of Czech ancestry, who had written over a thousand pieces of music for the instrument (he is also considered by some to be the inventor of the seven string).
		Russian chord shapes often call for the use of the thumb, which is sometimes shifted from string to string and fret to fret when doing an 'alternating bass'.
	www.stseraphimschurch.org /we-magazine/statyi2005/guitarrussianstyle.html (3736 words)

	Merida lecture, The Russian Seven String Guitar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Russian composers, from Ivan Khandoshkin and Evstignei Fomin in the eighteenth century, up to and including Russian composers active during the Soviet era and even today, have capitalized on the richness and emotional intensity of Russian folk music.
		Russian artists began to seek their own roots and to look for a national identity based on their own heritage.
		His impact on Russian society was decisive, and the majority of Russian guitarists abandoned their native instrument and its repertoire and switched over to the Spanish guitar and the Segovia repertoire.
	www.orphee.com /rmcg/merida.htm (1741 words)

	A Comparison of New Guitar Methods: Introduction: Major 3rds Tuning
		Major Thirds Tuning on a seven-string has at least one coincidental precursor: The Russian guitar was a seven-string tuned (low to high): D G B D G B D. Just raising the Ds a semitone would have yielded the Major Thirds Tuning (albeit dropped a half-step from usual).
		The Russian guitar appeared in the late eighteenth century and had a "golden age" from 1800-1850.
		guitar in the now-Standard Tuning, was written to accommodate that tuning, which accommodation it requires to a degree owing to its particular idiosyncrasies (e.g.
	lilytears.com /arts/music/guitar/methods/intro/3rds.htm (504 words)

	Russian guitar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Russian guitar, a seven-string acoustic guitar tuned to the Open G tuning, arrived in the beginning of the 19th century in Russia, most probably as a development of the kobza and the baroque lute.
		The Russian guitar gained significant popularity in the latter half of the 19th century with the increasing popularity of guitar oriented "city romance" songs.
		The Russian guitar remained the standard for popular musicians until the 1960's, with the emergence of a strong underground interest in jazz and Western rock groups such as the Beatles and Elvis Presley.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Russian_guitar (1139 words)

	Guitar history in Russia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Guitar is the stringed instrument played by plucking of the lute family.
		At the same time in Petersburg are issued "Etudes" and "Four sonatas for the piano and the six-stringed guitar" of P. Galiany, a well-known performer and pedagogue, "New magazine for the six-stringed guitar" of A. Beresovskiy, "Concert for the six-stringed guitar with the orchester" of Ashanin (1815).
		For some decades the guitar is at the second plan and only to the end of the XIX-th century it begins again to win the sympathies and the recognition of the general public.
	www.lute.ru /guitar/rusguitar_eng.htm (474 words)

	Classical Guitar Illustrated History
		To solve these problems, the four-string guitar was enlarged and given six double strings, turned in the same manner as the present six-string guitar with the exception of the third string, turned a half tone lower.
		Since the tuning of the four-string guitar was the same as that used on the first four strings of the modern guitar, the low A string was the later addition.
		Although the guitar was less popular in Spain than in Italy and was not as popular as the vihuela was in the previous century, some important works were established and a number of fine guitarists became known in that country.
	www.classicalguitarmidi.com /history/guitar_history.html (10719 words)

	7-string, 8-string, 9-string & 10-string Guitars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		There was tremendous experimentation with guitar design in the 19th century as evidenced by the wide array of body shapes, designs, and decorations, as well as the number of strings.
		In addition, the Russian 7-string guitar in the 1820's and possibly earlier was fretted across all 7 strings, as is evident by examining the scores.
		On an 8-string guitar, the 6th string is now the 3rd string from the top, which takes away the top-side point of reference; the 6th string point of reference then becomes relative to the thumb's current location.
	sedna.lunarpages.com /~early2/erg/erg/multibass.htm (3645 words)

	Russian Gypsy Guitar Violin Duo (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Russian Gypsy singer and guitarist Sergei Pobedinski and virtuoso violinist Valeriy Zhmud are members of this famous Russian Gypsy Guitar Violin Duo based in New Yorl City, New York.
		New York based Russian Gypsy Guitar Violin Duo with violin player Valeriy Zhmud and singer Sergei Pobedinski will be appreciated by those who like Russian, Gypsy and Jewish music or by those who simply want an evening of romance.
		Sergei Pobedinski (guitar, vocals) is a native of Pyatigorsk, Russia.
	www.barynya.com /gr.htm (343 words)

	The Guitar of the Czars
		By studying the surviving photos of Russian guitarists of the last century, re-published in the volume Guitar in Russia and USSR (see photo), we see that the guitar with 7 strings on the neck and 4 strings outside of the neck was very popular.
		His interest in the guitar would have been known to Russian guitarists of his epoch: it is not by chance that the patriarch of the seven-string guitar, the Lithuanian Andrei Sychra, transcribed in full for two guitars two of Glinka's greatest operas: A life for the Czar and Ruslan i Ludmila.
		These events introduced many young Russian "enfant prodige" of the guitar to the public; the rebirth of interest in the guitar in Russia was possible, thanks to their enthusiasm.
	www.seicorde.it /Articles/guitczar.htm (3387 words)

	TALISMAN: Available Programs
		Combining their familiarity with Russian language and culture and their acknowledged expertise in historically-informed performance, the artists bring this exquisite repertoire to the modern listener in a compelling and entertaining format.
		Dubbed ëthe Russian Catalanií by her contemporaries, she trained in the Italian bel canto tradition and it is said that the famous Italian diva Catalani was moved to tears when she heard Steshkaís interpretation of Russian songs.
		The Bolsheviks insisted on associating the Russian seven-string guitar and its music either with the idle classes of the bourgeois past or with their blood enemies, the White Army officers.
	www.talismanmusic.org /programs.html (1318 words)

	JunkGuitars.com
		Traditionally, these guitars were hung from a nail or hook by a fancy ribbon and bow, which also served as decoration and sometimes a strap.
		In the West, where seven-string guitars are far less common, a twelve-string instrument is often adapted for this kind of playing, with the first ten strings doubled up into five courses of two and the two lowest bass strings each treated as a single, separate course.
		The vast majority of such guitars were not exact copies, especially considering the variations in pickups and hardware and the fact that each instrument was entirely hand-made with whatever parts the luthier had managed to obtain.
	www.junkguitars.com /stories/vintage_guitars_rus.html (8962 words)

	Classical Guitar Alive! Play Lists (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		His "Souvenir of Russia" for 2 guitars is a set of variations based on music that he heard during his visit.
		Although not Russian himself, composer/performer Sergio Assad based his "Fantasy on Dark Eyes" for violin and guitar duo on a Russian gypsy folk song.
		Russian guitarist/scholar Oleg Timofeyev discusses some of his discoveries while doing research on the vast repertory of the Russian 7-string guitar music of the 19th Century.
	www.guitaralive.org /playlist_05_10_19.html (351 words)

	Russian culture navigator
		Guitar player, conductor and composer Ivanov-Kramskoy was one of the fathers of the Soviet performing schools and one of the first musicians to be heard on just-started-to-broadcast radio.
		He met with foreign guitar players, on tour in Russia, such as Andres Segovia of Spain, Louisa Valker of Austria, Maria Louise Anido of Argentine, Zigfrid Berend of Germany, the French duet of Ida Presti and Alexander Lagoya and Ilsa and Nicholas Alfonso of Belgium.
		After he became the first performing guitar player who was steadily struggling in favor of reviving the classic guitar and resume guitar courses that were suspended in the mid-1930s.
	www.vor.ru /culture/cultarch233_eng.html (1471 words)

	Russian corporate entertainment: dancers, singers, musicians, ensembles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Russian folk singer Aleksandr Menshikov, New Jersey, USA was born in small Russian town of Bugulma (Now republic of Tatarstan) where during Russian civil war famous Czech writer Jaroslav Hasek was appointed by a communist party as a town's political commissar.
		Russian singer Elena Harris is cafe\nightclub performer and arranger for radio and television jingles, master of ceremonies and management of weddings and banquets.
		Russian folk dancer and singer Valentina Kvasova, New York, USA was born in Russia, in the city of Rostov-na-Donu, on August 25, 1976.
	smirnov.org /index.htm (4037 words)

	Alternate tunings for guitar. Violin, E major, Russian.
		For example, the G major, or "Russian tuning" (D G d g b d') has 3 strings lowered for a total of -6 half steps.
		When this music is transcribed for our 6-string guitar, it is generally transposed up one step (for example, from D to E.) A reason for doing this is that the Russian guitarists always transposed Western European 6-string guitar music down a step for their instrument.
		Could we get a more authentic and natural transcription by leaving the Russian guitar music at its original pitch and tuning strings 1 and 6 down to D? By doing that we have 5 of the Russian guitar's open strings - our string 5 (A) being the odd man out.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/7049/scord.htm (1202 words)

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		The lucky contest winner will receive an Epiphone Dot electric guitar from Sick Puppies.
		Today we have a couple good news for you: the launch of Ultimate-Guitar.tv and the offical announcement of UG 7.0!
	www.ultimate-guitar.com (250 words)

	Andrey Osipovich Sikhra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		A. Sikhra was born 1773 in Vilno (the modern Vilnius) in the family of a music teacher.
		Then he was keen on the seven-stringed guitar and devoted to it his whole life.
		Sikhra wrote for the guitar pieces and exsercitions; 1802 he began to issue in Moscow "Magazine for the seven-stringed guitar".
	www.lute.ru /guitar/Sichra_eng.htm (278 words)

	CD Baby: ARSEN SHOMAKHOV & RAGTIME: Troublemaker
		Russian guitar player, singer and songwriter Arsen Shomakhov formed the blues band Ragtime (after the E.L. Doctorow novel) in 1991, and over the last 3 years they have become one of the leading acts on the Russian blues scene.
		The band is led by singer/songwriter ARSEN SHOMAKHOV on guitar and vocals and the rest of the band consists of ASLAN ZHANTUYEV on bass, SULTANBEK "BEK" MAMYSHEV on drums and as a guest on several tracks, GRIGORY MARTIROSYAN on tenor sax.
		The latter is used as a framework to showcase sizzling guitar.
	www.cdbaby.com /cd/shomakhov (2029 words)

	Gilardino, Ikonostas, Russian Guitar
		Pavel Florenskij was a Russian theologist, scientist, philosopher and writer.
		I asked their advice and help on a project of mine, writing a piece — if not for the 7 string Russian guitar — at least for the normal six string guitar, tuned in a way that approached the Russian guitar tuning.
		Important parts of his compositional output are the collection of the sixty Studi di virtuosità e di trascendenza, two Sonatas, the Variazioni sulla Follia, the Variazioni sulla Fortuna, the Musica per l’angelo della Melancholia Suite, all for guitar solo and four Concertos for guitar and various chamber ensembles.
	www.orphee.com /solos/ikonostas.html (378 words)

	Internationally recognized russian guitar virtuoso Alexander Liapin performs in Pittsburgh @ Top40-Charts.com - 40 Top ...
		PITTSBURGH, PA. (A. Liapin website) - Alexander Liapin, "The Guitar" of the Russian and European rock music will perform for the first time in Pittsburgh on July 2nd, 2004.
		Alexander is one of the best known internationally Russian rock musicians.
		His name is synonymous with the various applications of his guitar- rhythm, solo, leader, sound source for the synthesizer experiments.
	top40-charts.com /news.php?nid=7766 (331 words)

	Amazon.ca: V2 Golden Age O/T Russian Gtr: Music: Vladimir Ovchinnikov,Dmitri Kushenov-Dmitrievsky,Andrei Osipovich ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		This is a scholar who has done groundbreaking work in reconstructing the social context of this music, which was played by talented Russian aristocrats, among others, in the late 18th and 19th centuries.
		Timofeyev, who holds a PhD in musicology (his dissertation is on the 19th century Russian guitar repertoire) brings both erudition and great sensitivity to the music that he has rediscovered.
		Lovers of guitar music who have had their fill of Giuliani, Sor, Villa Lobos, etc., will find Timofeyev's recordings a refreshing change.
	www.amazon.ca /V2-Golden-Age-Russian-Gtr/dp/B00004STPX (370 words)

	Classical Guitar Forum :: View topic - X 2006-05-26/31 Russian Guitar Seminar, Iowa City (USA)
		This is a preliminary inquiry to help us gauge potential interest in a workshop on the Russian Guitar (its history, technique, and repertoire), which we are planning to hold in Iowa City, IA, May 26-31.
		The Russian seven-string guitar is a unique instrument, popular in Russia since the mid-1790s and tuned DGBdgbd’.
		The only Russian-guitar duo outside of Russia, THE CZARS GUITARS will present their programs “Tribute to Glinka” and “East Meets West.” In addition, IARGUS 2006 will be the unique opportunity to hear (or to participate in) rare ensemble music, involving Russian guitars of several sizes.
	www.delcamp.net /forum/en/viewtopic.php?t=3483 (1174 words)

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		The Russian seven-string guitar is a unique instrument, popular in Russia since the mid-1790s and tuned DGBdgbd’.
		But very few people realize the magnitude and superb quality of the Russian seven-string guitar heritage, or are aware of composers such as Sychra, Vysotsky, Aksionov, Sarenko, Morkov, Vetrov, Pavlov-Azancheev, Agibalov, and many others.
		Your expenses will be: travel to and from Iowa City; lodging (we are working to arrange special reduced rates at local hotels for IARGUS 2006 participants); meals; a $350 ($250 for students) tuition fee.
	www.russianguitar.net /IARGUS-inquiry.doc (482 words)

	Sergei Rudnev - guitarist composer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		By this time, having mastered the essentials of guitar play on his own, and due to the lack of guitar class at the College, he started taking private lessons from the Moscow professional guitarists V.Slavin and P.Panin.
		The meeting made him modify his attitude to guitar techniques, as well as alter the focus of activities.
		This work includes his know-how of the Russian guitar technique and pieces of Russian guitarists that have never been publishing before.
	www.ebookcafe.it /Pocci/rudnev.htm (640 words)

	Russian Guitar Hero Fights Terrorism With Music - Elites TV - Your Elite News Source
		To promote the album's message, Tsygankov and his band are touring the Middle East, performing at anti-terrorism rallies in war zones and geopolitical hot spots.
		Layering Russian folk motifs with virtuosic rock guitar and thought-provoking lyrics, Anton Tsygankov's music stands out as the sound of rock to come.
		Tsygankov co-produced the album with Roman Zaslavsky, a veteran of the Russian music scene who has worked with numerous award-winning artists such as t.A.T.u.
	www.elitestv.com /pub/2006/Aug/EEN44f46881d9314.html (294 words)

	Articles about guitar production and history (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Electric guitars and basses from Poland at “Lordbizarre’s electric guitar and amp museum“ Leuven, Belgium, Europe.
		Our attempt to reconstruct the history of electric guitar production in Czechoslovakia.
		Cheesy Guitars owns no copyright on pictures and texts published on this site.
	www.meatexz.com /cheesyguitars/articles.html (161 words)

	Aquariums HQ - Internationally Recognized Russian Guitar V...
		Aquariums HQ - Internationally Recognized Russian Guitar V...
		Internationally Recognized Russian Guitar Virtuoso Performs in Pittsburgh, PA.
		Pittsburgh, PA June 29, 2004 -- Alexander Liapin, "The Guitar" of the Russian and European rock music will perform for the first time in Pittsburgh on July 2nd, 2004.
	www.aquariums-hq.com /newsletters/issue8.html (424 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The Center for Russian and East-European Studies, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Kansas and the Kansas City Guitar Society join forces to bring a very special concert of solo music for the Russian guitar by the renowned musicologist, guitarist, and lutenist, Dr.
		Timofeyev (Grinnell College, Iowa) is the premiere exponent in the discovery, promotion, interpretation, and authentic performance of the repertoire for the 19th- and 20th-century Russian seven-string guitar.
		As a recording artist, Dr. Timofeyev debuted in 1999 with a solo lute album (The Wandering Lutenist, Centaur 2409) and the groundbreaking The Golden Age of the Russian Guitar (DOR 93170).
	www2.ku.edu /~slavic/oleg-ku.htm (281 words)

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