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Thank you, very much. It was unfamiliar a bit to me posting and blogging, the web surface have played a trick on me, and that's why I sent a short bio like this. The documentation is NOT that "tabu" -address, of course.
If you interested in the DiY-way of the CBG-making, the full link is this:
http://www.tabulatura.hu/blasius/cbg/index.htm
As I mentioned, this is commented in Hungarian, but the pictures are clear, I mean. Or should I translate it?
We in Eastern Europe are too far from the Delta, far from the real feeling, the cultural basis of the afro-american music.
Hence, the European people generally think about the "original" blues, as something which is played by ZZ Top, perhaps BB King, and the others, who made the blues popular and "more consumable" - of course I don' t state this about every blues fan, but when I often show or play music from the original Delta, the people, claiming themselves as blues fans say "well, very odd, but this is not so cool, I prefer the" _real_ blues" - or else words they think so the delta blues is... boring, without drums, bass, fuzz and even Hammond...
I work for traditions as early music player. This tradition is important too. When we play on stage, we often deliver so called "instrument-expositioning" concerts. (I'm sorry, it may be "hunglish", I've learned the language in the school) This means that, we speak about instruments; my corner is the plucked ones, lutes, lyres, guitars, vihuelas, showing them, playing on them, talk about their history, etc. I can imagine stages, where the folk instruments and the historical ones meet this special guitar, because, although the CBG is not a medieval instrument, but there are a lot ot similar parameters amongst them.
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Comment by Balasch on April 13, 2010 at 7:32am: Hi, Henry,
and thanks for your comment. Of course, Africa is the starting point, not only in the blues, but - as I know - it was the cradle of the mankind, too. But sure enough of the blues. By the way, have you ever seen genuine African string instruments - with or without bow, what is made of gas can or similar material? Not a cigar box guitar, but 'gas can guitar', or something like this. Awesome!:-)
Bach. Well, even Scott Joplin - my most likeable American composer - was a serious Bach-pupil - of course not in the real meaning, but as a musician and composer he was a Bach enthusiast, and, listening his rags, this will lestenable. But I can enhance it: if I can remember well, the Magnificat you can find an almost classical 'rag tune'. You can listen it here: http://icking-music-archive.org/scores/bach/bwv243/esuri.mid Hm... Can you imagine this tune on a detuned piano, or a roll piano? I converted this tune to a detuned rag, and Debussy with his Little Negro is the second in the row:-)

Bye, and stay tuned!:-)

Blsch

Comment by HENRY LOWMAN on April 9, 2010 at 3:10pm: Good day to you from across the Atlantic! Here is my take on it, for what it's worth. The Blues can be traced back to Africa, and over time has evolved into what we hear today. The music of today is a collective history that has evolved over millennia. Look, for example, at the lute used in ancient Egypt. This is what makes OUR time so special, in that we have so much history to look back on, civilizations and cultures that developed over time, and the art that developed with them. It amazes me to no end how much is taken for granted in the information age, where one has instant access to looking up these things. Our whole collective experience has been an evolutionary process. Music has evolved from the ancients through the Renaissance to Classicism to Romanticism to Modernism in all its various forms. Jazz artists such as Herbie Hancock and Chic Corea look back to Johann Sebastian Bach for inspiration. Dvorak and Bartok used indigenous folk musics as an inspiration and blueprint for their work. The problem boils down to many listeners being unaware or, worse, uninterested in history. You have delved into historical instruments and have seen the progression to, say, the modern guitar. I was fascinated in finding out that the guitar used to play second fiddle to the lute until, I believe, the period around the time of Franz Josef Haydn! LOL! Well, sorry to pontificate so much. CHEERS!