Russian 7-string gypsy guitar

Barengero

Hi folks,

i got my hand on a russian 7-string guitar. Now I am looking for teaching materials and sheet music for the russian seven-string gypsy guitar. I would like to play in the style of Sergej Orekhov, Nikolai Volshaninov, A. Kolpakov and so on.

sound samples here:

http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B004X69 ... 423&sr=1-1

Any help is appreciated!

Best,

Barengero

Lango-Django

I've never heard of this, sounds cool! What is the tuning?

Barengero

Hi, the tuning is

D, G, B, D,g, b, d.

So it is an open G tuning. Yul Brynner played this type of guitar as well - check his incredible LP "The Gypsy and I" , when he played together with Aliosha Dimitrievitch:

http://www.djangostation.com/Le-Tzigane-et-moi,369.html

Aliosha also plays a 7-string.

Best regards,

Barengero

scot

I played with Vadim Kolpakov for several years, I have charts for many of his uncle's (Alexandre Kolpakov) arrangements. PM me, I'll help you out with this. Great music!

Archtop Eddy

Here's a great clip of Yul Brynner playing Two Guitars. Speaking of guitars, check out his guitar... AE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns-IP_Y8_3U

redblues

I'll tell my Yul Brynner story here.

Up against McQueen in the Magnificent Seven, McQueen of the Method school is constantly shifting and moving in the background, picking up something off a table, chewing on something, shifting foot to foot. Brynner notices and pulls McQueen aside, says to him, If you keep doing that every time I speak, I'm gonna take off my hat.

Shifting from a black hat to a shiny bald head, in terms of lighting a film set, means no matter what you do in the background nobody's going to notice, light will be constantly focused on the head.
McQueen dropped his method antics.


Best of luck with the 7 string Barengero

Lango-Django

OK, well, if we're telling actor stories, I've got one too.

Walter Matthau is acting in some now-forgotten movie being directed by Bob Fosse, and the two of them have an argument about how the next scene will be played which finally escalates into a screaming confrontation.

Matthau angrily storms off to his dressing room, vowing at the top of his lungs that he's going to quit this @#$%&* movie.

The next morning when they show up for work, Matthau approaches Fosse and says, "OK, look, Bob, we'll do it your way--- just one condition."

Fosse: "What's that?"

Matthau: "Just give me my balls back."

Fosse thinks for a minute... then yells--- "PROPS!"

redblues

Cool story!
Don't remember Matthau in a Fosse movie, but would pay cash on the barrel head to hear old Walt sing. Favourite Walter Matthau movie would be Kotch, the only movie Jack Lemmon ever directed, really beautiful film.
Watched Charley Varrick a few days ago http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069865/ didn't know beforehand, it's the movie where Tarantino ripped the "pair of pliers and a blowtorch" line from. Well worth a look

(sorry for the thread hijack)