source file: mills3.txt Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 16:37:20 +0100 Subject: What do you play ? From: Eduardo Sabat The only microtonal instrument I play is Dinarra (read deenarha). First of all I must congratulate to John Starrett by his exelent idea to make the poll of the musical microtonal instruments. Luthier Germano Banchetti was the fist to refret a guitar into dinarra. In those times (70=B4s) he lived in Montevideo, and in the 80=B4s he back to= his land Arezzo, Italy. He told me he had a brother of him working as luthier in the New York (USA) area.=20 Germano refreted three acoustic guitars. With the second one I played in Hawaii in Nov. 1978. To day (1998) he must be a man of about 70.=20 --------------------- Luthier Ariel Ameijenda refreted two acoustic and two electric (Washburn brand) guitars. Also he made ENTIRE four acoustic Dinarras. The soundboard of one of them was made of Canadian (pink) Pine and the three others of Alerce Pine (from the south of Argentina).=20 In this moment there are some pupils that play dinarra better than me. ---------------------- =20 Eduardo =20 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Eduardo Sabat-Garibaldi e-mail : esabat@adinet.com.uy Home: Simon Bolivar 1260 Office FAX-PHONE : 598 2 900-0353 11300 Montevideo Home Phone : 598 2 708-0952 =20 Uruguay