Terje Rypdal/microtones

I've been going through my collection of Guitar Player mags (starting in 1970) looking for lessons for my students, and many of the articles are real interesting. In the May 1977 issue, Terje Rypdal, a longtime favorite of mine, mentions that he had a fretless guitar, but "It doesn't sound too good, though, it was just for experimentation..." and "I also have a quartertone guitar which I tried but found it's better to just bend to get microtones." And then "There is a classical composer in Norway named Bjorn Fongaard who has a lot of microtone ideas, and he uses the guitar a lot." Anybody know of Fongaard?
And, I also found a transcription of a Lou Harrison piece (Round) by Ben Verdery from Dec 1988, and he mentions that the fingerings are by John Schneider, and he goes on to discuss how the tune was originally written for a JI guitar with interchangeable fretboards by Tom Stone. See you...HHH
microstick.net

hello Neil !thanks for this bit .if anyone asked me something
like, "if you could be any other guitarist, who would it be?" ,there
are many days i'd pick Rypdal .It's not that we play very much
alike ,or that i aspire to play like he does,it's just that there
are very few guitarist who consistently give me goosebumps, and he's
no.1 on that list ,love him.

http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Neil Haverstick" <microstick@m...>
wrote:
>
> I've been going through my collection of Guitar Player mags
(starting in
> 1970) looking for lessons for my students, and many of the
articles are
> real interesting. In the May 1977 issue, Terje Rypdal, a longtime
favorite
> of mine, mentions that he had a fretless guitar, but "It doesn't
sound too
> good, though, it was just for experimentation..." and "I also
have a
> quartertone guitar which I tried but found it's better to just
bend to get
> microtones." And then "There is a classical composer in Norway
named Bjorn
> Fongaard who has a lot of microtone ideas, and he uses the guitar
a lot."
> Anybody know of Fongaard?
> And, I also found a transcription of a Lou Harrison piece
(Round) by Ben
> Verdery from Dec 1988, and he mentions that the fingerings are by
John
> Schneider, and he goes on to discuss how the tune was originally
written for
> a JI guitar with interchangeable fretboards by Tom Stone. See
you...HHH
> microstick.net
>

http://www.jeffgower.com/rypdal/artgp.html

--- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "daniel_anthony_stearns"
<daniel_anthony_stearns@y...> wrote:
>
> hello Neil !thanks for this bit .if anyone asked me something
> like, "if you could be any other guitarist, who would it
be?" ,there
> are many days i'd pick Rypdal .It's not that we play very much
> alike ,or that i aspire to play like he does,it's just that there
> are very few guitarist who consistently give me goosebumps, and
he's
> no.1 on that list ,love him.
>
> http://zebox.com/daniel_anthony_stearns/
>
>
> --- In tuning@yahoogroups.com, "Neil Haverstick" <microstick@m...>
> wrote:
> >
> > I've been going through my collection of Guitar Player mags
> (starting in
> > 1970) looking for lessons for my students, and many of the
> articles are
> > real interesting. In the May 1977 issue, Terje Rypdal, a
longtime
> favorite
> > of mine, mentions that he had a fretless guitar, but "It doesn't
> sound too
> > good, though, it was just for experimentation..." and "I also
> have a
> > quartertone guitar which I tried but found it's better to just
> bend to get
> > microtones." And then "There is a classical composer in Norway
> named Bjorn
> > Fongaard who has a lot of microtone ideas, and he uses the
guitar
> a lot."
> > Anybody know of Fongaard?
> > And, I also found a transcription of a Lou Harrison piece
> (Round) by Ben
> > Verdery from Dec 1988, and he mentions that the fingerings are
by
> John
> > Schneider, and he goes on to discuss how the tune was originally
> written for
> > a JI guitar with interchangeable fretboards by Tom Stone. See
> you...HHH
> > microstick.net
> >
>