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SUMMARY:The Quest to Tune the Guitar Bridge\, 1831-1956 - Charles Pardoe\,
  University of Cambridge 
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CONTACT:Gabriela Pavarini
DESCRIPTION:For as long as guitars have graced our musical communities\, e
 fforts have been directed towards making them louder. It is nearly as well
  known that guitarists who are heard do not always play in tune. If only t
 hey would practise. But what is less well known is that guitars have posed
  a rather peculiar set of technical challenges to those who would try to r
 ender them in-tune with the levels of precision and accuracy that we have 
 long since expected of the piano. In this paper I shall trace the endeavou
 r\, spanning over a century\, to improve just one of the components upon w
 hich this instrument depends for basic functionality and especially tuning
 . The ostensibly simple apparatus of the bridge had by 1956 attracted over
  100 US and British patents\; and these together reveal a gloomy yet deser
 ved account of the instrument’s tuning problems. Yet amidst the haze spr
 ang remedies which have lastingly rejuvenated that “miniature orchestra 
 in itself” as Beethoven had already envisaged in the guitar. 
LOCATION:Lecture Room 1\, Faculty of Music\, 11 West Road\, CB3 9DP
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