{"id":881,"date":"2011-08-30T07:25:30","date_gmt":"2011-08-30T13:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=881"},"modified":"2011-08-30T07:40:52","modified_gmt":"2011-08-30T13:40:52","slug":"tunesday-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/?p=881","title":{"rendered":"Tunesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I read about a classical guitarist (named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ten-string_guitar#Yepes.27_ten-string_guitar\">Narciso Yepes<\/a>, although I had to look his name up; I didn&#8217;t remember it) who commissioned the building of several guitars with extra strings, including a ten-string guitar, and asked his friends which one sounded the best. They voted for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tenstringguitar.com\/\">ten-string<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Be that as it may, note that the anecdote implies that he became at least competent on each of the guitars. I wonder how many configurations <a href=\"http:\/\/keithmedleymusic.com\/\">Keith Medley<\/a> went through before deciding that twenty-seven strings was the correct number to get the sound he wanted? <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"345\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lo5mvTfYSQY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Years ago, I read about a classical guitarist (named Narciso Yepes, although I had to look his name up; I didn&#8217;t remember it) who commissioned the building of several guitars [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendreth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}