@fodera6 Forget about it, you are talking to little 16 years old teenagers who all want an agile multiscale guitar because they all think that these instruments started with Meshuggah in 2006 and they all want one because of the hype and the huge internet buzz because they want to be cool. They have no idea who is Leopold Weiss and they have no clue about the history of extended range instruments. They only say that Göran Söllscher is cool because OMG he plays on an 11 string! pathetic...
@hufschmidguitars1 I wasn't on any forum. Just saying that, from an unbiased point of view with not a huge amount of knowledge about/interest in guitars, you sound like a total prat.
Well,i'm a Metalhead,and i don't normally love those Music genres,but this guy is abseloutely...Amazing!Wonderfull Music. (Sorry for the horrible English)
@Haddockxyz300 this is where metal comes from my friend :) All the big metal bands have always been heavily influenced by classical music.which is normal. Secondly this instrument was created in order to perform some old lute transcribtions, music from Leopold Weiss is a great exemple. The thypical 6 string guitar does not have enough range to perform old lute transcriptions. However classical guitars, also 8 string have been around for hundereds of years way before Meshuggah in 2006 LOL
I agree with you, but it's also good to see multi-scale guitars making a resurgence through what ever genre and seeing multi-scale guitars becoming more and more widely available, I know mass produced guitars aren't always the best but most of us cannot afford to get a a guitar built by a boutique Luthier.
Correct, it is spruce. The instrument in question is an eleven-stringed altoguitar made by professor Georg Bolin (1912-1993) in Stockholm, Sweden. He invented this guitar type in collaboration with another Swedish guitarist, professor Per-Olof Johnson in the late sixties - early seventies. Söllscher is today guitar proefessor in Malmö, Sweden, where he once studied for Johnson.
This is a great guitar player with a wonderful instrument, certainly it is a 11-string instrument, but whether it´s a 11-string or 12-string is really not important. Just enjoy the music.
This Ciacone of his has stirred my soul since he first recorded in in the early 80s on Deutsche Grammaphone. The best anyone has done. I'm moved every time I hear it.
this guy is incredible. i am now a dedicated fan. i'm also glad there aren't sophomoric comments here comparing him to galbraith, williams, parkening, bream, a romero or whomever or "So and so is better". just enjoy a master, his unique style, sensitivity and incredible tech.
@fodera6 i assumed 12 string. its seems a very fair mistake for a non-musician. until now i was unaware that 11-string guitars exist/played. I mean, honestly, 11 strings have not been popularized in current culture(movies, contemporary bands, art, radio, or even guitar stores). while unfortunate, its nevertheless the case. I wish this man could make millions, however fame and wealth rn't correlated w talent. hence popularity of classless,artless,uneducated losers like "fiddy cent"n brit spear
Ok, so the last 4 strings need the extra length for string tension, right? I get that, but why is the extension fretted? Are you supposed to fret up there too?? I won't be able to sleep until I understand this!!!
The 1:st piece is called: Fantasie in D Minor, S.L. Weiss. The 2:nd is the ciaconna also Weiss of course. Dont try to play it on a 6-string though cause it doesn't have the deep base needed för this type of sound.
Yes, I know - I play it myself, both on an 8-string guitar from Gorans trans. and on a 6-string (from other trans.). The main reason that the alto-guitar exists is that it sounds more accurate to what the composers at the time could here - the deep base included, bases that u wont find on a 6-string guitar.
it's a 11 string guitar tuned e' b' g d A E D C_ B _A_ G .ָ
a baroque for playng weiss (13 courses) is tuned:f' d' a f d A G F E D C _B _A .congratulationsfor this interpretation of weiss, lovely and subtil ornamentatios.
No.. A guitar has is a spanish instrument that is evolved out of the lute family. This lute is not a guitar. The shape has nothuing to do with the name, or type of an instrument.
I don't believe he literally meant that it is a lute shaped like a guitar. Pretty sure it is just a joking reference to the archlute, which has extra bass strings, as does this guitar.
One of the reasons I found this so interesting is that it reminded me of the late Narcisco [sp] Yepes, who played a 8 stringed clasical. Still, very beautiful.
It's very much a guitar... I play it and it's nothing like playing lute. It's a guitar with 5 extra bases. It's invented in 1966 by Swedish Luthier Georg Bolin.
Then I guess we should call a ukelele a guitar because it has frets. Sure it's tuned like a violin and is a bit smaller than a modern guitar, but who said that a guitar has to be tuned in fourths, and be a standard size, right?
Well... A ukelele is another instrument. This is a modified guitar. You play it like a guitar, it's built like a guitar, by guitar luthiers, stringed with guitar strings, played by guitarists. It's basically just a guitar with 5 extra bass strings.
With your way of seing things I guess a twelvestringed western guitar is no guitar either... Is that a piano hybrid then?
Well I can count only 11 strings...
adamos8 3 weeks ago
How does one tune a guitar like this? (I mean, name of the strings, like: E-A-D-G-B-E)
boomtao 3 months ago
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G3Rath 7 months ago
Yes,most of weiss' music is for lute.and he wrote a lot of music,but it can all be played on the guitar too
archlutesmith 7 months ago
was this originally written for lute?
duderock009 7 months ago
@TheDjentBoy SHRED!
/watch?v=-_f2xU_h02A
/watch?v=zVE8Jy_pPfc
Teehee xD
ultrabot90 8 months ago
@TheDjentBoy awesome name!!! \m/
BachtotheFutureBWV 8 months ago
Superb phrasing & mind-blowingly effortlessness we should be bringing these artists to Singapore's guitar festival !!!
lexusmaxus 8 months ago
A great song
paracel72 10 months ago
@fodera6 Forget about it, you are talking to little 16 years old teenagers who all want an agile multiscale guitar because they all think that these instruments started with Meshuggah in 2006 and they all want one because of the hype and the huge internet buzz because they want to be cool. They have no idea who is Leopold Weiss and they have no clue about the history of extended range instruments. They only say that Göran Söllscher is cool because OMG he plays on an 11 string! pathetic...
hufschmidguitars1 11 months ago
@hufschmidguitars1 Wow, hipster of the guitar world right here. I KNEW ABOUT 11 STRINGS BEFORE THEY BECAME MAINSTREAM.
lolomfgmen 9 months ago
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hufschmidguitars1 9 months ago
@hufschmidguitars1 I wasn't on any forum. Just saying that, from an unbiased point of view with not a huge amount of knowledge about/interest in guitars, you sound like a total prat.
lolomfgmen 9 months ago
@lolomfgmen you surely do make yourself look like a wonderfull prat calling people hipsters :)
hufschmidguitars1 9 months ago
Well,i'm a Metalhead,and i don't normally love those Music genres,but this guy is abseloutely...Amazing!Wonderfull Music. (Sorry for the horrible English)
Haddockxyz300 11 months ago
@Haddockxyz300 this is where metal comes from my friend :) All the big metal bands have always been heavily influenced by classical music.which is normal. Secondly this instrument was created in order to perform some old lute transcribtions, music from Leopold Weiss is a great exemple. The thypical 6 string guitar does not have enough range to perform old lute transcriptions. However classical guitars, also 8 string have been around for hundereds of years way before Meshuggah in 2006 LOL
hufschmidguitars1 11 months ago
@hufschmidguitars1
Well lets just say it the proof tath Metal is real music!
Haddockxyz300 11 months ago
@hufschmidguitars1
I agree with you, but it's also good to see multi-scale guitars making a resurgence through what ever genre and seeing multi-scale guitars becoming more and more widely available, I know mass produced guitars aren't always the best but most of us cannot afford to get a a guitar built by a boutique Luthier.
someguy6481 11 months ago
@fodera6 Jeese Louise..... <- opps did I Speel dat roite?
juiceterry67 1 year ago
Correct, it is spruce. The instrument in question is an eleven-stringed altoguitar made by professor Georg Bolin (1912-1993) in Stockholm, Sweden. He invented this guitar type in collaboration with another Swedish guitarist, professor Per-Olof Johnson in the late sixties - early seventies. Söllscher is today guitar proefessor in Malmö, Sweden, where he once studied for Johnson.
whoisathome 1 year ago
This is a great guitar player with a wonderful instrument, certainly it is a 11-string instrument, but whether it´s a 11-string or 12-string is really not important. Just enjoy the music.
weijenw 1 year ago
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amirner 1 year ago
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what's the name of the second part of this piece ? 2:39 cómo se llama la segunda parte ??
amirner 1 year ago
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amirner 1 year ago
This Ciacone of his has stirred my soul since he first recorded in in the early 80s on Deutsche Grammaphone. The best anyone has done. I'm moved every time I hear it.
Sejaynus 1 year ago
this guy is incredible. i am now a dedicated fan. i'm also glad there aren't sophomoric comments here comparing him to galbraith, williams, parkening, bream, a romero or whomever or "So and so is better". just enjoy a master, his unique style, sensitivity and incredible tech.
dagitardoode 1 year ago
Wonderful. Is that a spruce or cedar top?
GaleoDeus 1 year ago
@GaleoDeus I'm guessing spruce, I don't think cedar is strong enough to handle that much pull from all those strings.
sbliss554 1 year ago
@fodera6 i assumed 12 string. its seems a very fair mistake for a non-musician. until now i was unaware that 11-string guitars exist/played. I mean, honestly, 11 strings have not been popularized in current culture(movies, contemporary bands, art, radio, or even guitar stores). while unfortunate, its nevertheless the case. I wish this man could make millions, however fame and wealth rn't correlated w talent. hence popularity of classless,artless,uneducated losers like "fiddy cent"n brit spear
ahesse1488 1 year ago
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Wonderful, what's the name of the song 2:39 ?
heyEjje 1 year ago
Wonderful, what's the name of the song 2:39 ?
heyEjje 1 year ago
@heyEjje Its S.L. weiss's Chaconne
eastlakelax2 1 year ago
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heyEjje 1 year ago
mmmm does he play with 12 or 11 strings?
Dworfklux 2 years ago
@Dworfklux 11, the title is wrong
giltigt 2 years ago
He was in Seattle and I missed him?? Seattle is 30 mins away from me casa! IUYGFJGKHFKUYTFD
eastlakelax2 2 years ago
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eskildbakken 2 years ago
It's a great privilege to have a master class with him, and I had one last Sunday in Seattle! He's awesome!
Minh
tdcguitarist 2 years ago
Very nice! I look forward to his concert in Seattle on January 23, 2010.
workedant 2 years ago
simply awesome and so beautiful..
crayn006 2 years ago
Wonderful renditions of two pieces by Weiss. I do not think I have heard better versions of these masterworks. Goran is a great artist.
higarmi 2 years ago 4
Would you happen to know what the two pieces are? This is beautiful, but I don't see any names listed anywhere
CLeJack 2 years ago
These are both Sylvius Leopold Weiss pieces. The first is called Fantasia and the second is called Ciacona.
muaddib1st 2 years ago
11弦ギターだぜ！
takemitsu1960 2 years ago
Ok, so the last 4 strings need the extra length for string tension, right? I get that, but why is the extension fretted? Are you supposed to fret up there too?? I won't be able to sleep until I understand this!!!
apazeia 2 years ago 2
so you don't sleep since 3 months ago?
vardor100 2 years ago
I couldnt sleep, I`'ve been busy with your mother
apazeia 2 years ago 3
The are there only because it looks better that way, no other reason.
giltigt 2 years ago
いつか聴きにいきたい!!!
lovelovereyna 2 years ago
So let me get this straight, 11 strings are rare?
bongolow07 3 years ago
well yeah
ProtomanZ 3 years ago 2
this is beautiful i dont care who you are
joeldoer 3 years ago
It's not a 12 stringed guitar! It's a 11 stringed guitar tuned like a lute. Listen to the interview and you'll see.
rekrevsort 3 years ago 2
what a big ass greasy thumb nail... sorry to wreak the moment back to his amazingness
PURPLEprsneater 3 years ago
A it's necessary for clarity
B it's not greasy
C I have one too ^^
Shreddersebbes 2 years ago
idi, thats a 11 stringed guitar!!
dannepanne87 3 years ago
damn! I almost cried
lupusfunera 3 years ago
what this peace called?
Mrcowasdf 3 years ago
The 1:st piece is called: Fantasie in D Minor, S.L. Weiss. The 2:nd is the ciaconna also Weiss of course. Dont try to play it on a 6-string though cause it doesn't have the deep base needed för this type of sound.
simonshusse 3 years ago
ok, thank you.
Mrcowasdf 3 years ago
It can be also played in a 6 strings guitar,I know a guy that can play it
diex17 3 years ago
Yes, I know - I play it myself, both on an 8-string guitar from Gorans trans. and on a 6-string (from other trans.). The main reason that the alto-guitar exists is that it sounds more accurate to what the composers at the time could here - the deep base included, bases that u wont find on a 6-string guitar.
simonshusse 3 years ago 2
This is not a guitar, lute or just a custom built instrument. This is an actual instrument, called Alto Guitar, built by Georg Bolin.
lundafalafel 3 years ago 2
This almost brings tears to my eyes.. so beautiful!
eirinikos 3 years ago
it can be tuned also in g :g' d' b'flat f c G A B C _B
haimcito 3 years ago
it's a 11 string guitar tuned e' b' g d A E D C_ B _A_ G .ָ
a baroque for playng weiss (13 courses) is tuned:f' d' a f d A G F E D C _B _A .congratulationsfor this interpretation of weiss, lovely and subtil ornamentatios.
haimcito 3 years ago
The thing is badass and he's playing it. Let's just enjoy it.
humanhamburger 3 years ago 16
yeah ! badass sound too
tenebrae654789 3 years ago
who cares if its a guitar or a lute...
listen to the music ! its great !! thank you :)
barak51 3 years ago
This is an ALTO GUITAR
euterpeal 4 years ago
It's not a guitar.. It'a a lute with guitarshape.. At least that's what the envelope of his cd says...
HenrikRagnarsson 4 years ago
a lute with a guitar shape pretty much is a guitar
SteveFeces 4 years ago
No.. A guitar has is a spanish instrument that is evolved out of the lute family. This lute is not a guitar. The shape has nothuing to do with the name, or type of an instrument.
JustWickedSwede 4 years ago
Errr let's settle for a hybrid :)
Decimatyx 4 years ago
Hm.. Ok.. I agree, very reluctantly though...
JustWickedSwede 4 years ago
I don't believe he literally meant that it is a lute shaped like a guitar. Pretty sure it is just a joking reference to the archlute, which has extra bass strings, as does this guitar.
what567 3 years ago
i believe its just a custom guitar but hes playing lute music on it.
riceboii101 3 years ago
My God, you're right. I haven't seen a picture of him in some time, and never a video. Thanks for the correction.
valdae 4 years ago
It's an 11 string actually, not 12
yogaofmusic 4 years ago
I'd love to see Goran do a duet with Leo Lottke. Both are great twelve string guitarist, but from different worlds.
robmanic44 4 years ago
Beautiful and magnificent!!, Bravo!!!
samot70 4 years ago
The great Swedish maestro virtuoso tributes Der Grosse with the utmost respect he deserves. BRILLIANT!
rockabilly64 4 years ago 2
One of the reasons I found this so interesting is that it reminded me of the late Narcisco [sp] Yepes, who played a 8 stringed clasical. Still, very beautiful.
valdae 4 years ago
actually Yepes played a 10 string. I think this is lovely but I don't think we can call this a guitar anymore. This is a modern Lute.
regondi 4 years ago
It's very much a guitar... I play it and it's nothing like playing lute. It's a guitar with 5 extra bases. It's invented in 1966 by Swedish Luthier Georg Bolin.
Who ever said a guitar must have 6 stings?
toffetoff 4 years ago 2
Then I guess we should call a ukelele a guitar because it has frets. Sure it's tuned like a violin and is a bit smaller than a modern guitar, but who said that a guitar has to be tuned in fourths, and be a standard size, right?
regondi 3 years ago
Well... A ukelele is another instrument. This is a modified guitar. You play it like a guitar, it's built like a guitar, by guitar luthiers, stringed with guitar strings, played by guitarists. It's basically just a guitar with 5 extra bass strings.
With your way of seing things I guess a twelvestringed western guitar is no guitar either... Is that a piano hybrid then?
Sorry, but this is a guitar. An alto guitar...
toffetoff 3 years ago