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Report of Meeting 22/10/22
SLEGS co-founder Bill Samson opened our meeting, after rounding off our last one. He brought along a guitar which he built himself in 1988, and as the guitar is very similar to a Torres guitar owned by Francisco Tárrega, he played three pieces associated with him. Firstly, he performed a study in E minor, and while the piece is often attributed to Tárrega, Bill’s research tells us it first appeared in a book published in Brazil. Secondly, he played a study in B minor by Fernando Sor. Bill, influenced by a historical recording of Miguel Llobet, played the piece with inégal, which suited it very well as it bounced along under his fingers. Finally, we enjoyed a Pavane in A major, which Bill likes to call ‘a study in glissando’. Bill used the whole range of his guitar as he slid up and down the neck, delivered precise and clear harmonics, and showed us that his guitar sounds as...