The book "Parcours d'intervalles : Invitation à de nouveaux espaces sonores" is available for sale.

Publisher: Arthéa, 2009

To order send a check for 25 euros payable to "ASSOCIATION ARTHEA DIFFUSION. 3, route de Valennes 41170 Baillou

Made of stainless steel, it has a bent and rippled finger board that has frets, five melodic strings, two rhythmic strings and twelve sympathetic resonant strings. The bridge is only semi-attached and can support resonators. On the bridge itself, a bevelled screw device reveals the harmonics of the different strings.

The AltarInox® is the first instrument to which an internal sound board has been adapted.  This board extends under the finger board, inside, and creates a big sound for a small instrument like this one.

This instrument was designed following the “veena-guitar” and, allows, in the same way, modal tunes to be played with a technique close to the one used when playing the guitar.

Although it looks very different, this instrument was inspired directly by the Indian instrument of the same name. The Indian Tampura is not a melodic instrument, its role is to give the tone by maintaining, throughout the whole piece of music, the tones and the leading notes of the mode that is played. It is a fretless 4 or 5 stringed instrument which has a special feature: its curved bridge allows the emission of harmonics. It is a typical Indian instrument. However, instruments with a similar function can be found in other musical traditions such as the Occitan “ton-ton”.
The Tampura is an updated version of the traditional instrument, it is lighter, easier to handle and more resistant which allows musicians that have only little experience to make very precise harmonic adjustments.
 

A L'occasion du salon Music and You 2010, Georges Alloro présentera en avant première un nouveau type de guitare Customisée. Baptisé Flying Snake®, ce Custom a été conçu grâce à l’appui de son ami de longue date, Michel Lâg Chavarria, concepteur de Lâg Guitars.
Construite à partir du modèle Lâg-Jet, cette guitare 6 cordes est composée d’un corps en aluminium aéronautique (duralumin) ventilé, de Plexiglass et d’ébène. Outre la recherche esthétique, l’utilisation du vérin à gaz pour remplacer les ressorts du vibrato et le travail ergonomique effectué autour de la tenue en jeu sont d’autres éléments qui marquent résolument l’identité de ce modèle inédit.

En attendant de la découvrir à l’occasion du salon Music and You 2010 (stand Lâg Guitars n°A137 «en attente de confirmation» ou sur l’espace Maîtres d’Art n°A38) découvrez la bande annonce du custom Flying Snake®