John Schnieder – Interview and Performance on Microtonal Guitar

ByBradford Werner
2017

The amazing John Schneider discusses microtonal music and the experimental 1976 Daniel Friederich meantone guitar with David Collett, president of Guitar Salon International. Part 1 of 3, with performances by Mak Grgic. Recorded at the Guitar Salon International showroom in Santa Monica, CA. This comes via the GSI YouTube channel. I’ve feature John Schnieder many times on the site including reviews of his fantastic albums but also his book on contemporary guitar. He is an amazing musician and champion of new music, just intonation and microtonal music.

Here’s a video interview and some performances of Lou Harrison. I think this is part one of three so I’ll update this post as more videos come out. John plays his 1982 Bob Mattingly guitar with custom Interchangeable Fingerboards by Novatone.

Bradford Werner

Bradford Werner is a classical guitarist and music publisher from Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. He originally created this site for his students at the Victoria Conservatory of Music but now shares content worldwide. Curating guitar content helps students absorb the culture, musical ideas, and technique of the classical guitar. Bradford also has a YouTube channel with over 94,000 subscribers and 13 million views. He taught classical guitar at the Victoria Conservatory of Music for 16 years and freelanced in Greater Victoria for 20 years and now dedicates much of his time curating content online and helping connect the classical guitar community. See more at his personal website.