Herb,
I speak as one who has not yet played the lute I'm building (that
notorious flat back that has been bandied about on this site). But I do
speak with a knowledge of design of other stringed instruments. There is a
non-intuitive anomolie, the mass of the string makes no difference as to the
Dear Jon and All:
Sorry to backtrack here, but I saw a finished version of one of those
flat-back lutes the other day. It looked and sounded like a piece of junk.
Yours,
Jim
Dear Mathias,
thank you very much for your answer!
A mi la bmol is another designation of A minor, as you
will have guessed. Bmol
Yes, I was misled by an analogy:
Prelude APrelude B
Ton de la Chevre Ton d A mi la b.mol
I thought that the Ton
Hi,
can somebody please tell me, if Michael Stitt still has the eMail
address
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Thomas Schall
Niederhofheimer Weg 3
D-65843 Sulzbach
06196/74519
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www.lautenist.de / www.tslaute.de/weiss
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Continued.
Dear McCoy,
As for the lute manuscript itslef, during the chaos of World War_II a team
of Lithuanian nationalists broke into the Prussian State Archives in
Koenigsberg. They wanted to repatriate a national treasure, an old
manuscript containing an ancient Lithuanian epic poem. In
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 15:35:43 -0500, Arthur Ness (boston)
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Continued.
Dear McCoy,
He's Stewart. Stewart McCoy!
I'll continuie in the next message with an account of how the Koenigsberg
Manuscript really found its way to Vilnius. Sorry, McCoy. No KGB. No
CIA. No FBI. No Agent 007. Just a team of Lithuanian patriots. Sigitas
Silinskas's pals.
AJN
Actually KGB has a hand in this story, albeit
Jim,
I guarantee you that the one I'm making will not look like junk, but I can't
guarantee the sound until I string it.
Sorry to backtrack here, but I saw a finished version of one of those
flat-back lutes the other day. It looked and sounded like a piece of junk.
Yours,
Jim
The sound
