[LUTE] Re: Gut strings - 'Universale corde musicali'

2007-08-25 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Anthony, I do, of course, generally bow to Mimmo Peruffo's undoubted experience and knowledge of gut strings and, indeed, very much look forward to his revamped loaded strings due to be launched this Autumn. However, the use of a single gut was not my speculation but a view

[LUTE] Re: Posting to the List (not from the rule book)

2007-08-25 Thread alexandros tzimeros
You forgot to mention twelve more, to discuss about historical light bulb changing, and the possibility to find iconographical evidence. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Rép : [LUTE] Re: Gut strings - 'Universale cord e musicali'

2007-08-25 Thread Anthony Hind
Le 25 aout 07 =E0 08:49, Martyn Hodgson a ecrit : Dear Anthony, I do, of course, generally bow to Mimmo Peruffo's undoubted experience and knowledge of gut strings and, indeed, very much look forward to his revamped loaded strings due to be launched this Autumn. However, the use of a

[LUTE] Re: Gut strings - 'Universale corde musicali'

2007-08-25 Thread Anthony Hind
Sorry, my last message had the level of quotation removed, so impossible to understand. I will try again Le 25 août 07 à 08:49, Martyn Hodgson a écrit : Dear Anthony, I do, of course, generally bow to Mimmo Peruffo's undoubted experience and knowledge of gut strings and, indeed,

[LUTE] TabHelper 1.0 - online javascript converter

2007-08-25 Thread Luke Orlando Emmet
Dear list Following feedback from a number of you, I have created a javascript online converter for those of you that wish to use the Excel spreadsheet format for creating TAB content, but you arent running Excel on Windows. You should now be able to use other spreadsheet software, such as

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE] Rép : [LUTE] Re: Gut strings - 'Univ ersale corde musicali'

2007-08-25 Thread Anthony Hind
Mimmo As Martyn addressed a few words to me, I tried to reply, but it would have been better had he asked you directly. Clearly, it is better to read the words of a skilled person, such as yourself, who has spent many years both saving knowledge that otherwise would have been lost,

[LUTE] Re: Gut strings - 'Universale corde musicali'

2007-08-25 Thread Martyn Hodgson
Dear Anthony, I fear you might have misunderstood my last: the earlier speculation was indeed that a single gut so selected and processed with minimal 'rectifying' was stronger: one of the factors put forward as contributing towards string weakness was the rectifying and/or polishing

[LUTE] Re: Gut strings - 'Universale corde musicali'

2007-08-25 Thread Martin Shepherd
Dear All, My experiences with Sofracob gut are much the same as David's - fine for everything except a top string. I recently tried to order some fret gut from them and they wrote back to say that they no longer supply fret gut - dommage! Anyone know of a good source of fret gut? By the

[LUTE] Re: Posting to the List (not from the rule book)

2007-08-25 Thread David Rastall
On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:15 AM, alexandros tzimeros wrote: You forgot to mention twelve more, to discuss about historical light bulb changing, and the possibility to find iconographical evidence. Yes! Absolutely the iconographical evidence cannot be ignored, considering the vast number of

[LUTE] Re: Gut strings - 'Universale corde musicali'

2007-08-25 Thread Anthony Hind
Glad to see you are back, Martin (perhaps you weren't away). The Purr'll strings are strong, but how do they sound? Regards Anthony Le 25 août 07 à 16:44, Martin Shepherd a écrit : Dear All, My experiences with Sofracob gut are much the same as David's - fine for everything except a top

[LUTE] Early Music . . .

2007-08-25 Thread Rebecca Banks
August 25th, 2007 Dear Lutenists: I have just launched 11 Ebooks of poetry, 8 of which have original early or Folk music that needs to be recorded. In an effort to raise financing for the recording projects I have put them on my Web site, www.tympanilanerecords.com on the Shopping

[LUTE] Re: TabHelper 1.0 - online javascript converter

2007-08-25 Thread Steve Bryson
Hi Luke - Thanks for the quick solution for us mac-heads! It works as advertised, even on such relatively complex TAB expressions as b 1 \2d\4e x \3d[ 2 a x \1]c x a x \3d b This will make make creating and editing TAB much easier. Now if only I could invert the process and load in

[LUTE] Re: Posting to the List (not from the rule book)

2007-08-25 Thread alexandros tzimeros
_ From: David Rastall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2007 5:05 PM To: alexandros tzimeros Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Posting to the List (not from the rule book) On Aug 25, 2007, at 5:15 AM, alexandros tzimeros wrote: You forgot

[LUTE] Re: Gut strings - 'Universale corde musicali'

2007-08-25 Thread Edward Martin
Dear Martin, Best wishes to you... we have not corresponded for a while. I wholeheartedly agree on your statement about different string types requiring a different technique or playing style. I have not played wound strings in many years, but when I do play someone else's lute with wound