[LUTE] Contact

2008-07-11 Thread Shaun Ng
Can someone please pass me Philip Pickett's email address off list? We used to correspond through email, but I've since lost his email. Thanks. Shaun To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] John Dowland Site Updates

2008-07-11 Thread Rob MacKillop
I'm happy to report that the www.johndowland.co.uk site is taking shape nicely. The intention is to have a home for the complete recordings of Dowland for free download, plus essays, videos, etc. Today I have added: 1. David Taylor's dissertation on the Dowland canon - should stimulate

[LUTE] videos

2008-07-11 Thread Rob MacKillop
I'm also happy to report that the Vimeo site for lute video performances now has 101 videos! http://www.vimeo.com/Francesco You don't need to log in to watch, and the sound and vision is better than You-know-who-Tube. Rob MacKillop -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: El Gordo

2008-07-11 Thread Are Vidar Boye Hansen
It's a great pic. let's be thankful that there are so many great pics. But what I like is the Thumb Middle It is so present, so real. Could it be that this thumb middle position was the common way to play bass lutes? The Bakfark picture also shows him playing thumb middle on a large lute.

[LUTE] Re: videos

2008-07-11 Thread Stuart Walsh
Rob MacKillop wrote: I'm also happy to report that the Vimeo site for lute video performances now has 101 videos! http://www.vimeo.com/Francesco You don't need to log in to watch, and the sound and vision is better than You-know-who-Tube. Rob MacKillop I tried putting up some Foscarini

[LUTE] Re: Ornaments

2008-07-11 Thread Martin Shepherd
Dear Gilbert, Thanks - you've alerted me to something which I should have made explicit, but which I mistakenly left unsaid. Margaret Board (and Dowland) used a dot (to the left of the note) to mean a shake, instead of the more usual # . I did say that sometimes scribes substituted a dot

[LUTE] Re: videos

2008-07-11 Thread wikla
Hi Rob and all, I just put my Biber to vimeo. But how do I put/move it to your Francesco? Arto On 7/11/2008, Rob MacKillop [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm also happy to report that the Vimeo site for lute video performances now has 101 videos! http://www.vimeo.com/Francesco You don't

[LUTE] Last joints that bend backwards.

2008-07-11 Thread Herbert Ward
Some people have fingers that bend backwards somewhat at the last joint. Is this helpful for lute playing? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Last joints that bend backwards.

2008-07-11 Thread Sean Smith
It's extremely helpful for playing that Eb chord where the 1st finger covers the 1st frets of the 2nd and 3rd courses. Some folks even play all three 2nd frets of the big G chord. The latter doesn't quite work for me, though. Sean On Jul 11, 2008, at 6:48 PM, Herbert Ward wrote: Some