- I wonder if there are there people who use all gut and nails.
I did for a while. I started life as a guitar player with nails on
nylon. Then included lutes with nails on carbon and overspuns to the
collection. The sound was singing, strong and very clear. Very clean
too, which
As my lute guru, Diana Poulton reminded me - Don't base your playing on
what today's lutenists do. Go to the sources and make up your own mind.
In fact the only times I saw her angry was when people made sweeping
assertions that weren't underpinned by the sources.
Bill
Can I 'like' this mail?
David
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On 11 December 2013 09:36, William Samson [3]willsam...@yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
As my lute guru, Diana
Ah, the just leave your dogma on the porch dogma.
Gary
On 2013-12-10 18:20, Mayes, Joseph wrote:
Well, I was sort of fearing some push-back from the tap-dancing
barefoot crowd. I don't know how you can speak for most of the
lutenists out there. I certainly only meant to speak for me. Sweetness
I feel more like I do now than I ever did before. The past is the future
of the present.
Gary
On 2013-12-10 18:17, Sean Smith wrote:
If things weren't like they were, they'd be different!
s
On Dec 10, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Tom Draughon wrote:
With Viagra he may have had more!
Tom Draughon
Sean
I know his father bought Bream his first lute off the back of a
sailor, he was carrying it One day in 1947, his dad was walking down
Charing Cross Road and met a sailor carrying a lute. It would become a
key moment for British postwar music. He asked: 'What is that?' The
A couple of links about that interesting last mail (thanks Allan)
[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Augustine_Ltd.
and
[2]http://archive.is/ZP3yY (recovered webpage where you can read From
Gut to Nylon by Ivor Mairants)
Regards
David Morales
Cuerdas Pulsadas
Dan,
On Wed, 12/11/13, Dan Winheld dwinh...@lmi.net wrote:
In fact, before Dupont's nylon
came along, Agustin Barrios Mangore had to use steel
strings, as the greater part of his life and work was in
South America- no place for gut!
Barrios made
The Barrios-as-first legend is batted around quite a bit, but I think that's
due to his current popularity as a mainstream classical instrumentalist. I
suppose giving Barrios that credit depends upon if you're willing to consider
accompanists. Roy H. Butin, e.g., was a fine professional
Allan, about your last mail (and sorry for the indirect advertising).
We have some customers at Cuerdas Pulsadas that prefer gut strings for
their classical guitars. In fact, we have a full set of gut strings for
guitar made by Pyramid although experienced musicians prefer to buy
Chris-
Thanks for the clarification. Hazy second-hand stories get turned into
mythic certainties, blown out proportion- Barrios Mangore, the South
American Indian playing classical guitar in the steaming Amazon jungles,
gut strings rotting out from under his fingers. etc. The truth
makes
Dear David
Thank you for this. Interesting video and it's a shame about the sound
quality. He sounds like a good player. I wonder if he would have
benefitted from a carpet under his chair or a screen just behind him.
So much sound seems lost to the volume of the hall.
I think I'm
For me, Dan, it's a gut discussion. Watching how it moved in, out and
maybe back in a related instrument in its social and mechanical
dynamics is, I hope, instructive to a few lutenists; it certainly is
to me.
I'm sorry to hear about PR. He was spoken highly of by many here in
the
Let me talk with him. He's in China at the moment, but i'm sure he can
read and reply my mails.
For the moment, i can tell you that he's using gut only in the top
three strings (i can't remember the gauges), and he's playing with
Aquila Corde gut strings, but he's looking for a full
On Dec 11, 2013, at 9:06 AM, Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com wrote:
Interesting video and it's a shame about the sound quality. He sounds like a
good player. I wonder if he would have benefitted from a carpet under his
chair or a screen just behind him. So much sound seems lost to the volume
Dear David
Thanks. That's a healthy sized first string! That ought to get the
soundboard moving.
I'm confused about the basses, however. His 6th string is about double
the diameter of the 1st yet yields a two-octave difference. On my
lutes my 6th fundamental (roped but still fairly
Sean-
It gets even healthier; Dan Larson markets gut guitar strings as well-
for either a-415 or a-440 he recommends:
e - .62, .64, .66 mm.(light, medium heavy)
b-.82, .84, .86 mm.
g- 1.00, 1.02, 1.04 mm.
I would guess that his basses are some kind of
Sorry, David, I couldn't resist forwarding this...
Original Message
Subject: nails
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2013 21:45:06 +
From: David Hill [1]div...@tiscali.co.uk
To: Martin Shepherd [2]mar...@luteshop.co.uk
I really can't believe that lutenists
Do you think he needed it?
2013/12/10 Tom Draughon [1]t...@heartistrymusic.com
With Viagra he may have had more!
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2013/12/11 Mayes, Joseph [1]ma...@rowan.edu
Well, browse the recordings since mid seventies.
Well, I was sort of fearing some push-back from the tap-dancing
barefoot crowd. I don't know how you can speak for most of the
lutenists out there. I certainly only meant to speak for
Hi Eugene,
On Wed, 12/11/13, Braig, Eugene brai...@osu.edu wrote:
The Barrios-as-first legend is batted
around quite a bit, but I think that's due to his current
popularity as a mainstream classical
instrumentalist. I suppose giving Barrios that credit
depends upon if you're willing to
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