On 20/02/2014 03:11, Rockford Mjos wrote:
Thanks for posting this. You continue to bring our attention to interesting
music with your fine performances.
How much of the piece did you play?
Thanks again for the music!
-- Rocky
Thanks Rocky. There are 9 pages of music, leisurely laid out.
Why were frets historically made of gut rather than
bone, wood, metal, or ivory?
With gut frets, it is easy to adjust intonation.
But if hide glue were used, bone/wood/metal frets
could also be adjusted. In fact, such frets would offer
more latitude in adjustment of intonation than
gut frets,
i vaguely recall reading Gregorio Paniagua did some of this stuff in the 70s,
but couldn't be sure, not having been born yet...
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Theorbos can be set up up as 6+8, 7+7 and 8+6. Does anyone have any
preference and reasons?
Thanks
Anthony
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We all seem to agree that frets were an innovation developed to improve
pitch accuracy on the fingered notes of a lute, using the same or
similar material as that used for the plucked strings of the
instrument. Using a harder material for frets than the gut or silk
strings would
On 02/20/2014 01:59 PM, Anthony Hart wrote:
Hi, much depends on the type of strings you use. The 8-6 configuration
will give you a low F on the fingerboard but in plain gut it's not a
nice sound. However, it gives the possibility to tune quickly between
movements or pieces, when playing
For me it's the question: What the old ones had as setup?
Normally, we can say: An instrument with more pegs than used strings is a
modern invention (of course, the early French theorbo seems to have a single
strung petit jeu, but was perhaps built for double courses in the petit jeu).
And:
Hi,
I am afraid it's a really long story.
- Italian theorbos were, as far as I know, always 6 (fretted) + 8
basses.
- 7 + 7 are kind of hard to find n Museums and collections, but
existed. Extremely helpful when you need an occasional G sharp :-)
- 8 (fretted) + 6 basses
In fact, such frets would offer more latitude in adjustment of intonation than gut
frets, because they could be curved or segmented.
No kidding. Segmented hard, fixed frets are not a new invention. Check
John Schneider's guitar:
In fact, he has guitars with replaceable fingerboards; all with
I forgot to mention that I discovered the Franc,ois Campion' quote
thanks to the Theorbo page on Facebook :-)
...and I just checked my own copy (thank you, Andreas!) of Franc,ois
Campion, Addition au Traite d'accompagnement et de composition par la
regle de l'octave, Paris 1730: the
Might anyone have the tab for a tune in William Ballet's lute book, Callino
casturame? Apparently this is the earliest irish melody found in tab and is a
phonetic approximation of CailÃn ó chois tSiúire mé or I am a girl from
Suirside. William Ballet's Lute book is currently on display at
I use 6+8. To me it makes more sense to have F and G as diapasons because they
are used more often.
It is probably worth mentioning that Campion, a late baroque source, gives us
the historical solution for the lack of a G#: play it up the octave. He doesn't
prefer this to the 'Maltot style'
Try
[1]http://digitalcollections.tcd.ie/home/index.php?DRIS_ID=MS408_001
This is a download that should have what you want.
David
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