[LUTE] 13 course Baroque Lute for sale

2014-08-20 Thread Anton Birula
Swan neck baroque  lute by Anatoli Gundilowicz string length 69/95 nice action warm tone works well with all sorts of stringing, good for works by Weiss and Bach as well as for French repertoire. The Body is nice to hold not too deep. Pictures can be seen here (9 photos)

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord Strings in F Minor

2014-08-20 Thread Helen Atkinson
I imagine it would work particularly well as a lute duet... Helen On 20 August 2014 05:38, Edward C. Yong [1]edward.y...@gmail.com wrote: I, for one, would love an arrangement for 7-course or archlute! Edward Chrysogonus Yong [2]edward.y...@gmail.com On 19 Aug, 2014, at

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord Strings in F Minor

2014-08-20 Thread r.turov...@gmail.com
By popular demand - an archlute version: http://polyhymnion.org/swv/music/bach5arc.pdf Enjoy. Amities, RT On 8/20/2014 12:38 AM, Edward C. Yong wrote: I, for one, would love an arrangement for 7-course or archlute! Edward Chrysogonus Yong edward.y...@gmail.com On 19 Aug, 2014, at 11:24

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord Strings in F Minor

2014-08-20 Thread Helen Atkinson
How about aA 7-courseA version from someone?A ThatA would be popular! Helen On Wednesday, 20 August 2014, [1]r.turov...@gmail.com [2]r.turov...@gmail.com wrote: By popular demand - an archlute version: [3]http://polyhymnion.org/swv/music/bach5arc.pdf Enjoy.

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord Strings in F Minor

2014-08-20 Thread r.turov...@gmail.com
It would be too far out of character for the instrument, especially for those with unequal fretting. RT On 8/20/2014 8:38 AM, Helen Atkinson wrote: How about a 7-course version from someone? That would be popular! Helen On Wednesday, 20 August 2014,

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord Strings in F Minor

2014-08-20 Thread Taco Walstra
On 08/20/2014 02:42 PM, r.turov...@gmail.com wrote: But those people can easily change their 7 course fretting into well-tempered, not? ;-) (someone asked me once to tune my theorbo into 'Valotti' for Monteverdi... Ehh, didn't work very well..) Taco It would be too far out of

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord Strings in F Minor

2014-08-20 Thread r.turov...@gmail.com
Just for one piece, how many hours with a calculator, and shifting them frets back and forth, loosening them? That would redefine masochism. RT On 8/20/2014 8:55 AM, Taco Walstra wrote: On 08/20/2014 02:42 PM, r.turov...@gmail.com wrote: But those people can easily change their 7 course

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord Strings in F Minor

2014-08-20 Thread Dan Winheld
The archlute version is, for most intents purposes, your 7 (pref. low D) course version. Just play with your low octave bass notes; there are not so many of them as to constitute a linear, melodically independent bass line that would be degraded by octave transpositions. Having said that, I

[LUTE] Re: Bach's Concerto for Harpsichord Strings in F Minor

2014-08-20 Thread howard posner
On Aug 20, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Dan Winheld dwinh...@lmi.net wrote: Having said that, I must agree with Roman- out of character for the instrument, at least for performance. Given that it’s an oboe solo that Bach arranged for harpsichord, probably for didactic purposes, I’m not sure it makes

[LUTE] Seven courses versus eight.

2014-08-20 Thread Herbert Ward
What is the extent and nature of the historical liturature which is playable on an 8-course Renassiance lute, but not on a 7-course? In other words, is a 7-course instrument a workable subsitute for an 8-course? This assumes the 7-course lutenist is willing to retune his 7th course between

[LUTE] Re: Seven courses versus eight.

2014-08-20 Thread Sean Smith
As far as I know, relatively few pieces were written for an 8-c lute. (Sorry, I know there are some but forget who specified exactly 8-courses) Many pieces were written for a 7-c where the lowest note was either an F or a D starting with Adriaenssen and the Siena ms. in the 1580's and

[LUTE] Re: Seven courses versus eight.

2014-08-20 Thread Edward C. Yong
just for myself, when i'm playing my 7-course at home for no audience, i've been known to tune the two strings of the 7th course to F and D. yes, that's not a unison, i know, and then i'm careful to hit only one string of the course when i need to, making for a sort of cheat 8-course… i wonder