[LUTE] Re: gut string, etc.

2011-11-20 Thread Orphenica
Hi collective lute wisdom, can somebody sum up the situation on gut strings for me. As I am a heavy gut player, I'd like to understand what is going on in this field. As far as I understood it, the production and import of gut strings (esp. beef gut) used to be forbidden in the EU, due to

[LUTE] Gut Strings

2011-11-15 Thread Orphenica
Dear collective lute wisdom, is it true that the production of gut in Europe will be prohibited by European law? As stated on Aquila's web page the production of gut strings and import of raw materials will be prohibited:

[LUTE] Re: Kozena and guitars, theorbo, colascione etc..

2010-11-19 Thread Orphenica
Ariel, I couldnt resist, the joke. Hope you are fine. The other day I saw your CD in a huge CD-store and that was still in the back of my mind. Hope you will release something on your Josquin project soon. All the best Werner Am 17.11.10 13:05, schrieb Ariel Abramovich:

[LUTE] Re: Kozena and guitars, theorbo, colascione etc..

2010-11-17 Thread Orphenica
Oh My God, I did'nt know that Ariel Abramovich is such a huge hit in the states ;-) we Am 15.11.10 16:24, schrieb Eugene C. Braig IV: It's even worse than you've all imagined. This guy is popular! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCage-_yz7A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCCE-oTwRfY

[LUTE] Re: Kozena and guitars, theorbo, colascione etc..

2010-11-14 Thread Orphenica
I agree with Wikla, long live variety and strumming. I was at the Kozena concert in Hamburg, and it was a great experience. What I liked was, that the instrumentalists had their own pieces and were not hired mercenaries. And hey, whenever did people outside our esoteric circle got to hear a

[LUTE] Re: Dalza question.

2010-03-01 Thread Orphenica
Interesting theory. Gassenhauer [1] urspruenglich: Nachtbummler, also Personen, die nachts das Pflaster (be)treten (hauen in der alten Bedeutung treten, betreten) [2] abgeleitet, Musik: das von Nachtbummlern gesungene einfache, eingaengige Lied (Volkslied, Lied des

[LUTE] Re: [LUTE]

2009-12-21 Thread Orphenica
Wonderful performance, the integration of the Passamezze is ingenious... Keep up the good work, wish you both good health and pasttime with good company in 2010 we Ron Andrico schrieb: To All: After spending insane hours dedicated to house-building in a mad attempt to beat the snow

[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-16 Thread Orphenica
Thanks everybody, encouraged by your answers and especially the amazing site of Rob MacKillop (Rob, this is really georgeous!), I went to my local guitar dealer. ( By the way, his initial selling point was that, the babes like small instruments ;-) Finally I bought a tenor uke

[LUTE] Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-15 Thread Orphenica
Dear collective stringwisdom, today I passed by a Guitar Shop with lots of new and well built Ukuleles. I played some instruments and they sounded quite good. My idea, as Ukuleles are quite small an robust, to me they seem to be a perfect instrument for travelling. We there any objections in

[LUTE] Re: Newsidler

2009-06-19 Thread Orphenica
and your lute songs of the month. Martin Shepherd schrieb: Newsidler published 8 or 9 books, the last in (I think)1549. The details are in Brown, I can look it up if you like... Martin Orphenica wrote: Oh collective lute wisdom! After working sometime on Hans Newsidler's two famous

[LUTE] Re: Apple Tuning Applet

2009-06-18 Thread Orphenica
Oh collective lute wisdom! After working sometime on Hans Newsidler's two famous lutebooks, a friend told me, that there might be a third and even a fourth lutebook by Hans Newsidler. Does anybody know, what is in these books, (even more elaborated diminutions?), and if there are

[LUTE] Re: Django website

2009-05-18 Thread Orphenica
Maybe you can upload the stuff to yahoo groups, that's where fronimo hosts it's files. http://groups.yahoo.com good luck we Hi all, Last week, my host provider shut down my WEB site at http://musickshandmade.com/lute/ for abuse because I was over the limit in terms of file count by a

[LUTE] Re: New web page

2009-04-11 Thread Orphenica
Hi Martin, I am not too much into the scientific details of it, but just wanted to thank you for the great collection on your site. It gave me an afternoon of joy playing it in my garden. Thank you and a happy Easter to all of you we Martin Shepherd schrieb: Hi All, I got my first

[LUTE] Nice lute week-end in Antwerpen

2009-02-24 Thread Orphenica
Howdy luties, here are some photos of the International Lute Meeting in Antwerp, which was a pleasure for the lute friends. Thanks for the invitation and for organization to the lute societies. I enjoyed it very much. http://web.mac.com/kleppten/iWeb/LuteFestivalAntwerp/Photos.html we

[LUTE] The Sound of Crisis

2009-02-02 Thread Orphenica
Maybe a little off topic, but hilarious... Microsoft created a computer program called Songsmith to generate songs from the input of numbers. So this composer asked himself; Why not put in some actual economic data. The results are really funny. http://www.kreidler-net.de/charts.html we

[LUTE] Good 2009

2008-12-28 Thread Orphenica
To all crisis ridden vocal, flute and string players in the world, May you all (except Igor) master the coming year like he is doing in this video. With creativity, talent and not least, humor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAg5KjnAhuU Pling we Ron Andrico schrieb: To All: In the

[LUTE] Re: Good 2009

2008-12-28 Thread Orphenica
Charles Browne schrieb: it might have been better with gut stringing! Orphenica wrote: To all crisis ridden vocal, flute and string players in the world, May you all (except Igor) master the coming year like he is doing in this video. With creativity, talent and not least, humor: http

[LUTE] Re: Longest 6c piece?

2008-04-16 Thread Orphenica
Now as the long distance record has been cooked down from an hour to 8 mins a more decent bid: During the Int. Lutefestival in Regensburg Bart Roose performed a Fantasy by Neusidler which is about 12 Mins. On his highly recommended CD (Ein newgeordent kuenstlich Lautenbuch)

[LUTE] Re: WG: Charles Mouton lute music EL 082326

2008-03-28 Thread Orphenica
I had the same problem, some time ago. Download failed. But they were very helpful to deliver the files in the end. I think it's hard for a small label to meet the standards in all ways, but I think its worth supporting them, as their music is quite nice and comes at a fair price. Regards

[LUTE] Re: larger theorbos

2008-03-21 Thread Orphenica
Hilarious... Sting brought back the lute big time, you made it Gargantuan ;-) Happy Easter holidays to all the luters out there and peace on earth we David Tayler schrieb: People have been asking if I also play these larger Theorbos, So I have a picture of the largest one.

[LUTE] Re: Forqueray

2008-03-16 Thread Orphenica
May be we should create another list, suggest: the inpolite lute list or simple the insult list, exclusively reserved to people bashing comments. That would it make much easier for those to follow who are interested in more lute related discussions. ;-) we igor . schrieb:

[LUTE] Re: Tuning blues

2007-11-20 Thread Orphenica
End of Tuning blues, http://www.gibson.com/robotguitar/RobotGuitarVideoVoting.aspx hope they will develop it soon for lute. ;-) lute on we Nigel Solomon schrieb: Benjamin Stehr wrote: Hi Steward, i choosed a tension that works well in 440 on the extension of my theorbo. Changing to 415

[LUTE] Re: Ok guys...need your help (again...)

2007-11-08 Thread Orphenica
As you mention Gerbodes Site, does anybody know, why it is not accessible any more? Greetz we Tony Chalkley schrieb: There were a few or rather a lot on Sarge Gerbode's site which seems to have mislaid itself. They are also available in the public part of Alain Veylit's site, which will be

[LUTE] Re: Capirola question, now lute classical guitar

2007-07-26 Thread Orphenica
Hi all, I find it really amazing what a long thread of meandering discussion developed out of the mere question whether a dot in a 500 year old manuscript is a dot or just flyspeck. ;-) [1]http://bogulamedia.de/aa/capi1.jpg Thanks for your answers. Although I have read

[LUTE] Re: Italian Frottole broadcast on BBC radio's site.

2007-03-19 Thread Orphenica
D**M, I missed it, did anybody record it? It's a pity that BBC offers it only for 7 days. we Chris Bolton schrieb: BBC radio's Early Music show has a broadcast which you can listen to online of Italian Frottole of Bartolomeo Tromboncino and Marco Cara. It is a nice programme featuring 3