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2008-09-16 Thread lautenist
Hi all, I am selling my Liuto Attiorbato by David van Edwards. It was built in 2001 64cm 93cm, 14 courses after Matteo Sellas 1637 (Gemeentemuseum) 17 ribs, engraved fingerboard panels as the original. A marvelous instrument! I am only selling it because I consider it a

[LUTE] Lute Festival Regensburg 2008

2008-04-08 Thread lautenist
On Friday my day started with picking up the rest of the swiss lute players to j oin this year's trip to the lute festival of the german lute society which took place in Regensburg. We missed the first events due to a traffic jam which we regreted because Pietro Prosser played on a original

[LUTE] Re: Amateur recordings

2008-02-29 Thread lautenist
I bought mine in a swiss online store for 299 swiss francs (http://shop.musix.ch/ecommerce/product_info.php/manufacturers_id/1075/produ cts_id/119531) Most likely it will be cheaper in the US Best wishes Thomas I bought mine in a german online store for 199€ all

[LUTE] Re: airs for lute in d minor tuning

2008-01-14 Thread lautenist
Geistlich means sacred regards Thomas Dear Roland, Are you saying that Reusner's arrangements are just accompaniments? That the melody is not there? I like these pieces but don't know anything about them Please excuse my ignorance, but what does 'geistliche' mean in English?

[LUTE] lute festival in Kassel

2007-05-23 Thread lautenist
Dear all, This year's lute festival took place in Kassel in northern Hassia. The lutenists from switzerland already started their travel on Thursday and arrived well in Kassel. It just took it's time to find the Hotel. One would expect the intercity hotel near the central station but finally

[LUTE] Re: O'Dette in Basel

2007-04-23 Thread lautenist
If I should be at home at broadcast time I could tape it. If you should have further details - they would be welcome. BTW: It was very nice to meet again, although the basel lute connection. I haven't seen Eugen Dombois, but Crawford Young, Bob barto, Hoppy Smith, Peter Croton, Anthony Bailes

[LUTE] Ronn McFarlane

2006-11-23 Thread lautenist
Hi all, yesterday I have had the pleasure to listen to a performance by Ronn McFarlane performing his own works on the LSA-Festival this year. Does anybody know if these works are published and if so, where to obtain a copy? All the best Thomas To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: ISO early guitar

2006-11-03 Thread lautenist
Hi, among the greatest instruments I know of are by Bernd Kresse: http://www.kresse-gitarren.de/repro_g.html I personally am playing a marvelous instrument by Renzo Salvador http://www.renzosalvador.be/en/guirom.html (the one at the top is mine) Heidi von Rüden has built very decent instruments

[LUTE] Re: list of great performers

2006-10-19 Thread lautenist
Hi, I would add the Fathers of modern lute playing Walter Gerwig and Michael Schäffer. Best wishes Thomas Anthony Bailes Robert Barto Paul Beier Timothy Burris Michel Cardin Björn Colell Michael Dücker Eduardo Egüez Pierre Gross Jan Grüter Oswald Hebermehl Joachim Held Yasunori Imamura

[LUTE] Re: The last word goes to Sting

2006-10-10 Thread lautenist
Actually I already suggested to my Duo-Partner to start an action A tribute to Sting for lutenists and to perform hits by Police and Sting on Lute(s). I would offer to collect all contributions :) Best wishes Thomas Yesterday Sting was neither off tune nor out of tempo. RT Pheewww! What a

[LUTE] Re: Liuto Forte

2006-07-28 Thread lautenist
Hi, we discussed the Liuto Forte pretty often. take a look at the archives. In short my opinion: The instruments are well built, actually sound like a better guitar with more basses but definitly not like a lute (possibly they are better compared to a Wandervogel-Instrument). My opinion is that

[LUTE] Re: Duets

2006-06-28 Thread lautenist
Here are the concrete files: http://www.gerbode.net/ft2/composers/Lute_ensemble/Anon/ Dear all, I'm in need of some well-known duets. Are there Fronimo files extant for Le Rossignol, Drewries Accords? Thanks in advance! Mathias To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Peter Oljelund

2006-06-26 Thread lautenist
Hi all, does somebody have a valid email address of Peter Oljelund? His telia-address doesn't seem to work anymore. ... All the best Thomas To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Wagner and the lute

2006-06-22 Thread lautenist
There is a piece in a private collection which is written or arranged for Mandora (see Die Laute which gives incipits of the music in the MS). Thomas On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 12:02:00 , Bernd Haegemann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But Hagen and Weiss never wrote for this instrument. Telemann is

[LUTE] Rust/Hagen - a CD review

2006-06-21 Thread lautenist
Hi all, I would like to introduce to you a CD with some of the latest chamber music with the lute which well fits into this (hot) time of the year. Andreas Schlegel (baroque lute) and Myrtha Indermaur (violin) are performing all of the 3 Sonatas for violin and obligate lute by F.W.Rust and two

[LUTE] Re: Lute Festival in Fuessen 2006

2006-05-22 Thread lautenist
Hi all, Wolfgang is right - St.mang was a perfect place for music and everything belonging to the festival. I haven't attended every event because some were paralell to others. For instance Beate Dittmann made an event for children and introduced the lute and Miguel gave lessons. I also

[LUTE] Re: Lute Festival / painting

2006-05-22 Thread lautenist
Dear Donatella, Yes - it's the painting on your page. Frank Legel mentioned that you discovered the painting and identified the piece earlier (so Tony Bailes and Frank Legel could have spared some work - if they knew about it). I don't want to say something wrong (Frank is scientist and *very*

[LUTE] Re: Lute Festival / painting

2006-05-22 Thread lautenist
Hi Donatella, I'll forward your mail or ask Markus to forward it (if I should not find the correct eMail addresses). Vieux Gaultier is called Abbé in a ms. but we don't have evidence he had a any ecclesial function. The idea I got from the lecture is that it possibly depicts a french person

[LUTE] Re: Vallet question

2006-05-15 Thread lautenist
Hi Ed, I just have the edition of the dutch lute society with the facsimiles. But in case you could tell me the details I could look them up and tell you if they are in the original. Anyhow - there ARE tenuto lines in the facsimile, some of which I think are rather an ideal than a real playing

[LUTE] Re: page update

2006-05-15 Thread lautenist
something like I see (watch?) the time passing? The title in spanish is Viendo pasar el tiempo. Perhaps some of you with a good knowledge of both the spanish and english languages can suggest a translation... To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Lute Society of America: Cleveland L:ute Festival 2006.

2006-05-15 Thread lautenist
you know there are rumors that the Dresden court actually just accepted Hasse to get his wife Hasse's compositions need too much elefants and bears and I think the invention of lombardic rhythmns must have impressed JAH the most. Thomas Okay, I'll bite. Why would his music antagonize

[LUTE] email of Rainer aus dem Spring

2006-04-24 Thread lautenist
Hi all, does someone of you has the actual email address of Rainer aus dem Spring? Or Hello Rainer! Are you there? Best regards Thomas To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: 1733 ebay lute for a mere ...

2006-04-07 Thread lautenist
I would tend to think it is a fake. In the late 19th century they often used more or less original labels to increase the value of their fake instruments. The instrument itself very much looks like a wandervogel instrument and as far as I can judge watching the pictures i don't see any parts

[LUTE] Re: The happy camper with her first lute

2006-04-05 Thread lautenist
This sickness is called LAS (Lute Aquireing Syndrom) which is widely spreaded near members of this group ... Thomas d my daughter is such a great fan of the German music of that era! . . . but on the other hand she's still just starting on her Renaissance lute; so why am I so attracted to

[LUTE] Re: Overtly religious ouvre?

2006-03-28 Thread lautenist
Yes - right. But I would rather consider the Regias Pietas as solo music because the melody line indicated by the asterix often does not match the melody of the geneve psalter (if I recall right). Hoping not to tell nonsense Thomas Apart from the 2 books of psalms by Vallet (one with solo

[LUTE] Re: Overtly religious ouvre?

2006-03-28 Thread lautenist
I thought they were (it says so in the introduction of the facsimile, anyway). Fitting the Dathenus psalm texts has never given me any trouble, either. Of course, if you prefer to play them without singing, it's fine, but Vallet has explicitely added the asterixes for sing-along performances.

[LUTE] Re: Overtly religious ouvre?

2006-03-27 Thread lautenist
Hi! There is pretty much sacred music for the lute. as someone already mentioned Cathy Lidell's book gives a nice overview of what existed in the renaissance period - she also included ensemble settings or at least melody lines as basis for one's own ensemble settings. Apart from the 2 books

[LUTE] Re: recording with my notebook..

2006-03-14 Thread lautenist
Hi Wolfgang, the simplest way is to use a software like audacity (freeware) and a microphone. I personally made many recordings that way but the quality very much depends on the quality of the soundcard. In the meantime I am using a MP3/wave-recorder which allows to transfer the recorded data

[LUTE] Re: Music Therapy

2006-01-02 Thread lautenist
It depends on who is playing :-) But seriously I never heard the lute would be used in that context. Although it could be very smoothing ... Happy new year to all of you Thomas It heals me. On Jan 3, 2006, at 5:29 AM, Charles Browne wrote: I gather that the Harp, among other instruments,

[LUTE] Re: lute sighting

2005-11-11 Thread lautenist
My first though was it would be a mandolin but - I've seen (modern) domra which look similar. Would be too big for a mandolin I suppose? Thomas The bridge looks like possibly an ud or an uti or even a mandolin? Given it's non-triangular shape, definitely not a balalaika, and more than likely

[LUTE] AW: lutecast

2005-10-11 Thread lautenist
Hi, yesterday I looked at the lutecast and found the MP3 incredible large - approx. 10 MB. I Haven't listened to the music but performers like Paul Beier surely stand for an exceptional high standard of performance. Best wishes Thomas hi, just found the following news on the page of the

[LUTE] Re: Translation of preface to El Maestro.

2005-09-20 Thread lautenist
Hi, take a look at http://www.jarchow.com/#14-16N Best wishes Thomas Herb-- A peculiarity of that old Spanish printing is the occasional omission of m's and n's (and an accompanying vowel), with a replacement in the form of a bar above the point where they belong. If you've ever

[LUTE] Re: ownership

2005-09-08 Thread lautenist
The one cat surely as living reserve if a string unexpectedly breaks? :-) Thomas I've heard that with cats, but then it only takes one to own you. I have three (lutes that is, only one cat), two eight c. and one six, and a vihuela. Craig To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Lundberg lute for sale

2005-08-22 Thread lautenist
Dear list, I received a mail offering a lute by the late Bob Lundberg. The instrument was built in 1986 but never played due to an accident of the hand of the owner. He now decided to sell it. Price negotiable basis 6500 Euro. Pictures of the instrument can be seen on

[LUTE] AW: Re: V. Galilei

2005-08-17 Thread lautenist
If I recall correctly you will find the complete Il Fronimo on the Fronimo site of Francesco Tribioli. Best wishes Thomas Ariel, My message to you was returned. What is the source? I've forgotten. Do you mean the duet(s?) by B.M. Gentleman? Sakudos, Arthur. - Original Message -