@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 23:19
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Very cool! I stand in shame at my arrogance... I found the stuff a
misery, actually, and as for the reversal properties I tended to do
more damage than good. I got to where I just planed
for your lungs, it works great!
Garry
From: [1]sterling price
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 5:50 PM
To: [2]Garry Warber ; [3]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Hi-- I have glued ribs and all the other parts of a lute with hide glue
too. I do know
trivial.
--Sterling
From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com
To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 10:39 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?damping
This discussion would make a lot more sense if posters explained what
gut is being compared
As any good luthier will tell you today, hide glue is still superior to
modern glue for several reasons.
--Sterling
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Or, As I enjoy assuming, the old ones used the best they had, and if
they'd had epoxy glue and nylon strings that's what they'd
price spiffys84...@yahoo.com
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?damping
To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2011, 2:21 AM
Hi-
Even with gut strings on say a baroque
lute it is still good to damp
the strings, otherwise it sounds messy.
Also just
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Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
As any good luthier will tell you today, hide glue is still superior to modern
glue for several reasons.
--Sterling
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Or, As I enjoy assuming, the old ones used the best they had, and if
they'd had epoxy glue
website -
[1]http://www.vanedwards.co.uk/fretknot.htm
Bill
From: sterling price spiffys84...@yahoo.com
To: Garry Warber garrywar...@hughes.net; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 7:30
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
As any good
routinely, though of course it is likely to
damage a polished surface it the alcohol gets onto it.
Bill
From: Garry Warber garrywar...@hughes.net
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 12:31
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings
Yes, regular old rubbing alcohol mix and a bit of heat is the standard joint
softener.
-Original Message-
From: William Samson
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 8:33 AM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
I know that some top lute makers (and by 'top' I
To: Garry Warber; lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
As any good luthier will tell you today, hide glue is still superior to
modern glue for several reasons.
--Sterling
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Or, As I enjoy assuming, the old ones used the best
From: sterling price
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:30 AM
To: Garry Warber ; [1]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
As any good luthier will tell you today, hide glue is still superior to
modern glue for several reasons.
--Sterling
Subject: [LUTE
@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Hi-- I have glued ribs and all the other parts of a lute with hide glue
too. I do know there are some places for titebond such as when carving
the rose and a piece breaks, or making the mold...
Sterling
But Sterling... I'm
On 30 August 2011 10:27, andy butler akbut...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Beginner's questions.
Is the superiority of gut down to the shorter sustain time
that someone mentioned earlier?
Is string damping really unpopular? (unnecessary?)
No such thing as a beginner's question.
Superiority is not
On 30 August 2011 10:38, David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com wrote:
imprefect in many ways.
As is my spelling ...
[On] another level, their imperfectiong
.. and my grammar.
David - doing something else in the mean time, no multi-tasking for me
--
***
I agree with David. However, from the dimmest corner of my memory bank,
I think Mersenne (or someone else!) indicated the bass strings should
have a sustain of 20 or so heartbeats [forgive me if I am getting this
all wrong!]. How long that might be depends on whether you are playing
, 30/8/11, andy butler akbut...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
From: andy butler akbut...@tiscali.co.uk
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Tuesday, 30 August, 2011, 9:27
David van Ooijen wrote:
The basses are shortish, so a higher tuning would
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 7:01 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
The superiority of gut is chiefly that it was the material used by the
Old Ones. If we have any pretensions to attempting to reproduce the
sounds these early lutenist composers expected and their auditors
heard
...@tiscali.co.uk
Sent: Tuesday, 30 August 2011, 12:27
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
There is a great likelihood that our gut is rather acoustically
different
from their.
Lets not forget to use the honest modifier approximation of.
RT
- Original Message -
From: Martyn
the difference (even on some recordings...)
I have heard Paul O'Dette in a recital with nylgut strings and his playing
was divine...
V.
-Message d'origine-
De : lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] De la part
de William Samson
Objet : [LUTE] Re: long strings?
I agree
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
There is a great likelihood that our gut is rather acoustically different
from their.
Lets not forget to use the honest modifier approximation of.
RT
- Original Message -
From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu; andy
Reminds me of the cover to this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Your-Accomplishments-Suspiciously-Hard-Verify/dp/1449401023
Chris
--- On Tue, 8/30/11, Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
To: lute
if they convinced me of merit via beautiful sound.
Eugene
-Original Message-
From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
Behalf Of Garry Warber
Sent: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 8:04 AM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Or, As I enjoy
This discussion would make a lot more sense if posters explained what gut is
being compared to. In some cases, it's overwound strings, and in others, it's
plain nylon.
On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:00 AM, andy butler wrote:
Are there any players who reckon that damping is essential?
Tympanists,
On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:45 AM, Rob MacKillop wrote:
However, from the dimmest corner of my memory bank,
I think Mersenne (or someone else!) indicated the bass strings should
have a sustain of 20 or so heartbeats [forgive me if I am getting this
all wrong!]. How long that might be depends
]www.christopherwilke.com
--- On Tue, 8/30/11, David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com
wrote:
From: David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
To: andy butler akbut...@tiscali.co.uk
Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Date: Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Warber
Gesendet: Montag, 29. August 2011 06:16
An: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Betreff: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Correct to you... :-) What I play in the privacy of my own home is my
business.
Now I have to deal with lute-string police too? Grammar police I'm used
to... :-)
Garry
-Original
Curiously, the small seems to be set up for 1x1, 5x2 on the fingerboard:
http://quality1trader.co.uk/musical-instrument/strings/lute/theorbo-bass-lute/
Their instrument descriptions appear to be cut and pasted from the
Barber Harris website. their string lengths for the small and medium
On 29 August 2011 10:41, Edward C. Yong ky...@pacific.net.sg wrote:
guitars, but tiorbini and chittare attiorbate as well? I was under the
It's my guess that they happen to have drawings of these instruments
without really knowing what they are. Calling them theorbos can be a
bit of a
Their tiorbino (Theorbo Bass Lute small ...) has (Stephen and Sandi's)
description of the theorbood guitar (Theorbo Bass Lute medium). It
even comes with Fontanelli's music!
David - enough of this nonsense, back to work
--
***
David van Ooijen
I suppose you're talking about this:
http://quality1trader.co.uk/musical-instrument/strings/lute/theorbo-bass-lut
e-
medium/
You can watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNJaYInbbhs
Mathias
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From: Mathias Rösel
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 4:14 AM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Garry,
Do as you please and mind your bizz. Everybody does, me included. I have gut
strings for basses because I like their short impulse and their quick
fading. I don't
@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
I suppose you're talking about this:
http://quality1trader.co.uk/musical-instrument/strings/lute/theorbo-bass-lut
e-
medium/
You can watch it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNJaYInbbhs
Mathias
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depends
upon which expert is looking at it... :-)
Garry
-Original Message-
From: David van Ooijen
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 5:21 AM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Their tiorbino (Theorbo Bass Lute small ...) has (Stephen and Sandi's)
description
. This stuff greatly depends
upon which expert is looking at it... :-)
Garry
-Original Message- From: David van Ooijen
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 5:21 AM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
Their tiorbino (Theorbo Bass Lute small ...) has (Stephen
, because it
required some... But, it PLAYS AND SOUNDS good. Sorry for the caps, I read
that's shouting on the web; I hope your hearing wasn't damaged... :-)
Garry
-Original Message-
From: David van Ooijen
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 12:43 PM
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Re
.
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From: David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Monday, August 29, 2011 9:43:50 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
The point is, it has only five courses on the fingerboard. Playing any
kind of lute or theorbo music
: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
The point is, it has only five courses on the fingerboard. Playing any
kind of lute or theorbo music on it would mean redrilling the bridge
to accomodate six, hazardous enough on a 'decent' instrument, but I'm
not sure this one will be up to it.
David
On 29 August
I'm thinking theorbo purchase... Where does one get a nylon theorbo
14-course string set? I measured my 8-course lute strings, which went
from 100cm to 110cm; obliviously too short... Please, no you must use
gut(!) nonsense.
That's correct, it isn't nonsense.
Mathias
To
On Aug 28, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Garry Warber wrote:
I'm thinking theorbo purchase... Where does one get a nylon theorbo
14-course string set?
Never mind the strings; where did you find a nylon theorbo?
I measured my 8-course lute strings, which went
from 100cm to 110cm; obliviously too
Has anyone done business Chris Henriksen/Boston Catlines lately? I
was once very satisfied dealing with him, but I don't think I've
actually bought any strings in this century, and now that I finally
need new ones, I feel like a string virgin again.
I buy strings from him all
Hi Garry,
Bernd Kuerschner has nylon strings up to 180cm.
As well as carbon(pvf) and gut
More info at www.kuerschner-saiten.de
Cheers
Op 28 aug 2011, om 23:29 heeft Garry Warber het volgende geschreven:
I'm thinking theorbo purchase... Where does one get a nylon theorbo
14-course
To: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 2:52:02 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
On Aug 28, 2011, at 2:29 PM, Garry Warber wrote:
I'm thinking theorbo purchase... Where does one get a nylon theorbo
14-course string set?
Never mind the strings
: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
I'm thinking theorbo purchase... Where does one get a nylon theorbo
14-course string set? I measured my 8-course lute strings, which went
from 100cm to 110cm; obliviously too short... Please, no you must use
gut(!) nonsense.
That's correct, it isn't
be in
order.
Garry
-Original Message-
From: dwinh...@comcast.net
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 10:19 PM
To: howard posner
Cc: Lute List
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
I also very highly recommend Chris Henriksen of Boston Catlines. Have
fun, don't go too broke.
Dan
To get
, 2011 1:17 AM
To: Lute List
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings?
On Aug 28, 2011, at 9:11 PM, Garry Warber wrote:
You can find anything on eBay now -a-days... :-)
Garry
-Original Message- From: howard posner
Sent: Sunday, August 28, 2011 5:52 PM
To: Lute List
Subject: [LUTE] Re: long strings
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