Re: Vihuela, charango and armadillos. Long post . Olim Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-17 Thread Arto Wikla
On Tuesday 14 December 2004 17:28, Roman Turovsky wrote: Hålbus Totte Mattson does pagan scandinavian folk-rock on a 13-course baroque lute, but I wouldn't think it advisable to draw a conclusion of a Lappish lutenism from this. There seems to be an old daguerrotype that propably represents

Re: Sape

2004-12-17 Thread Tony Chalkley
Dear Stewart, Doctor Lawrence Picken of Jesus College Cambridge is or maybe was an astounding source of information about instruments and music of the Far East, his rooms housing a small part of what I believe to be a huge collection. This may be a red herring, as I have I feeling that I might

Re: Vihuela, charango and armadillos. Long post . Olim Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
Arto, I am honored by the effort and energy you have put into your research. RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv Hållbus Totte Mattson does pagan scandinavian folk-rock on a 13-course baroque lute, but I wouldn't think it advisable to draw a conclusion of a Lappish

Re: Vihuela, charango and armadillos. Long post . Olim Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-17 Thread Arto Wikla
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004, Roman Turovsky wrote: Arto, I am honored by the effort and energy you have put into your research. RT __ lappish lutenist or something like that, see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/sautsekki.jpg There is more enlightment on the aforementioned

Re: Vihuela, charango and armadillos. Long post . Olim Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
Arto, I am honored by the effort and energy you have put into your research. RT __ lappish lutenist or something like that, see http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/sautsekki.jpg There is more enlightment on the aforementioned daguerrotype: In the middle of the 19th century

Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-17 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 08:24 PM 12/16/2004, Carl Donsbach wrote: After a time I also found a source for gut guitar strings. I found that their rougher texture made it much easier to control the attack. Aquila is now assembling gut sets for 6-string guitar: their Gut Silk set has gut trebles and wound silk

lute by Gorret on ebay

2004-12-17 Thread Walter Durka
dear lute list, there is a lute by John Gorret on ebay. Which is sayed to need a new table. What is ment by that? Would anyone recommend to go into such a project without having seen the instrument? The lute has a strange fingerboard. Is that Hans Frei ?

Re: lute by Gorret on ebay

2004-12-17 Thread Roman Turovsky
dear lute list, there is a lute by John Gorret on ebay. Which is sayed to need a new table. What is ment by that? It needs a new soundboard, as the bridge ripped a hole in it. Would anyone recommend to go into such a project without having seen the instrument? The lute has a strange

Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-17 Thread Carl Donsbach
I think highly of Aquila strings, gut and nylgut, but haven't tried them on my guitar yet. Maybe I'll get around to it next year. -Carl --On Friday, December 17, 2004 11:07 AM -0500 Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 08:24 PM 12/16/2004, Carl Donsbach wrote: After a time I also

Re: El Maestro (Was: Vihuela,....)

2004-12-17 Thread bill kilpatrick
--- Stephan Olbertz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am 16 Dec 2004 um 11:10 hat Alain Veylit geschrieben: By the way, how many lutenists does it take to change a light bulb? Two! One who changes the bulb and one who explains it to the charango player. Stephan easy-peasy: keep its

Re: How many lutenists...

2004-12-17 Thread Alain Veylit
Hi all, Here are the real answers to the question: How many lutenists does it take to change a light bulb? There are two answers, depending on whether you are a Renaissance lutenist, or a Baroque one: Renaissance lutenist: --It takes two: one to change the light bulb, the other to redo it thumb

Food for thought

2004-12-17 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Today I discovered another very detailed article by Segerman on lute sizes, string tension and what it's all about, it's at: http://www.nrinstruments.demon.co.uk/prepub.html Nothing for a quick read-through, though... Regards, Stephan To get on or off this list see list information at

Re: beard

2004-12-17 Thread lutesmith
Barbasol: removing beard hair to create a G string? - Original Message - From: bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 4:15 PM Subject: beard he had the lute he had the flat she felt his chin and that was that ..barbasol!

Re: Beards - conclusion

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Murphy
Count me in the one to three weeks of stubble group, which seems neither here nor there. BTW what number and length of whiskers constitutes a beard? A beard is not a matter of number or length, it is an aesthetic question. Does it have a consistancy, or has it bald spots (with no political

Re: Beards - conclusion

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Murphy
Stewart, a very well done and nice compendium of the various comments. But I reserve the right to make just this night's comments on the thread, as I've been off line a couple of days. Then I accept your choice (and concur with it) to end the thread. Then again I don't have to reserve the right,

Barbasol!

2004-12-17 Thread Jon Murphy
Oh my Bill, you are older than I thought, or just more educated in the mores of our automotive culture of many years ago. he had the lute he had the flat she felt his chin and that was that ..barbasol! A perfect Barbasol set of verses. For the younger Americans, and all the Europeans, I'll

Re: Barbasol!

2004-12-17 Thread bill kilpatrick
dear jon - we're both older than we thought ... it was burma shave. Special seats Reserved in hades For whiskered guys Who scratch The ladies - Burma-Shave --- Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oh my Bill, you are older than I thought, or just more educated in the mores of our automotive