Dear Alan
The Hon. Sec and Editor of FoMHRI, Lewis Jones, London Metropolitan
University, 41-71 Commercial Road, London E1 1LA, U.K. [e-mail:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] may be able to supply you with a copy.
Incidentally, the London Met Uni has a large collection of works on fretted
musical instruments -
The reentrant tuning often provides many ways to produce a particular pitch.
Has anyone analyzed these options to try to discover patterns in the ways in
which Kapsberger assigned such notes?
Richard Yates
JK rarely knew what he was doing...
RT
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Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 14:00:25 -0700
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: PVF gut strings?
At the lute get-together at John Buckman's on June 12th, there was
mention of a new type of string which allegedly
have a look at aquila corde. they make a range of strings in what
they call nylgut - a combination of nylon and pvf.
there's also an aquila usa site.
well made and long lasting products.
- bill
On Mercoledì, lug 7, 2004, at 20:32 Europe/Rome,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
thank you ed and thomas for your comments.
while cruising the net, looking for all things charango, i stumbled
on a group of musicians from the andes who play bach on native, south
american instruments. i doubt that if jsb were to have heard them
perform, he would have stormed out in a huff.
i find the whole hip approach to early music to be something of a
tyranny.
So what do you suggest? Should we give up lutes because you feel tyrannized
by our HIPness?
RT
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Roman M. Turovsky
http://polyhymnion.org/swv
You seem to live in Rome. Do you feel tyrannized because you have to speak
Italian in the street? Do you insist on speaking English everywhere you go?
Or you are willing to learn enough Italian to actually enjoy the culture?
RT
i find the whole hip approach to early music to be something of a
They are called Alliance KF and made by Savarez. I use it for the diapasons
on my theorbo.
It looks quite similar to gut - the fibres are twisted - which could lead to
confusion. My understanding is that they are entirely synthetic.
The material has a higher density than gut so the equivalent
bill killpatrick wrote:
i find the whole hip approach to early music to be something of a
tyranny. if we were to apply it to other disciplines - like painting
or opera, for example - then we wouldn't have verdi's shakespearian
operas or anything much beyond cave drawings.
You don't seem
Not wasted.
-Original Message-
From: Howard Posner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 08, 2004 12:42 AM
To: lute list
Subject: Re: improvisation
[...]
Amazing. I just wasted 250 words justifying historically informed
performance to a bunch of lute players.
Howard
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