I am looking for the music of some lute songs. They might be consort
songs, they might be madrigals, they might be anything. All I have is
titles (kindly supplied by the soprano ...):
Miserere my maker (Or is it 'Misery my maker?) (Anon.)
Wand`ring in this place (Cavendish)
This Sweet and
Had the same problem recently, moving from .80 to .95 frets and in my
case the remedy consisted of two things:
First, I had to reform the fingerboard a little bit with a scraper so
as to get it a little bit curved (it was actually curved the wrong way
from the 4th fret up...). This might not be
Hi Sterling,
Since nobody else seems to be doing so, I'll chip in here. I assume
you are using gut for the frets - it's less troublesome than nylon in
this respect.
I wonder how sharp the edges of your fingerboard are. If they have a
sharp edge, there's no 'radius' for the
Update after the kind assistance of David Hill:
I am still looking for these:
Madre mia si muero - Anon.
Boėsset - Ennuit, dressoir et douleurs
(The others were in the Turpyn Book and the Faber edition with
Elizabethan lute songs.)
David
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David van Ooijen
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b036ts1w
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Hi-
There was no problem when this lute had just -slightly- smaller frets.
I was hoping there would be some remedy I could do without putting new
frets on as they are quite expensive at this size. I tried loosening a
fret and working it a bit to soften the edge but it wasn't
Hi all,
Does anyone know if Ron Banks of Ft. Worth, Texas is still actively
building instruments? I've seen examples of his works (especially
wire-strung instruments) online and would be interested in receiving
information about a possible commission. Unfortunately, I haven't been
