Informed Performance' it is
clearly daft to ignore historic precedent and practice.
MH
--- On Mon, 16/2/09, howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote:
From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale
To: lutelist
--- On Tue, 17/2/09, Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
From: Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for
sale
To: David Rastall dlu...@verizon.net
Date: Tuesday, 17 February, 2009, 8:30 AM
On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:37 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
If we have any pretensions to 'Historically Informed Performance'
Do you think we're all being pretentious?
it is
clearly daft to ignore historic precedent and practice.
It's impossible to be 100% historical about anything. Besides,
Pretension: justifiable claim (OED).
--- On Tue, 17/2/09, David Rastall dlu...@verizon.net wrote:
From: David Rastall dlu...@verizon.net
Subject: Re: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for
sale
To: hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk
Cc: lutelist Net lute
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Martyn Hodgson
hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
However, for mysterious reasons, some modern players string small
theorboes with low octaves on the second course even when wholly
unnecessary at the pitch in which they play.
If we have any pretensions to
On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:32 AM, William Brohinsky wrote:
Is it somehow illegal to play music for long theorbos on short
theorbos? If you wish to play the music of Kapsberger or Piccininni,
but cannot afford to buy (or cannot manage to borrow) a theorbo longer
than some criteria (which hasn't
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale
On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:32 AM, William Brohinsky wrote:
Is it somehow illegal to play music for long theorbos on short
theorbos? If you wish to play the music of Kapsberger or Piccininni,
but cannot afford to buy (or cannot manage
: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale
On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 3:37 AM, Martyn Hodgson
hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
However, for mysterious reasons, some modern players string small
theorboes with low octaves on the second course even when wholly
unnecessary
On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:29 AM, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
Pretension: justifiable claim (OED).
I'll take that as a no to my question.
Martyn, I'm not entirely sure what your justification is for
advocating large theorbos only. I realize that this has been
discussed on the list before, but as I
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale
On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:32 AM, William Brohinsky wrote:
Is it somehow illegal
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On Feb 17, 2009, at 10:32 AM, William Brohinsky wrote:
Is it somehow illegal to play music for long
On Feb 17, 2009, at 3:19 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote:
To be fair to Martyn, he is merely using one of the fundamentals of
historical lute stringing, the highest string is tuned to the
highest pitch
that is possible with the thinnest useable string.
Fair enough. When they started making the big
] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale
Dear Arto and all,
After the brief discussion about theorbo prices, I looked around for
of other makers prices to reevaluate the worth of my theorbo by Nico
van der Waals I am currently offering for sale for 7900€ (original
price was 8250€ back
, February 15, 2009 4:31 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale
Dear Arto and all,
After the brief discussion about theorbo prices, I looked around for
of other makers prices to reevaluate the worth of my theorbo by Nico
van der Waals I am currently offering for sale
Dear Howard,
What do you mean by TOY theorbo?
Have you seen the pictures? Do you think Nico van der Waals will ever
make a TOY instrument?
Sorry. I don't get it.
Greetings,
Alfonso
On Feb 15, 2009, at 7:18 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Feb 15, 2009, at 4:31 AM, Alfonso Marin wrote:
I
!) which do, indeed, require both courses to be lowered the
octave.
MH
--- On Mon, 16/2/09, howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com wrote:
From: howard posner howardpos...@ca.rr.com
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Theorbo by Nic. Nic. B. van der Waals for sale
To: lutelist Net lute
Martyn,
--- On Mon, 2/16/09, Martyn Hodgson hodgsonmar...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Why some
players do it is a
mystery; although, of course, the use of modern
overwpound strings (if
you like them) allows a fairly strong bass even with a
small fingered
string length.
I currently have
On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:50 AM, chriswi...@yahoo.com wrote:
I currently have plain gut on my A-tuned 76cm theorbo.
Is that what you were using on the Hurel recording?
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On Feb 16, 2009, at 12:10 PM, howard posner wrote:
As far as I can
tell, if Martyn thought about such things, he would say my theorbo is
a toy at A92, definitely not a toy at AD0, and probably not a toy
at AA5, before realizing that there
On Feb 16, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
A small theorbo is called a 'toy' theorbo when, because of its
relatively small size
As I recall, toy is your own appellation, rather than some general
historical definition.
which only really requires the first course to be
at the
Dear Arto and all,
After the brief discussion about theorbo prices, I looked around for
of other makers prices to reevaluate the worth of my theorbo by Nico
van der Waals I am currently offering for sale for 7900€ (original
price was 8250€ back in 2002). I am now certain that my asking
Seems fair to me, Alfonso. Everything is expensive, but your asking
price is fair.
Rob
2009/2/15 Alfonso Marin [1]luten...@gmail.com
Dear Arto and all,
After the brief discussion about theorbo prices, I looked around for
of other makers prices to reevaluate the
Dear Alonso et al.
On 2/15/2009, Alfonso Marin luten...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
I know that Arto did not want to suggest that my theorbo was too
expensive but in an indirect way he actually did. For that reason I
feel compelled to defend myself and demonstrate the fairness of my
asking
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 3:04 AM, sterling price spiffys84...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi-I have often wondered about van der Waals, like is he still building and
where? Does he still take orders?
Nico is still going strong, moved to Germany recently and is still
taking orders. A pupil of mine just
On 2/13/2009, Alfonso Marin luten...@gmail.com wrote:
I am offering my Theorbo by NIco van der Waals for sale.
..
Selling price is 7900 .
The instrument really looks very beautiful!
But is this really the price level of today? 7800 euros for a quality
theorbo?
In that case I am a rich
Dear Arto,
Nico van der Waals is an emblematic maker with a reputation as solid
as Michael Lowe. I payed 8250 Euro for this theorbo back in 2002. You
certainly can get cheaper instruments but if you are really interested
on playing something really special by one of the pioneers of lute
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