Dear friends, now there has been so much talk about photos/pictures of some system of "easy chromatic basses" and not a single link to any public photo/picture. Even when I am _not at all_ interested in using any mechanism for that, I am utterly interested in seeing, what you are talking about... ;-)
So: jpg's, pdf's, ..., whatsoever, please! :-) Arto On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 21:46:13 +0200, "Grzegorz Joachimiak" <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear friends, > > this photo surely is in JLSA (1979) vol. 12: The Resurrection of the > Lute in Twentieth Century Germeny by Kurt Rottmann, pp. 67-72. I have > this article. Let me know who needs this text I would send to private > e-mail box. > > Grzegorz > > > Dnia 8-10-2010 o godz. 19:11 sterling price napisał(a): >> Well I found the photo of Hans Neeman and his semi-tone device. I >> scanned it so >> if anyone wants to see it let me know. Still not sure where I copied it >> from... >> >> Sterling >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: sterling price <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 8:07:20 AM >> Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] Re: New Semi-Tone Device >> >> Some more info about the semi tone device. >> The base is made of maple stained black. The nut is lignum vitae as well >> a the >> smaller nut which actually raises or 'frets' the course. >> Hide glue is used. >> Also I am looking for the photo I have of Hans Neeman. I think it was >> from an >> old LSA quarterly or journal. Does anyone know which one? >> Sterling >> >> >> >> ----- Original Message ---- >> From: sterling price <[email protected]> >> To: [email protected] >> Sent: Fri, October 8, 2010 5:30:25 AM >> Subject: [BAROQUE-LUTE] New Semi-Tone Device >> >> Dear all-- >> >> I have just created a new semi-tone device for a Jauck type baroque >> lute. This >> allows me to change the pitch of bass strings by a half step without >> tuning. I >> can go from say e-flat minor to A-major in just a few seconds with >> complete >> stability. >> >> A similar semi-tone device is seen on the 1732 lute by J.H. >> Goldt,(formerly >> in the V&A) of course I don't know when it was added. Also Hans Neeman >> and his >> associates used semi-tone devices on all their baroque lutes including >> bass >> rider lutes in the 1930s. (This I know from a photograph of Neeman and >> his >> lutes). >> If anyone is interested I can send pics of my new device. >> >> Sterling >> >> >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
