tungsten film with an amber filter create magnificent subdued colors. A
trick I learned in film industry.
RT
From: "ml" <[email protected]>
not at all... photos came out blue...
El 21/03/2009, a las 22:17, Roman Turovsky escribió:
Did you have an amber filter with you?
RT
----- Original Message ----- From: "ml" <[email protected]>
To: "List LUTELIST" <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2009 5:11 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: frequent re-fretting, a must... was nylon frets
mmmh, yes, Chris, what a story you had with those strings... I am a
professional photographer, not a professional musician, and something
similar happened to me years ago: having to photograph from an
aeroplane, I realized, when already on the air, that I had with me the
wrong film material: artificial light color transparency instead of
natural light color transparency. I made it anyway, of course...
Manolo
El 21/03/2009, a las 17:37, Sean Smith escribió:
Low-tech solution: Candle and dedicated butter knife (I say 'dedicated'
because the blade will discolor and 'butter' because you want the heat
to cut, not the sharpness). Put the handle on a stack of CDs and the
blade over the candle. As the candle burns down remove a CD or two. Be
sure to use a low soot candle --that stuff is pernicious.
Higher tech: Do it in the kitchen w/ the blade over a stove burner and
the burner on the lowest setting.
"[email protected]"grade Hi-tech: Soldering iron.
Sean
On Mar 21, 2009, at 9:21 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Manolo,
I'm bad. Very bad. I _hate_ changing frets! Makes me break out in
a cold sweat, hives and diarrhea every time, it makes me so nervous.
I'd rather clean out a backed-up sewage pipe in a tuxedo than put new
frets on even though it definitely sounds and feels better when I do.
This might have something to do with the fact that I once had a couple
of otherwise fine bass strings unexpectedly snap on my theorbo as I
was using a lighter to finish the fret knot. Of course, it happened
right before a recording session. This, despite the fact that I was
bending back the strings quite far away from the small flame. There's
a nice extra bill for you! ..and a theorbo that was useless until I
could get new strings since I don't keep a stash of low diapasons on
hand. (Any of those guys we order strings from are always sooo
agonizingly slow getting strings out to us.)
Then there was the time I recently had to put new frets on a student's
lute. In a tiny college practice room. With a smoke detector. Using
someone's borrowed matches. I was sure I was going to set the fire
alarm and sprinklers off and ruin everybody's $400,000 violins and
cellos.
Chris
--- On Sat, 3/21/09, ml <[email protected]> wrote:
From: ml <[email protected]>
Subject: [LUTE] Re: frequent re-fretting, a must... was nylon frets
To: "List LUTELIST" <[email protected]>
Date: Saturday, March 21, 2009, 7:44 AM
I would avoid using nylon for fretting.
A 6 c. lute I used to have had them, the builder himself
did it. When I changed to gut the sound changed for good.
Let's say that it sounded less bad with gut then with
nylon, all other things being the same.
OK, nylon frets last forever, but this is a minor benefit,
because changing gut frets is not difficult at all, perhaps
only the 1st. I've seen it so often: a lute with new
frets has a much better sound! Strange, how we can be so
lousy, and not change frets more frequently...
But perhaps this was said to you already by others in this
list.
Manolo
El 21/03/2009, a las 12:13, Omer Katzir escribió:
For the past two hours I've replaced the frets in
my lute for a nylon frets, old b string for guitar.
It took some time, and I replaced only four for now
(my hands hurts) but at least in know how to handle that.
Now, from the front It doesn't looks very weird,
just a neck with frets. in the back, it doesn't look
really good. I have to use pieces of tape to stretch the
fret. But its not soooo bad...I think I can handle that...at
least until May.
Thank you everybody!
I will supply pictures if you want :-)
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