I recall bringing some silk strings from Singapore to the LSA Seminar in 1987 and Grant Tomlinson and others were not impressed on a lute and ren. Guitar. Maybe on a viol they would be better. r
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of alexander Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 4:20 PM To: lutelist Net Subject: [LUTE] Re: silk string sighting Hardly a fun fact... A work of fiction... Alexander - back to silk (and peanuts). > > On Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:49:37 +0100 > David van Ooijen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Giles Milton > > 'Samurai William' > > (Hodder and Stoughton, 2002) > > > > William Keeling, captain on a ship in a fleet sailing from England > > to the East in 1615, send to Sir Thomas Roe, first British > > Ambassador in India and aboard one of the other ships, a sheep, 100 > > Weymouth oysters and some silk strings for his viol. Sir Thomas was > > pleased, as he send captain Keeling a set of six Italian madrigals in return. > > > > The book is not great literature, I believe Giles Milton received > > some fame with a previous book "Nathaniel's Nutmeg", but the facts > > seem to be well researched. There is a list of sources, for those interested. > > > > David - back to gut (and oyters!) > > > > > > -- > > ******************************* > > David van Ooijen > > [email protected] > > www.davidvanooijen.nl > > ******************************* > > > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
