Hmmmm....... The lute in which i am most immersed in at the moment has 11 courses.
Also, my 13-course lute has 11-courses that are double string. At 08:11 PM 11/10/2011, Sean Smith wrote: >I have a lute whose strings go to eleven but I suppose a lot of people >on this list do. > >s > > >On Nov 10, 2011, at 6:03 PM, howard posner wrote: > >Christopher Stetson wrote: > >>It also has been declared by someone to be Nigel Tufnel Day, after the >>member of Spinal Tap with the special amplifier which "has eleven". > > >For the few who might not know the bit: > >Nigel Tufnel: The numbers all go to eleven. Look, right across the >board, eleven, eleven, eleven and... >Marty DiBergi: Oh, I see. And most amps go up to ten? >Nigel Tufnel: Exactly. >Marty DiBergi: Does that mean it's louder? Is it any louder? >Nigel Tufnel: Well, it's one louder, isn't it? It's not ten. You see, >most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all >the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your >guitar. Where can you go from there? Where? >Marty DiBergi: I don't know. >Nigel Tufnel: Nowhere. Exactly. What we do is, if we need that extra >push over the cliff, you know what we do? >Marty DiBergi: Put it up to eleven. >Nigel Tufnel: Eleven. Exactly. One louder. >Marty DiBergi: Why don't you just make ten louder and make ten be the >top number and make that a little louder? >Nigel Tufnel: [pause] These go to eleven. >-- > >To get on or off this list see list information at >http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > Edward Martin 2817 East 2nd Street Duluth, Minnesota 55812 e-mail: [email protected] voice: (218) 728-1202 http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1660298871&ref=name http://www.myspace.com/edslute http://magnatune.com/artists/edward_martin
