[LUTE] Re: Tuner for android
Airyware Tuner is good... On Wed, 2020-01-29 at 18:26 +0100, Anthony Hart wrote: >Can anyone suggest a tuner app. I have used Cleartune on my iPad but >the reviews for the update are not good. >Thanks >Anthony > >-- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Vivaldi Lute Concerto
Hello Edward, I made a quick tab of that concerto for Ren. Lute; if you still need it, I can send it to you -once I've found it... All the Best Michael Vollbrecht On Thu, 2019-04-11 at 16:39 +0800, Edward C. Yong wrote: > Dear Lute Collective, > > Would anyone have the Vivadi Lute Concerto in D major RV 93 in tablature for > G tuning? > > Thank you in advance from Singapore! > > Edward C. Yong > > > > τούτο ηλεκτρονικόν ταχυδρομείον εκ είΦωνου εμεύ επέμφθη. > Hæ litteræ electronicæ ab iPhono missæ sunt. > 此電子郵件發送于自吾iPhone。 > This e-mail was sent from my iPhone. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Big Fret Help
Well, you could move down all frets towards the nut - this should give you room to adjust the neck to whatever is needed from the 2nd fret up. Then put all frets in place except the first and finish on this first position. Best, Michael On Tue, 2013-07-16 at 18:08 -0700, sterling price wrote: Hi- There was no problem when this lute had just -slightly- smaller frets. I was hoping there would be some remedy I could do without putting new frets on as they are quite expensive at this size. I tried loosening a fret and working it a bit to soften the edge but it wasn't successful. I might try a few other things though. As RE the high action of this lute, I have the same plan that I think Larry K Brown worked from (its the J.J Edlinger 1732 13 course). Anyway, the neck angle and enormous belly scoop/dish shown on the plan result in a high action. I realize that this feature need not be utilized in the copy lute though. --Sterling __ From: Michael Vollbrecht mollbre...@gmail.com To: sterling price spiffys84...@yahoo.com Cc: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 3:22 AM Subject: Re: [LUTE] Big Fret Help Had the same problem recently, moving from .80 to .95 frets and in my case the remedy consisted of two things: First, I had to reform the fingerboard a little bit with a scraper so as to get it a little bit curved (it was actually curved the wrong way from the 4th fret up...). This might not be necessary in your case, just check with a metal ruler. Then you need a VERY smooth round fingerboard edge - if the radious is too smaall the fret is lifted up from the board: a bit more scraping and finishing touch with some sanding did it for me. If your lute neck is veneered (like mine) however, be careful when rounding the edge - you can easily work through this thin layer... In addition to all this, I wrapped the fret gut a couple of times around a long needle nose plier, mostly the part for the knot and where the edgdes would come: this makes the gut much more flexible, the knot is easier to tie and the gut follows the edge much more smoothly. Hope this helps! Michael On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 15:29 -0700, sterling price wrote: Hi all-- I recently changed the frets on my baroque lute (after many years of service). I went up from 1.10 mm to 1.20 mm on all frets. The problem I am having is there are a few frets that are not sitting all the way flat under the first course so it has a 'choked' sound on some notes. I know this wouldn't happen if the fingerboard was more curved or if I used smaller frets(not an option). Any advice on how to get these big frets to stay flat would be great. And yes they are very tight. Thanks, Sterling -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: Big Fret Help
Had the same problem recently, moving from .80 to .95 frets and in my case the remedy consisted of two things: First, I had to reform the fingerboard a little bit with a scraper so as to get it a little bit curved (it was actually curved the wrong way from the 4th fret up...). This might not be necessary in your case, just check with a metal ruler. Then you need a VERY smooth round fingerboard edge - if the radious is too smaall the fret is lifted up from the board: a bit more scraping and finishing touch with some sanding did it for me. If your lute neck is veneered (like mine) however, be careful when rounding the edge - you can easily work through this thin layer... In addition to all this, I wrapped the fret gut a couple of times around a long needle nose plier, mostly the part for the knot and where the edgdes would come: this makes the gut much more flexible, the knot is easier to tie and the gut follows the edge much more smoothly. Hope this helps! Michael On Mon, 2013-07-15 at 15:29 -0700, sterling price wrote: Hi all-- I recently changed the frets on my baroque lute (after many years of service). I went up from 1.10 mm to 1.20 mm on all frets. The problem I am having is there are a few frets that are not sitting all the way flat under the first course so it has a 'choked' sound on some notes. I know this wouldn't happen if the fingerboard was more curved or if I used smaller frets(not an option). Any advice on how to get these big frets to stay flat would be great. And yes they are very tight. Thanks, Sterling -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[LUTE] Re: How to distinguish carbon from nylon.
A fairly quick way of distinguishing FK from Nylon is holding one end of the string near a flame and observe how it melts: Ny forms a yellowish ball end whilst FK only gets to form a mushroom (similar to a mushroom screw head). Ongoing heat will grow the ball end and lead to dripping with nylon and the FK mushroom will just carbonise... Michael -Original Message- From: William Brohinsky tiorbin...@gmail.com To: Lex van Sante lvansa...@gmail.com Cc: lute mailing list list lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: How to distinguish carbon from nylon. Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2012 19:01:09 -0400 I am no expert on plastic strings, nor am I a degreed chemical engineer. I have had a six-month romp through carbon chemistry at work, and can suggest a few things. First, Nylon and 'Carbon' strings are both carbon, since carbon is the major constituent. Nylon used for strings, identified by Mimmo, is Nylon 6,12 (also called Nylon612). It is a long-chain carbon molecule which is usually made by breaking a carbon ring and linking the ends to other broken carbon rings. The result are very long molecule-scale chains which connect to each other to provide good longitudinal strength. The particular characteristics of Nylon 612, as noted, are flexibility and resistance to moisture. carbon strings/fishline is also a long-chain carbon molecule with Fluorine atoms bound in. Technically, these strings are Fluorocarbon, which gives a clue for why the FK nomenclature. Fluorine is extremely reactive, and once bound into a carbon chain, it holds tightly. This reduces the ability of the chain to react to or bond to other molecules (like water) and makes it very hard to tear the chains apart. The result is that fluorocarbon strings have much higher strength, greater moisture resistance, are somewhat stiffer, and can be made thinner for the same strength. Because they are so non-reactive, Fluorocarbons are the darling of the chemical industry, since containers and tubing and structures made from such fluorocarbons as Teflon and Delrin can withstand attack from all but the most active acids and bases. The key interest in FK fishing line is for leaders: The short lengths make the stiffness less of a problem and the index of refraction and transparency of the material causes it to essentially become invisible in water. That makes it harder for fish to see the line, and easier for the angler to fool the fish into thinking that that tasty bit of bait has no strings attached. That suggests that you could tell nylon strings apart from fluorocarbon strings by sticking a short length into water and observing how visible they remain. While the FK strings may not entirely disappear, they should be considerably more transparent than the Nylon in water, where the opaqueness and index-mismatch at the surface will make Nylon easy to see. Having said all this, I will say that I'm glad I am not a chemist. (even though I am fascinated with the similarity of molecular shape of dyes, stabilizers, micro-biotics, solvents, and polyamides used in modern Ink and ink-handling to all those lovely organic carbon molecules that keep life percolating: amino acids, enzymes, peptides (the organic biologist's term for amides), etc. I will never look at a bottle of Benzene the same way again... William On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 9:11 AM, Lex van Sante [1]lvansa...@gmail.com wrote: Nylon tends to be a bit more opaque than carbon but this really only shows with thicker strings. Best advice is: put it on your lute see what note you get with a certain tension. Compare to other strings of same note and tension and the thinner string will be the carbon. BTW there seem to be many types of string which are all being traded as carbon. The KF strings of Savarez are a different kind of string in comparison with for instance the PVF strings of Kuerschner which are different from the Seagur japanese fishing line which really was the first carbon string that hit the market. I remember Toyohiko Satoh importing those into Europe in the eighties. Naoki Fugii later sold these strings too. Anyway all these so called Carbon strings are heavier than Nylon so they are thinner for a given note and tension. Hope this helps. Op 3 nov 2012, om 13:43 heeft Herbert Ward het volgende geschreven: Is is possible to distinguish reliably between carbon and nylon if the string's packaging is not available? I've seen a knowledgeable person rub the string, but I don't know whether he was listening to the sound, feeling the texture, or judging some other aspect. To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:lvansa...@gmail.com 2.
[LUTE] Re: tuning software?
Hello to all! I can highly recommend AP-Tuner: http://www.aptuner.com/cgi-bin/aptuner/apmain.html Shareware, runs on windows and under wine. Can be configuered for any instrument, temperaments, calibrated, stretch table, transposing... All the best, Michael -Original Message- From: David Tayler vidan...@sbcglobal.net To: lute lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: tuning software? Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 00:45:47 -0800 (PST) This looks kind of cool [1]http://www.musicmasterworks.com/tuning_software.html __ From: David Tayler vidan...@sbcglobal.net To: lute lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wed, February 1, 2012 12:42:25 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: tuning software? I recommend the horribly named android app GStrings. Mulititemperament multifunction with many programmable features. OK, it isn't windows, sorry. Sequoia has a built in tuner but I like the android app. Or a dedicated strobe. __ From: Ed Durbrow [2]edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp To: David van Ooijen [3]davidvanooi...@gmail.com; LuteNet list [4]lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Mon, January 30, 2012 7:22:44 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: tuning software? The tuner in Logic (OSX) seems pretty good. There is Tuna Pitch, app and widget, which I just tried and seems to work well, also Mac. On Jan 30, 2012, at 1:41 AM, David van Ooijen wrote: Does anybody use tuning software for Windows and/or Mac, and if so, any feedback on the software used? Ed Durbrow Saitama, Japan [1][1][5]http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch [2][2][6]http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ [3][3][7]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ -- References 1. [4][8]http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch 2. [5][9]http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ 3. [6][10]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ To get on or off this list see list information at [7][11]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. [12]http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch 2. [13]http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ 3. [14]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ 4. [15]http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch 5. [16]http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ 6. [17]http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ 7. [18]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.musicmasterworks.com/tuning_software.html 2. mailto:edurb...@sea.plala.or.jp 3. mailto:davidvanooi...@gmail.com 4. mailto:lute@cs.dartmouth.edu 5. http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch 6. http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ 7. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ 8. http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch 9. http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ 10. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ 11. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html 12. http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch 13. http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ 14. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ 15. http://www.youtube.com/user/edurbrow?feature=watch 16. http://www.musicianspage.com/musicians/9688/ 17. http://www9.plala.or.jp/edurbrow/ 18. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/%7Ewbc/lute-admin/index.html
