It has to do with -percieved- difficulty rather than -actual- difficulty.
People just assume that the baroque lute must be a horribly difficult and
unfriendly instrument just because it has many strings. And baroque lute
players -love- people to think that. Come on-admit it... I think that was a
Oh well, I just thought of searching specifically for "Fameux
corsaire barbe Barbe Noire", and I found that things are less clear
than I fist thought.
In a text from figaro international, Barbe Noire is constantly called
pirate, " le plus redoutable pirate", but it seems that he started
o
I forgot to say surely it must be Duguay-Trouin.
Anthony
Le 12 janv. 09 à 17:26, Anthony Hind a écrit :
Michel Cardin being both a French speaker and a specialist on
Weiss, of course I bow to his greater knowledge, but wasn't
Blackbeard a pirate, in modern French, Corsair is very much
Pri
Oups the dates don't work. I should have checked. I did not think a
corsair could have been post Weiss.
In that case, it must be the following:
René Duguay-Trouin
René Duguay-Trouin was born in Saint-Malo in 1673, and the son of a
rich ship owner took a fleet of 64 ships and was honoured in
Dear Edward,
Michel Cardin gives two names in his description:
http://www.slweiss.de/London_unv/ge_3Description.pdf
"Of the more than ninety sonatas known to have been composed by Weiss,
only The Infidel and no 22 were given poetic titles. As suggested by
Douglas Alton Smith, the pirate in ques
Resending harp string data without extraneous characters (note to self: do not
cut & paste from excel file)
Regarding harp strings: I contacted Vanderbilt music, in Bloomington, Indiana,
USA - known to harpistsÂ
for quality gut strings and very helpful customer service.Â
They also
Sterling, you are right in saying that more basses make things easier.
At least in some respects: You can play some of the notes with a bass
and doesn't have to stop it.
But as history went on, it seemed that less courses was easier for most
people, else we then would have had more guitars wi
