It depends much of the diameter of the strings. I would recommend to try
ths string calculator by Paul Beyer (to be found on
http://www.lautenist.de) or to order strings by Matthias Wagner who will
be glad to find the right strings for your instrument.
Thomas
Am Sam, 2004-04-03 um 07.52 schrieb
I just noticed that Howard Mayer Brown's personal library of some 3500
volumes is for sale on [1]www.abebooks.com. Asking price is $125,000.
Would love to have that library. I have to go buy a lottery ticket.
Gary Digman
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Hi,
I've copied the 20 seconds of lute playing in Thick as a brick on
http://www.tslaute.de/mp3/Thick_Lute.mp3 (approx. 300kb).
Thomas
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Be careful, lest the action goes up.
RT
Thanks to everyone who responded. The lute is now tuned to G , is stable,
and sounds much better then when it was tuned to E.
I do, however, feel silly. I should have thought of tuning it up some years
ago, but at that point I was using cheap
relieved to discover that this is a preoccupation for professionals as
well.
i have a charango which i play with an early oud tuning of g-a-d-g-c.
would anyone care to suggest an alternative? the length from nut to
bridge is 37 cm.
second question:
i can't seem to find the recommended
Gary:
Well, it might be interesting, but he bequeathed all the really valuable
things to the Newberry Library. This is probably the stuff they didn't
want.
Daniel Heiman
On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 04:01:58 -0500 Gary Digman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
I just noticed that Howard Mayer Brown's
Thanks for your comments. I suspected so much, and that was partly my
point: there's so much out there brimming with a genius not necessarily
contained within a name. Which is not to reduce composers to their
environments (as Harold Bloom tirelessly argues, Shakespeare inhabited
the same London
Dear Bill:
I would tune the charango as I've tuned my gittern, like the top five
strings of a descant lute (from lowest course): G-C-E-A-D.
This would serve best for chord shapes as we know them and for playing
melodies. If you're looking for a medieval drone sound you might try
something
Yet another feature has been added to the LSA Lute Festival in Cleveland
(June 27 - July 2, 2004):
The New York Historical Dance Company, consisting of Dorothy Olsson (New
York) and Kaspar Mainz (from the Leipzig vicinity) will join in the Lute Festival
to perform early dance:
A special
Shakespeare inhabited
the same London as the legion scribblers beside him), but it frees us a
little from the cult of the solitary artist.
To what? a cult of Collective Effort?
RT
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http://turovsky.org
http://polyhymnion.org
dear james -
that works quite well, thank you. lots of room for melody, the few
chords i tried weren't that difficult to figure out and (i think)
there's a wider access to keys.
the conventional charango tuning gets on my nerves; too plinky-plink
and whatever i played with it was constantly
Shakespeare inhabited
the same London as the legion scribblers beside him), but it frees us a
little from the cult of the solitary artist.
To what? a cult of Collective Effort?
But who cares? Jimi Hendrix was living in the same house, where Händel
was living in 1700's, when Hendrix
Shakespeare inhabited
the same London as the legion scribblers beside him), but it frees us a
little from the cult of the solitary artist.
To what? a cult of Collective Effort?
But who cares? Jimi Hendrix was living in the same house, where Händel
was living in 1700's, when Hendrix visited
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Roman Turovsky wrote:
Shakespeare inhabited
the same London as the legion scribblers beside him), but it frees us a
little from the cult of the solitary artist.
To what? a cult of Collective Effort?
But who cares? Jimi Hendrix was living in the same house, where
On Sat, 3 Apr 2004, Roman Turovsky wrote:
What is a lime and what is a scurvy? Once again I did not get your
(possible?) message! You should use easier English, if you wish to be
understood also in the non English speaking Europe! (Yes, I do know the
word lime, a certain type of tree
Arto Wikla at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That was an interesting sound clip indeed!
But was it really a lute? At least at the end of the clip,
there clearly was an 12-string guitar mixed to the lute
sound!
It's Ian Anderson's six-string with a capo on the third fret, playing along
with the
Roman Turovsky wrote:
But what really is your attitude to the music of J. Hendrix?
I have a rather dim 25 year old memory of his music, but I could never
figure out what was the big deal about him.
Miles Davis was suppossed to have recorded with Jimi, but unfortunately,
the Isle of Wight
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