Re: 415 vs 440 ...

2004-04-22 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear Bill, on Friday 23 April 2004 07:12, you wrote: > is it possible to calculate string vibration without the aid of a > digital automatic tuner? Well, perhaps my old www-page calculator is usable: http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/wikla/mus/Calcs/wwwscalc.html Arto

Re: 415 vs 440 ...

2004-04-22 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear Tim, on Friday 23 April 2004 01:08, you wrote: > I have kept my Baroque at A415 forever. But, there are occasions > where I wish it was @ A440. Are there folks out there that do switch > regularly between 415 and 440? Would there be any re-stringing > required for the two different tensi

Re: 415 vs 440 ...

2004-04-22 Thread LGS-Europe
Dear Tim > I have kept my Baroque at A415 forever. But, there are occasions where I > wish it was @ A440. Are there folks out there that do switch regularly > between 415 and 440? Would there be any re-stringing required for the two > different tensions? On most of my instruments I have 440 st

Re: 415 vs 440 ...

2004-04-22 Thread bill
my eyes start to cross whenever i have a go at a string calculator and i usually end up having to take a nap. is there a simple (big block letters) site to explain how these things function? is it possible to calculate string vibration without the aid of a digital automatic tuner? - bill

Re: 415 vs 440 ...

2004-04-22 Thread Tim Mills
Thanks Thomas, that make sense. Is it possible to actually measure the amount of tension? I remember sometime back that someone (I think it was Arto?) mentioned something like 3.8Kg of string tension on one of his instruments ... Tim - Original Message - From: "Thomas Schall" <[EMAIL P

Re: 415 vs 440 ...

2004-04-22 Thread Edward Martin
Dear Tim, Greetings! I would caution you to not bring the instrument up to 440, as it would greatly increase the overall tension on the lute. If you really want to tune it to 440, it would require re-stringing it at a lighter tension. This is a great deal of inconvenience, not to mention gre

Re: 415 vs 440 ...

2004-04-22 Thread Thomas Schall
I stay in a=415. The tension increases *very* much when changing to a=440 so a restringing would be necessary. This affects the usual sound because the lute gets somehos used to a certain tuning (everything on a lute is vibrating and after some time the vibrations are somehow fixed and the lute nee

415 vs 440 ...

2004-04-22 Thread Tim Mills
I have kept my Baroque at A415 forever. But, there are occasions where I wish it was @ A440. Are there folks out there that do switch regularly between 415 and 440? Would there be any re-stringing required for the two different tensions? Also, I have a tendency to pull on strings that are sli

unsurmountable temptations of lute-limericks

2004-04-22 Thread Harald Bergsted
Roman T., a misdeemed "lutenist", Is an evil *-ficator* of *mist-*. Be it then as it may, Screw the critics, I say: To the Lute-List he's a Catalyst. hb > If Arto decides to get plastered: > 'tis better to plan to have mastered > the great Art of Debate, > for in his drunken state > he'd be reprob

Re: unsurmountable temptations of lute-limericks

2004-04-22 Thread Roman Turovsky
If Arto decides to get plastered: 'tis better to plan to have mastered the great Art of Debate, for in his drunken state he'd be reprobated as "runkkered" RT > At 08:12 22-04-2004 -0400, you wrote: >> In Helsinki, a luter called Arto >> wastes in beer and wine his art. Oh, >> how he then sighs >> a

Re: Fw:

2004-04-22 Thread "Mathias Rösel"
"Aabrandt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > > .. I may be misled in this case, but I have never seen anything like = > this in such an instrument. The upper pegheads of "theorboed" Guitars = > were sometimes equipped with supporting bars, but lutes? it was quite commen, nevertheless. Many pictures

Re: unsurmountable temptations of lute-limericks

2004-04-22 Thread Arto Wikla
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Roman Turovsky wrote: > in beer and wine Only a tiny correction: It was Calvados Berneroy. Arto

unsurmountable temptations of lute-limericks

2004-04-22 Thread Roman Turovsky
In Helsinki, a luter called Arto wastes in beer and wine his art. Oh, how he then sighs and drunkenly cries: "Why am I not tall like R.Barto?!?!?!?!" RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://turovsky.org http://polyhymnion.org

Fw:

2004-04-22 Thread Aabrandt
- Original Message -=20 From: Aabrandt=20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 9:14 AM .. I may be misled in this case, but I have never seen anything like = this in such an instrument. The upper pegheads of "theorboed" Guitars = were sometimes equipped with supporting ba