Off topic

2004-05-13 Thread RichardTomBeck
Dear all, The point at issue is quite simple. We all of us have our opinions upon a whole range of topics, will Liverpool Football club ever be any good again, why did Arsenal once more not win the Champions' League, and other matters of equally great importance. I could fill this list with my

Re: Question:nusing gut stringing for baroque lute

2004-05-13 Thread Lambert, SC (Simon)
Ed Martin wrote: I have hear that Aquila is stopping the manufacture of the loaded gut strings. If this is true, it's very sad, partly because it simply reduces the choice available, but also (and I think more worryingly) because it seems to mark a retreat from any attempt to get to the

Re: Off topic: extracts of one private answer

2004-05-13 Thread Howard Posner
Dear Sirs: I wish to complain in the strongest possible terms about off-topic posts complaining about off-topic posts complaining about off-topic posts, including, of course, this one and the posts complaining about this one, and the posts complaining about them. Very truly yours, Brigadier Sir

off topic

2004-05-13 Thread RichardTomBeck
Well said, Sir Howard!! --

Re: Re: Off topic: extracts of one private answer

2004-05-13 Thread arielabra
Dear all, not willing to fall into an endless argument, let me please mention that if Arto does not have the right to post here his opinions about politics or any other subject besides lute and music- as many people seem to agree about- I personally don't find correct that other members of

Re: Off topic: extracts of one private answer

2004-05-13 Thread bill
ok... what ever happened to dalza and his bum note? On Giovedì, mag 13, 2004, at 14:26 Europe/Rome, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, not willing to fall into an endless argument, let me please mention that if Arto does not have the right to post here his opinions about politics or

Re: Re: Off topic: extracts of one private answer

2004-05-13 Thread Eugene Braig
Whatever my opinions on this topic happen to be (and I do have them), they are not relevant to this list. I expressed my opinions in a private note to Arto when I also asked to be able to read more about lutes here and less about politics. I favor this course of action and urge respondents to

Re: Friendly fire, music and cruelty to animals

2004-05-13 Thread Alain Veylit
Although this is not totally lute-related (how many decibels can a lute generate?) I find it amusing/ironic: Paul McCartney, a known animal-rights advocate, is in trouble with Greenwich people: even though he rehearses across the river, complaints from residents were issued, most notably one

Re: Off topic: extracts of one private answer

2004-05-13 Thread Edward Martin
Your topic about the cows can certainly revert to the lute. People have tried beef gut (i.e., Where's the Beef? , Walter Mondale's campaign slogan in 1984) for lute strings, but found it unsatisfactory. ed At 12:00 PM 5/13/04 -0700, Alain Veylit wrote: Did you know that a motion by

Re: Question:nusing gut stringing for baroque lute

2004-05-13 Thread Edward Martin
At 04:05 PM 5/13/04 +0100, Lambert, SC (Simon) wrote: Ed Martin wrote: I have hear that Aquila is stopping the manufacture of the loaded gut strings. Simon et al, I believe this to be true, as Mimmo notified Dan Larson that he is or has discontinued loaded gut. I believe the reason is, as

Re: Friendly fire, music and cruelty to animals

2004-05-13 Thread Howard Posner
You wrote: more lute music is to be heard at Ralph's than anywhere else in Southern California... Probably some studies showed that (low decibel level) early music can put people in the comfortable (zombie) state conducive to the happy consomption of supposedly happy (yet now dead) chicken.

Re: Friendly fire, music and cruelty to animals

2004-05-13 Thread Alain Veylit
Howard, You are most probably right on the copyrights, but it seems to me that those big chain supermarket music compilations must represent big bucks for someone (not necessarily the recording artists). There is a potential annoyance if lute music were to be tagged or associated with

Re: Friendly fire, music and cruelty to animals

2004-05-13 Thread Nancy Carlin
Howard Alain, I thought muzak - background the businesses that play music to the public in the US do need to report to the performing rights organizations (BMI ASCAP). Bars, dentist's offices ect. often subscribe to get music of a particular type and there are companies that put these