the i ching advises us to avoid the self educated as
they tend to become tedious.
installng a filter to hear only what you want to hear
...and disregard the rest (as the song goes) can
only bring that process closer to home.
- bill
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Dear Antonio,
it should
read an interesting item on mike's oud site which says
that under saddam hussein, exporting an oud from iraq
required a written permisson from the ministry of
culture.
i wonder if saddam plays?
- bill
I wonder if Iraqui people now play oud or whatever!
Paolo
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From : bill kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Date : Tue, 21 Sep 2004 09:30:44 +0100 (BST)
Subject : iraqi ouds
read an interesting item on
Fra: Antonio Corona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A rough definition of the vihuela could run in these
terms: a guitar-shaped (a polemic description, I'm
aware, but also a practical one) instrument used in
15th- and 16th century Spain and areas of Spanish
influence, strung with 5 or 6 courses of strings,
This one is still in storage. Stuart described a French one.
RT
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Roman M. Turovsky
http://polyhymnion.org/swv
Last I knew, the English guitar in question was not on the floor, but in
the archived collection. Did you go behind the scenes while at the Met
or is the piece now on
I thought the instrument might be what J. Carpentier, writing in the 1770s,
calls a cythre en luth¹. Cythres were normally wire-strung, with the top four
doubled but Carpentier also mentions gut-strung, lute-shaped ones too. These
French instruments were normally tuned in A and so have a
At 11:47 PM 9/18/2004 -0500, you wrote:
Many old paintings (of skill and sensitivity) depict a young woman holding
a nude Christ, with the baby wearing an adult-like face and making a
religious hand symbol.
Could you cite an example or two so I can see what you are talking about?
There are
Antonio,
With Vance I thank you for the description (and the drawings I've seen
confirm them).
But if you will forgive me for correcting your English (and I only do so as
I prefer to be corrected when I speak in another language). I don't think
you mean polemic when describing the vihuela.
Dear Goran,
You are perfectly right. I was speaking of the most
common instruments; Juan Bermudo mentions a
seven-course vihuela in his Declaracion de
Instrumentos (1555), and the famous vihuelist Luis de
Guzman is reputed to play on one as well. The 40032
manuscript definitely has pieces for a
Howdy Gents,
For those of you who either make lutes, or adjust your own lutes, I've just
found a good tool for working on the grooves in the nut. I had been using
the little 4 Swedish craftsman's files, and some on this list have
suggested strings coated with an abasive. Tonight I was trying to
Dear Jon,
I thank you for your corrrection, I meant polemic as
an adjective: of, relating to, or being a polemic:
controversial. It should have been polemical. Now to
more interesting bussiness.
--- Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió:
Antonio,
With Vance I thank you for the
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