At 05:16 PM 9/22/2004, Stewart McCoy wrote:
Although it is true that an introductory passage may be separated
from what follows by a comma, it would be incorrect to use a comma
after passage, as you suggest for a sentence in my last e-mail,
since Throughout that passage is not an introductory
Strunk White
certainly is my favorite for its clarity and concision.
Mine too.
RT
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Fluting allows one to make the joints between ribs thicker for a broader
gluing surface. The luthier can start with a slightly deeper, heavier rib
and then remove the excess mass by carving out excess wood along the span
of the rib while leaving the glued joints broad. Another possible
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--- Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 05:16 PM 9/22/2004, Stewart McCoy wrote:
Although it
Deal me in!
-Carl
--On Thursday, September 23, 2004 3:20 PM +0100 bill kilpatrick
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Richard just confirmed to me that the pieces in question are transcriptions
from the Saizenai MS as well as the Agen MS.
Alain
At 08:09 PM 9/22/2004, Steve Amazeen wrote:
Subject: Civiol's edition of Visee theorbo music
I can no longer find the web site where I got this. My question is:
Dear Eugene,
Many thanks for another bit o' fun. I'm pleased we won't be having
pistols at dawn over a comma. :-)
All the best,
Stewart.
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From: Eugene C. Braig IV [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute Net [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 2:59 PM
Subject:
Stewart McCoy wrote:
The
world is full of sentences beginning with conjunctions, often from
very eminent writers, but that still doesn't make it grammatically
correct.
Yes it does. If it doesn't, the whole notion of correct is meaningless.
This isn't like Mark Twain using ain't
At 12:55 PM 9/23/2004, Stewart McCoy wrote:
Dear Eugene,
Many thanks for another bit o' fun. I'm pleased we won't be having
pistols at dawn over a comma. :-)
All the best,
Stewart.
Indeed, I'd rather enjoy a cordial pint o' stout over commas use!
E
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Dear Bill,
You've touched an eternal question ...
As in most cases with bowl back early instruments - vihuelas are not
excluded - you never know where aesthetics end and acoustics begin, or vice
versa. If we exclude aesthetics altogether we'll end up by stretching
strings over the rectangular box
Eugene C. Braig IV wrote:
At 01:07 PM 9/23/2004, Howard Posner wrote:
Stewart McCoy wrote:
full of tritones.
I suppose children are taught not to start sentences with prepositions
because the results are so bad when they do. But then we grow up and put
aside some of the rules of
Howard Posner wrote:
Stewart McCoy wrote:
If we corrected each other's mistakes in English, we'd be here all
day.
And wasting time at that, since it would largely be the blind leading the
blind.
1) One should not normally begin a sentence with But, since but
is a word used to
To quote:
Everyone I know has a big but. C'mon, Simone, let's talk about YOUR big but.
Rainer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Howard Posner wrote:
Stewart McCoy wrote:
If we corrected each other's mistakes in English, we'd be here all
day.
And wasting time at that, since it would largely be
On Thu, 23 Sep 2004, Doctor Oakroot wrote:
Actually you can't end a sentence with a preposition because then it would
not be pre-positioned. OTOH English has many word that look like
prepositions but are really verbal particles and make perfectly good
sentence enders.
Hmm ... That is a
We cross the street by ourselves, go
to bed late, go places without asking permission, have sex, run for
political office, and start sentences with prepositions.
Speak for yourself! (apart form the last bit)
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Eugene C. Braig IV wrote:
Um, I think you mean conjunctions instead of prepositions here,
Howard.
You mean there's a difference?
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Dear Alexander:
Just how many authentic Vihuelas are actually still in existence? Is the
existing music for this instrument of fine enough quality to warrant making
the instrument? In other words, is there a market for it?
VW
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Dear All,
I made a new page on my site ( Dame Musicanti) with some mp3 files, live.
Hope you enjoy!
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Dear All:
As the only full-time newspaper editor on the list, I have this to say
about the current thread:
SHUT UP AND GO BACK TO TALKING ABOUT THE LUTE! AND VIHUELA!
Yours,
Jim
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Many thanks to all who responded to my question.
Since the time I posted my query about early quotes on Bakfark I made a trip to Poland
(Warsaw and Krakow) this past weekend and even performed a lute recital at the Muzeum
Narodowe w Warszawa and enjoyed including Bakfark in the program. I left
I know a previous post stated that this edition is out
of print, but is it available anywhere?
CW
--- Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard just confirmed to me that the pieces in
question are transcriptions
from the Saizenai MS as well as the Agen MS.
Alain
At 08:09 PM
Dear Gabor , the answers are as follows
1.It is still a proverb in Poland , but not commonly used , as now only a
few poeple know who was Bakfark . You may hear it rather from the poeple
involved with literature , poetry, culture etc.
2.It has been a proverb since the Kochanowski put it into his
Hi all,
While doing a search in Yahoo on the words Django and lute, I found the=20
(very) puzzling following entry (number 9 in the listing):
http://rds.yahoo.com/S=3D2766679/K=3Dlute+django/v=3D2/SID=3De/TID=3DDFX0_3=
/l=3DWS1/R=3D9/H=3D0/IPC=3Dus/SHE=3D0/SIG=3D12hb0bndj/*-http%3A//www.britann=
A fine, and surprisingly humorous, work on punctuation is Eats, Shoots Leaves by
Lynne Truss. Very amusing and informative, even if you don't like grammar.
BTW, for correct English usage sticklers, it has been proposed that ain't is the
only correct way to make a contraction of am [I] not.
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