Antwort: El Maestro (Was: Vihuela,....)

2004-12-15 Thread thomas . schall
Dear Arto, I think Django converts to italian or french tab as well as Fronimo does. So if you should have the file and at least the demo version of django it should be easy to convert. All the best Thomas Arto Wikla [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 15.12.2004 09:12:06 An:Alain Veylit [EMAIL

El Maestro (Was: Vihuela,....)

2004-12-15 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear Alain, you wrote: [...] Goran Crona's beautiful transcription of Luys Milan's Maestro (vihuela solo pieces only) from my site at http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/ELF.html [...] Fine! Beautiful edition! Do you (or someone else) have a version of El Maestro translated to Italian

Re: Vihuela, charango and armadillos. Long post . Olim Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-15 Thread bill kilpatrick
and so ... with the icy blast of rejection resounding in his neatly combed, brand new casa armonica, the plucky little vihuela de mano retraced his steps back to the nina, pinta and santa maria. 'vihuelita' ... the common little chordophone mused as he scampered up the gangway and into the arms

Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-15 Thread LGS-Europe
case. I wonder what solutions have been invented to play the guitar without maintaining fingernails: Play without nails, basically. A great proportion of 19c guitarists did, all of my students do, I do. Gut strings, nylon strings, carbon strings, nylgut strings, high tension, low tension, 19c

Very nice LSA Quarterly!

2004-12-15 Thread Arto Wikla
Dear lutenists, yesterday I got my copy of the LSA Quarterly XXXIX, No. 4. It was a very nice surprise: about 70 lute arrangemants of Christmas and winter holiday pieces! It will be very useful! Many thanks to LSA, Dick Hoban and all the other arrangers, many of whom are also LuteList

Re: El Maestro (Was: Vihuela,....)

2004-12-15 Thread Stephan Olbertz
It is so funny, but to me reading Luys Milan tabulature is nearly impossible! When I see number tabulature, I can read it only in the Italian way... ;-) Dear Arto, same with me. I'm always confused when some students come up with guitar/folk/Valencian tablature. :-) Regards, Stephan

Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-15 Thread Stephan Olbertz
Additionally, it helps to keep the last finger joint flexible, at least with low and normal tension strings. According to Pujoll, who played without nails too, the index should stand upright on the string. For comparison: Segovia's technique (nails) would be to play over the left side of the

Re: Very nice LSA Quarterly!

2004-12-15 Thread corun
Arto wrote: yesterday I got my copy of the LSA Quarterly XXXIX, No. 4. It was a very nice surprise: about 70 lute arrangemants of Christmas and winter holiday pieces! It will be very useful! Indeed, I'd like to echo that sentiment. what a nice surprise. I sat down immediately and started

Re: Very nice LSA Quarterly!

2004-12-15 Thread Mathias Rösel
YES! INDEED! Mathias Arto Wikla mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Dear lutenists, yesterday I got my copy of the LSA Quarterly XXXIX, No. 4. It was a very nice surprise: about 70 lute arrangemants of Christmas and winter holiday pieces! It will be very useful! Many thanks to LSA,

Re: El Maestro (Was: Vihuela,....)

2004-12-15 Thread Edward Martin
Arto, Milan is also available in the Fronimo files, Jason Kortis did this edition. This edition has all the fronimo features, where you can go under options, general, and styles, and you can simply put it into any kind of tab you desire.. French, Italian, Spanish, even German! ed At

Lute Tablature on Ebay

2004-12-15 Thread Guitar Lute
Hi I'm still cleaning the shelves. I found Lute Tablature Giovanni Pittoni Ferrarese Facsimile and posted it for $20.00 on ebay Allan To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: Antwort: Very nice LSA Quarterly!

2004-12-15 Thread Roman Turovsky
very helpfull indeed although the players of the baroque lute went out empty. This just as a hint if this effort should be continued the next year ;-) Lets not waste time on cheese. And instead lets possibly prepare a similar Easter issue (even electronic). I don't care if we offend a Muslim or

Antwort: Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-15 Thread thomas . schall
Dear David, it all depends on the instrument you are playing. First of all playing without nails requires strings of less tension - it's a matter of taste which kind of string you want to use - nylgut or gut feels best imho. If this doesn't lead to any success it's possible to file your

Antwort: Re: Antwort: Very nice LSA Quarterly!

2004-12-15 Thread thomas . schall
As far as I am concerned no problem with that idea - maybe Markus wants to join and could provide a list of suitable carols (I wouldn't care if a muslim or follower of any other religion would add suitable music of his/her religion). Thomas Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] am 15.12.2004

flamenco traditions

2004-12-15 Thread ConoS
Just a quick note: It should be rememmbered that Flamenco is the music of the Gypsy/Romani people who emigrated from Northern India around the year 1000 AD and were first documented in Spain in the 15th century. There are some interesting parallels between Flamenco and Indian raga music:

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Very nice LSA Quarterly!

2004-12-15 Thread Mathias Rösel
Roman Turovsky mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] am 15.12.2004 15:25:27 Lets not waste time on cheese. And instead lets possibly prepare a similar Easter issue (even electronic). I don't care if we offend a Muslim or 2 in the process. there should be nothing wrong with Easter (resurrection) for

Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-15 Thread Vance Wood
In the day when I taught classical Guitar I was fond of the Carcassi Method. If I remember correctly this method recommended no nails for the Guitar. Vance Wood. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 14, 2004 9:49 PM

Re: Vihuela, charango and armadillos. Long post . Olim Renaissance america - a little more lute related, maybe

2004-12-15 Thread rosinfiorini
i found this thought brilliant: i read recently that the process of history really got underway when mirrors became affordable to everyone. until then it was impossible - literally - to properly see one'self as anything distinctly different. By chance I red recently in this book (in PC

Re: Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-15 Thread rosinfiorini
It may be question of personal way of feeling things, but in my case, when i play the guitar with (double) high tension, thicker than the lute strings, to overcome dull muffled sound i pass really quickly and swiftly across the string at hand. The only thing to be avoided for such playing is

Antwort: Very nice LSA Quarterly!

2004-12-15 Thread thomas . schall
very helpfull indeed although the players of the baroque lute went out empty. This just as a hint if this effort should be continued the next year ;-) And I found it amazing to see an old arrangement I made for the Lute News which I later had put on Wayne's page now attributed to someone

Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-15 Thread David Cassetti
James, I have a Takamine Hirade Arte Ten Concert Model made in 1989. With nails it sounded great, lots of volume and projection. Without nails thumb under it doesn't sound bad, but it's rather dull and quiet by comparison. Getting volume and tone seems to take a lot of effort. I

Re: Antwort: Re: Antwort: Very nice LSA Quarterly!

2004-12-15 Thread Roman Turovsky
As far as I am concerned no problem with that idea - maybe Markus wants to join and could provide a list of suitable carols (I wouldn't care if a muslim or follower of any other religion would add suitable music of his/her religion). Thomas Pat O'Brien for years had a cartoon on his wall. I

String tension

2004-12-15 Thread Ben Cohen
Dear Lute List - I have located the Experimental Musical Instruments magazine article on plain string calculations. I can forward it as a PDF to anyone who requests. Importantly, the author states that plucked strings sound best when tuned to 50% - 70% of their breaking tension (not 80%, as I

Re: El Maestro (Was: Vihuela,....)

2004-12-15 Thread Alain Veylit
I added a PDF version in Freedom Tablature also. Alain Arto Wikla wrote: Dear Alain, you wrote: [...] Goran Crona's beautiful transcription of Luys Milan's Maestro (vihuela solo pieces only) from my site at http://cbsr26.ucr.edu/wlkfiles/ELF.html [...] Fine! Beautiful edition! Do

Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-15 Thread LGS-Europe
side of the finger. BTW, I have enjoyed the appoyando stroke much more since cutting my nails, with nails I regard it as rather useless... Fun, I have the opposite experience. David To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html