Stubblefield-lit the bulbs from the Earth

Up to the 1930-ies it was common thing that telegraph and telephone used no batteries appart from the permanent...Earth Batteries. Thanks to people like Stubblefield (who's knowledge is carefully supressed nowadays). Stubblefield drew electricity from the ground with very simple devices and had his

Re: Lutenists and light bulbs (was: El Maestro )

>You forgot the 11th, who would harp on how druids would wound tungsten coil > on carbonfiber, and tell a tale about the 9th century light-bulb in > Waterford that was so bright it could be seen in Dunfanaghy. > RT oh, but of course--no problem--Ancient Egypt light bulb: http://ourworld.compus

Re:Lutenists and light bulbs (was: El Maestro )

> By the way, how many lutenists does it take to change a light bulb? > > > Well, at least ten of them: one to measure the rim and see if the light bulb > fits exactly or if it is let's say one tenth of mm (one inch = 250 mm) too > big or too small, the second to measure how far the light mig

Re: Instrument Sounding

I played CG for years without nails. My solution to the volume problem came about during my study with Hector Garcia, one of Pujol's students. The manner of attacking the string is less of a glossing over or plucking the string, as with the nail or a plectrum, and more of a downward plunging a

RE: Sape

Dear Stewart, there is an official Sarawak website and it might be a useful starting point to contact them first Best wishes Charles -Original Message- From: Stewart McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 December 2004 21:17 To: Lute Net Subject: Sape Dear All, I seek information abou

RE: Sape

further to my earlier email, there is a 'Sape' internet site which has a contact list Charles -Original Message- From: Stewart McCoy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 December 2004 21:17 To: Lute Net Subject: Sape Dear All, I seek information about the so-called boat-lute played in Sar

Sape

Dear All, I seek information about the so-called boat-lute played in Sarawak, known as a "sape". I have the opportunity of borrowing one. It has frets missing, a broken string, and generally needs tidying up. Someone has stuck drawing pins (thumb tacks in American) on the front of the instrument,

Dimensions

Actually the normal relation between inches an millimetres is 1 inch = 25.4 mm, Probably only a slip, but I wouldn't want anyone to build a lute as big as a football pitch nor so small as a thumbnail! Richard Corran To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.

Re:Lutenists and light bulbs (was: El Maestro )

> By the way, how many lutenists does it take to change a light bulb? Well, at least ten of them: one to measure the rim and see if the light bulb fits exactly or if it is let's say one tenth of mm (one inch = 250 mm) too big or too small, the second to measure how far the light might go, the thi

Re: Lutenists and light bulbs (was: El Maestro )

You forgot the 11th, who would harp on how druids would wound tungsten coil on carbonfiber, and tell a tale about the 9th century light-bulb in Waterford that was so bright it could be seen in Dunfanaghy. RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > From: "Donatella Galletti"

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

Am 16 Dec 2004 um 11:10 hat Alain Veylit geschrieben: > By the > way, how many lutenists does it take to change a light bulb? > Two! One who changes the bulb and one who explains it to the charango player. Stephan To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.e

Re: Redux Strings

> > Tinctoris' "De Inventione et Usu Musicae" of 1487, that refers to > > older and current wire strung instruments is an obvious forgery. Says who? Stephan To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

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

none! There were no light bulbs in renaissance times. -Original Message- From: Alain Veylit [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 16 December 2004 19:11 To: Arto Wikla Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: El Maestro (Was: Vihuela,) Arto, The original joke went: Republican congressmen repeale

Re: A Movie

> > how come? there is an old tango-cancion by Carlos Gardel, titled "Ventarron". RT -- http://polyhymnion.org/torban To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: A Movie

> "Jon Murphy" schrieb: >> I commend you to the film Master and Commander. It is drawn from the novels >> of the late Patrick O'Brian which I've enjoyed over the years. The film, > ..snip > > a horrible would-be, and no lutes in it. So what? I much prefer films to movi

Re: Redux Strings

> RT, I suggest you check your textbooks, the process of obtaining aluminum > out of bauxite was simultaneously invented by a Frenchman and an American in > the same year (and give or take twenty years, for my fading memory, it was > about 1850). I can give you the names and the date, but I'll not

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

Arto, The original joke went: Republican congressmen repealed a motion to rename French tablature "freedom tablature" on the account that they did not want to have to learn yet another kind of tablature. By the way, how many lutenists does it take to change a light bulb? Alain Arto Wikla wrote

RE: Strings Redux, progress report

Howdy Jon - I don't know or have a way to contact the author of that string article, Chris Forster. The magazine that the article was published in (Experimental Musical Instruments) is no longer in print, but the editor maintains a web site, www.windworld.com, and offers back issues. EMI should

RE: Strings Redux, progress report

A clarification of Jon's post - The old Chris Forster article on string tension that I have been e-mailing to those who request does NOT say that strings sound best when tuned to 80% of their breaking strength. Rather, he recommends that strings be tuned to between 50% and 70% of their breaking

Re: Instrument Sounding

At 03:10 AM 12/15/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >This is nothing new. The domination of nails in guitar technique is >relatively >recent and was still debated well after 6-string guitars became the standard. >Fernando Sor himself advocated nail-less technique.>> > > >Right... Sor advocated a no

Re: A Movie

"Jon Murphy" schrieb: > I commend you to the film Master and Commander. It is drawn from the novels > of the late Patrick O'Brian which I've enjoyed over the years. The film, ..snip a horrible would-be, and no lutes in it. So what? -- Mathias -- To get on or off thi

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

Dear Alain, I have listened to the Kaky Kings CDs, that I found very interesting; I found her technique very similar to Michael Hedges play (Aerial boundaries) Paolo Declich > You all got it all wrong: The difference between a vihuela and a > charango is the same as that between a piano and

Euing Lute Book, England: c.1620-1630 MS Euing 25

stumbled upon it, passing it on . . .=20 Special Collections, University of Glasgow http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/treasures/subject.html##music http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/treasures/lute.html plate online http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/manuscripts/search/detaild.cfm?DID=3D5897 =

Re: A Movie

> === message truncated === how come? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

A Movie

Bill, (and this is copied to my several lists should they have interest) I commend you to the film Master and Commander. It is drawn from the novels of the late Patrick O'Brian which I've enjoyed over the years. The film, which I've finally seen as I don't go to movie theaters and bought a used vi

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

With no intent of denigrating anyone's views on Life, the Universe and All That (which some may recognize from the late and great Douglas Adams), I must tell a story. (And for those who know, I do know where my towel is). And I enjoy fantasy, it is fun. The seeker of wisdom goes to the source, he

Re: Redux Strings

RT, I suggest you check your textbooks, the process of obtaining aluminum out of bauxite was simultaneously invented by a Frenchman and an American in the same year (and give or take twenty years, for my fading memory, it was about 1850). I can give you the names and the date, but I'll not go to my

Re: Strings Redux, progress report

Ben, By now you have seen my "off list" reply to your kind sending of the Forster article. You say that the EMI magazine has gone "belly up", but have you a way to contact Forster (I'll Google it). I'm answering here also in abbreviated form intentionally. Forster's assessment of 80% of breaking s

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

On Wednesday 15 December 2004 23:29, Alain Veylit wrote: > I added a PDF version in Freedom Tablature also. > >>[...] 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 [...] Many thanks Alain!