sarmaticae novae

2004-12-27 Thread Roman Turovsky
For the REALLY adventurous: a 7-course intabulation of a folk-song that uses parallel 5ths- Sarmatica 16 at http://polyhymnion.org/torban/torban4.html Enjoy, RT To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-27 Thread Vance Wood
I know you guys want to find ways to use finger nails. I was at one time the fingernail king. I stood alone at the University I attended as the fingernail aficionado on the Lute. I received much criticism for it, mostly behind my back. I was a known Viet Nam Vet. and I think some of the people t

new address

2004-12-27 Thread doc rossi
In case anyone needs to reach me by traditional post, here's my new address. Wishing you all a happy and creative new year, Doc Rossi Via Secchi 40 42100 Reggio Emilia (RE) Italy http://www.magnatune.com/artists/docrossi tel: (+39) 0522 43 43 95 cell: (+39) 348 8000 572 To get on or off this

Re: Vio-print

2004-12-27 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 12:32 PM 12/27/2004, Howard Posner wrote: >Is there such an instrument as a mandolone? And if there is, can the >mandoloncello/mandocello be said to be a small one? "There is" and "of sorts" respectively. Like the violoncello to violin, the mandoloncello is more like a big mandolin than a s

Re: Vio-print

2004-12-27 Thread Howard Posner
Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: > "Mandoloncello" is a proper Italian word and the original, proper term for > the instrument, analogous to violoncello. Is there such an instrument as a mandolone? And if there is, can the mandoloncello/mandocello be said to be a small one? HP To get on or off thi

Re: Vio-print

2004-12-27 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 11:33 AM 12/27/2004, Howard Posner wrote: > > MANDOLONCELLO would be an appropriate term. > > "mandocello" makes little sense. > >True only if you assume it's a real Italian word. I believe it's actually >an American term formed by analogy. "Mandoloncello" is a proper Italian word and the ori

Re: Vio-print

2004-12-27 Thread Roman Turovsky
>> MANDOLONCELLO would be an appropriate term. >> "mandocello" makes little sense. > > True only if you assume it's a real Italian word. It actually is. > I believe it's actually > an American term formed by analogy. Corruption of the former, rather. RT To get on or off this list see list inf

Re: Vio-print

2004-12-27 Thread Howard Posner
Roman Turovsky wrote: > MANDOLONCELLO would be an appropriate term. > "mandocello" makes little sense. True only if you assume it's a real Italian word. I believe it's actually an American term formed by analogy. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~

Re: medieval songs

2004-12-27 Thread bill kilpatrick
dear thomas - are you looking for medieval settings of medieval songs or will modern settings do? http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/cantigas/facsimiles/ - will produce some on-line facsimilies. http://home.earthlink.net/~guitarandlute/lutetab.html - has medieval music for mandolin in both notatio

Re: Vio-print

2004-12-27 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
At 07:30 AM 12/27/2004, Edward Martin wrote: >And, in terms of mandolins, mandocello. Or, more properly, mandoloncello, which was later Americanized to mando-cello. Eugene To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

Re: Vio-print

2004-12-27 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
Oops, sorry for my sequential e-mail reading/replying redundancy. Eugene At 08:00 AM 12/27/2004, Roman Turovsky wrote: >Actually not. Not is this particular form. >MANDOLONCELLO would be an appropriate term. >"mandocello" makes little sense. >RT >__ >Roman M. Turovsky >http://polyhymn

medieval songs

2004-12-27 Thread thomas . schall
Dear lute listers, for a project I would need some settings of medieval songs, for instance the Diessenhofener MS. (found by accident recently in the tower of an old castle in switzerland and containing two songs), by Oswald von Wolkenstein and Ulrich von Lichtenstein. I haven't found much on

Re: Vio-print

2004-12-27 Thread Roman Turovsky
Actually not. Not is this particular form. MANDOLONCELLO would be an appropriate term. "mandocello" makes little sense. RT __ Roman M. Turovsky http://polyhymnion.org/swv > > And, in terms of mandolins, mandocello. > > ed > > At 08:25 PM 12/26/2004 -0500, Roman Turovsky wrote: >> 'f

Re: Vio-print

2004-12-27 Thread Edward Martin
And, in terms of mandolins, mandocello. ed At 08:25 PM 12/26/2004 -0500, Roman Turovsky wrote: >'fraid not. Cello=violoncello, i.e. SMALL violone (large viol). The >morphology is similar to limoncello, monticello etc. >RT >__ >Roman M. Turovsky >http://polyhymnion.org/swv > > > > From

Re: Instrument Sounding

2004-12-27 Thread Jon Murphy
> How about false nails? I tried them once or twice and they work > great, but taking them off nearly destroyed my nail underneath. I bet > if you found the right glue or strong double sided tape you could get > them to work. There are also the banjo finger picks. If you get the metal ones you ca

Re: PyramidTension and vibrating length

2004-12-27 Thread Jon Murphy
Rosin, I have a few problems with your "like wow" vocabulary, but I think I'm working my way through it (and enjoying it). Whatever I can show on the "sillyscope" or prove as to the effects of "spinning bodies" or conical strings on the actual tone production there is only one instrument that can