[LUTE] Re: The happy camper with her first lute

2006-04-05 Thread bill kilpatrick
--- LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... and before you know it you have a house full of them. try new, extra-strength GELD-GONE! ... stops instrument acquisition syndrome dead in it's tracks! um-hmm - bill early music charango ... http://groups.google.com/group/charango

[LUTE] Re: The happy camper with her first lute

2006-04-05 Thread Doctor Oakroot
When I was studying bass fiddle, some 30 years ago, my bow cost $2000. $6000 for a cello bow now sounds pretty cheap. (I'll stick to building my own instruments for $50 each, thank you, lol) For a beginner? Christopher Witmer wrote: after visiting a shop that specializes in violins and

[LUTE] Re: The happy camper with her first lute

2006-04-05 Thread Doctor Oakroot
Parenting tip: It's OK to say we'll buy you the first one, but you'll have to buy any additional lutes with your own hard-earned money. heard about the bow) is saying, Honey, let's encourage the other kids to take up lute, where the prices are not so outrageous. It's hard to Indeed, but lutes

[LUTE] fret spacing: dowland vs mathematics

2006-04-05 Thread bill kilpatrick
on this site: http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/frets.html#fn1 .. jeff lee has kindly posted a modern transliteration of dowland's fret spacing method and a mathematical formula for calculating same. he prefers the dowland to the math method as it ... sounds extremely out of tune compared to

[LUTE] [Lute] Re: Happy Camper with Her First Lute

2006-04-05 Thread Steve Ramey
Why are we attracted to them??? They are things of beauty and we all know the line about a thing of beauty being a joy forever. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: The happy camper with her first lute

2006-04-05 Thread lautenist
This sickness is called LAS (Lute Aquireing Syndrom) which is widely spreaded near members of this group ... Thomas d my daughter is such a great fan of the German music of that era! . . . but on the other hand she's still just starting on her Renaissance lute; so why am I so attracted to

[LUTE] Re: The happy camper with her first lute

2006-04-05 Thread bill kilpatrick
--- Christopher Witmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am quickly finding out how strong that temptation is! ... why am I so attracted to this other instrument already? murrah-ha-ha-ha-ha ... early music charango ... http://groups.google.com/group/charango

[LUTE] Re: Anyone no longer need their Method for Renaissance Lute (Damiani)?

2006-04-05 Thread Luca Manassero
Maybe is a silly answer, but why not ordering it directly from Ut Oprpheus? The english page is under [1]http://www.utorpheus.com/catalogo/catalogo.php?l=ingcategoria=Liutocate goria_ing=Lutecatalogo=Categorie Click on it and check... Luca Christopher Witmer on 05/04/2006

[LUTE] Re: fret spacing: dowland vs mathematics

2006-04-05 Thread Doctor Oakroot
Well, first, if you use his mathematical method, you compound your measurement error at every fret, so, of course it sound out of tune. Each fret should be measured from the nut. Second, Dowland's instructions have a big error in the placement of the seventh fret (unless I'm just completely

[LUTE] Re: ebay sticker

2006-04-05 Thread Edward Martin
Lute Players? Attitudes? That certainly does not apply to us ed At 12:56 PM 4/5/2006 -0400, Daniel Shoskes wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/Warning-Lute-Player-with-an-attitude-decal-fun- sticker_W0QQitemZ7405004770QQcategoryZ623QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem Can't imagine this would apply to