It's true, I can't afford to play an actual lute, but I've played oud and
Cumbus enough to know I really don't like double stringing. Don't like the
way it feels on my right hand fingers and don't like the chorus effect
(which interferes with detailed pitch control).
I now play lute music on a
Dear All,
Concerning the famous passage from The Book of the Courtier :-
I have pasted a copy of the English translation by Sir Thomas Hoby
of 1561 below. Hoby spent a number of years living in Italy, and
presumably brought some understanding of contemporary Italian
to his translation of
Interesting translation. One may find the full text of Hopy's translation
here:
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~rbear/courtier/courtier.html
Last night I was reading J. R. Woodhouse's Baldesar Castiglione: A
Reassessment of The Courtier. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1978.
In his
At 04:32 PM 8/3/2006, you wrote:
Dear List:
In a previous post, David van Ooijen provided the passage in Italian, which
I paste below. He also provided us with a link to the following
Sono ancor armoniosi tutti gli instrumenti da tasti, perche hanno le
consonanzie molto perfette e con
Dear all,
On the vexed question of frets, or freats as Hoby spells the word,
it appears that he has opted for implying fretted instruments. It seems
he spells it freates
It is interesting that the word (freate or) fret only appears in English
around 1500, origin unclear.
This list of the
Dear collective wisdom,
In V. Galilei's Intavolatura di Liuto, 1584 manuscript there is an
unnamed composition on p. 116. It is clearly a contrapunto in the
style of BM or Terzi but there is no clue as to the accompaniment. It
may be a freeform series of supportive chords like that of BM in
Dear Luthfriends,
I have build a Chitarrone of 14 courses and a stringlengh of 78cm and 160cm.
Now my question is what kind of strings to put them.
I was thinking to put him gutstrings and for the basstrings maybe braided
gutstrings. Ore would it be better to put synthetical strings?
I would be
Hi,
I would give the newly developed semi-rectified gut strings by aquila a
try. I already had the chance to play them and they seem promising. I
don't know th eprice yet but the strings seem to be very good.
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Von: Daniel Josua Koenig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Friday, Aug 4, 2006, at 14:28 America/Los_Angeles, Daniel Josua
Koenig wrote:
I have build a Chitarrone of 14 courses and a stringlengh of 78cm and
160cm.
Now my question is what kind of strings to put them.
Plain gut should work well on the long strings.
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I have build a Chitarrone of 14 courses and a stringlengh of 78cm and
160cm.
Now my question is what kind of strings to put them.
Plain gut should work well on the long strings.
yepp. I have plain gut for the basses, and nylgut over the fretboard.
Works very well.
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Best wishes, and
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