Dear Dan,
Can you give us a page reference? I don't remember this bit.
But it really strikes a chord with me - if I play the (6c) lute
standing, and improvising, I find myself wandering round the room! I
wonder why?
Mark Wheeler does some nifty sprinting from one side of the stage to the
Thank you, Mathias, for these precious informations.
I could find the CD of Amazon.de and ordered it right away.
Any further indication where I could find the German study you mention?
Nancy,
how could that past article in the LSA Journal be made available to
us (or at least, I could I
Every classical guitarist I know carries a small swatch of sandpaper in his
of her guitar case for smoothing fingertips. I'm surprised that this is at
all contoversial. #600 wet and dry is a very fine grain sandpaper. How often
do you play modern guitar, Rob? It seems to me that if you play 2 to 4
I've been playing without nails for at least 30 years, and I play
only metal-strung instruments. I have light calluses on my right
hand, nothing like those on the left, but it never occurred to me to
sand the right-hand fingers. Maybe I'll try it when I haven't got
any concerts coming up.
Calluses have a tendency to get rough. Sanding them smooths them out
resulting in a cleaner sound. Roughness can excite unintended harmonics
causing a less focused sound from the string, like pulling a fine tooth comb
across the string.
Gary
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Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2007 4:19 PM
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Perhaps OT on the lute-list either way, but I mentioned Sor and Giuliani,
not baroque guitar music. Neither did I
Yet another question for the Collective Wisdom: I've been trying to
find out something about Comte Bergen who has a few pieces listed
in Vienna MS 1078. Does anyone know anything about who he was?
I wonder if there might be some information about him in Per Ketil
Farstad's thesis.
One of
Weiss does mention that playing with nails is acceptable on the theorbo but not
on the lute (I don't have the exact quote to hand)
MH
LGS-Europe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Perhaps OT on the lute-list either way, but I mentioned Sor and Giuliani,
not baroque guitar music. Neither did I
Dear Howard Posner,
Thank you for your considerate reply. On reflection, when I've a bit of time
I will, in fact, tunnel into my archives and dig out some the sources I had in
mind (especially those suggesting Roman pitch at around 400 rather than 380).
To an extent some are identified
Sorry Martin, I can only recall that I did read it in a friend's copy
many years ago. Although I don't have an eidetic memory (I have the
other kind) it did strike me very strongly. I hope someone else on
the list can jump in, verify my recollection and pin down the quote.
The most spectacular
Buddy Guy does that often, and even before wireless he did it with very long
cables.
RT
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From: Daniel Winheld [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007 11:29 AM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: standing position for playing
Sorry Martin, I
Rob
Felicitations on the latest arrival in your lutherie. I hope it is
proving just as you hoped, or even better.
I can't answer your question, but I will pick up one point from your
message later, and raise a question myself about that.
I just wanted to react to the initial part of your
Charles,
Yes, I play while standing very often. The size of a lute doesn't matter
(maybe except a big theorbo). This is quite a comfortable position except
you tend to move much more which is not often seen as appropriate by the
audience. Besides I am not sure what is the influence of this
My strap is looped around 2 of the trebleside pegs, and that prevents
uptilting.
Anyway, I was equally inaudible to the back rows sitting or standing.
RT
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From: Jarosław Lipski [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: 'Lute' lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2007
--- Jaros³aw Lipski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Besides I am not sure what is the
influence of this position on
the projection - you stand above sitting people and
the lute is lightly
tilted towards the ceiling (you don't have the piece
of strap that you
normally seat on) so that the sound
I used La Bella for for the last two years, after many years of
experience with Pyramid. I heard no noticeable difference, but did
not expect much from nylon. I use copper wound so can't comment on
the silver. I followed the recommendations on the LaBella website for
my lute length, as
You may be called upon to stand and play guitar, mandora or theorbo,
archlute in
any of various opera productions, so it is good to know how to do
this and play from memory.
Also, if sing, you pretty much have to stand.
An ultra light neck is very handy for this especially on theorbos,
On 12/11/2007, David Tayler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
All my big instruments have ultra light necks.
Lucky you! :-)
Arto
PS I just bought a Dunlop guitar strap to my archlute...
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Sorry, Gary, I didn't think I was being critical, and I hope you don't think
I was. Certainly classical guitarists use paper everyday to smooth their
nails, but I never thought they did it to their skin as well. But it's not
how you get your sound that matters, ultimately, but what sound you get
Not quite answering your question...but, I used La Bella gut 19th-C guitar
strings, the lightly varnished ones, and I thought they were very good
quality.
Rob
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Sent: 11 December 2007 19:35
To: Nigel
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