Hi fellow musicians,
I have added some new archlute recordings to Y-Tube and Vimeo:
Giovanni Zamboni Romano: Sonata 9 (Lucca 1718):
Preludio / Alemanda / Giga / Sarabanda, Gavotte, allegro
and
Girolamo Kapsberger (Libro primo di lauto, Roma 1611):
Toccata 3 / Gagliarda 9.
The links are in
You may be interested to know of a recent paper published in FoMRHI Quarterly
No 110 (November 2008) by John Catch: 'Temperaments for gut strung...
instruments.
He shows (yet again) that with straight frets it is not possible to produce a
'meantone' (properly so-called) fretting pattern. The
Arto, nice and pleasant to listen to, and your dog is a real actor!
Donatella
http://web.tiscali.it/awebd
http://www.webalice.it/dg3011/index.htm
- Original Message -
From: Arto Wikla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2008
Dear List,
I am a lutenist who promised to himself to never get involved with
Baroque guitar...
A couple of months ago I had the chance to play a very nice one for a
week and simply felt in love. I am therefore looking for a reasonable
instrument (vaulted-back) without having to wait the
He doesn't, of course - the terminology - and the mathematical
analysis - weren't worked out until much later. But his instructions
for tuning/fret placement result in 1/6 comma meantone tuning. More
or less...
In his day, was he out-numbered by ET tuning lutenists? My basic
Le 6 nov. 08 à 20:34, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Dear David and David,
Another line of research considers treating the
soundboard with chemicals. I noticed this New Scientist article
(which you may well know) and which claims a strad's sound could be
partly due to treatment with wood
Hans Gerle was in denial? Perhaps this explains the feelings of
frustration and inner sadness found in some of his music (that he
played quite happily in 1/6 comma meantone).
On 7 Nov 2008, at 09:09, Martyn Hodgson wrote:
...
Catch also, and amusingly, points out the denial in the face of
On 11/7/2008, igor . [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dog and Donatella are probably deaf !
I've tried to work on that Igor. Don't still get the idea. I suppose
Donatella as a musician cannot be deaf. And our dogs certainly are not
deaf considering their eager when somebody goes to eat
If someone will send the measurements for the Gerle I'll hook it up
to my measurement microphones and see if it works, I can't see how it
would of could but I'm happy to measure it.
If it plays in tune I can ditch my Tastini :)
If you send measurements please do so in cents so the result will be
la luth devrait joue comme ca :
[1]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5_vlaRa_Y
e arciliuto dovrebbe essere svolto in questo modo :
[2]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3fyUoKSGVQ
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References
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQ5_vlaRa_Y
2.
so today, after much sitting, reading, thinking and petting my cats I
have decided. 1/4 comma is my new temperament.
First i took my lute out of her nice bed, few strings jumped from the
drastic temperature changes here in the last few days. With a nice A4
piece of paper and a
Just for fun, we put the lute and the harpsichord in meantone for
bunch of pieces in our last show. I used David v Ooijen's system,
with stcky tape. I went for the clear tape cause I'm so style concious.
It was sticky, but no more so than practicing while eating a
Croissant with jam and butter.
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