[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread Rob MacKillop
It sounds great to my ears. Hopefully this will help the 4c guitar lierature become better known. Even though 4c guitars are a lot less expensive than 5c guitars, they are still prohibitively expensive for beginners. A uke can cost less than a set of strings for a 4c, and really

[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread wolfgang wiehe
sounds very good, werner! I think ursabella will enjoy your new tool! w. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

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2009-07-17 Thread Bernd Haegemann
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[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread gary digman
Or Robert B-1 Bob Dornan. Gary - Original Message - From: Eugene C. Braig IV brai...@osu.edu To: 'howard posner' howardpos...@ca.rr.com; 'lute mailing list list' lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 11:03 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar ..not

[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread Leonard Williams
I've thought for some time of getting a cheap uke and restringing it to play stuff like Mudarra's work for four course guitar. I thought I might be kidding myself, but it looks like a viable option, from what I'm reading here. Any suggestions as to size (mensur) and string

[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread Rob MacKillop
I play a Concert-sized uke, the size larger than the usual soprano, but I think a tenor would be better-suited, with a low fourth string (Aquila). And don't buy the cheapest. Good tenors start around -L-120 - about 150 dollars. A student of mine has an excellent one by a company

[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread Eugene C. Braig IV
Recent Oscar Schmidt instruments are the budget line for the new Korean-made incarnation of Washburn (i.e., the curiously-named-for-a-Korean-build US Music Corp.). The pre-depression Oscar Schmidt Co. was a builder in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA. They were always a builder of rather

[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread Rob MacKillop
Newer. Bought on a holiday cruise to Hawaii ;-) Is this off topic, or what Rob 2009/7/17 Eugene C. Braig IV [1]brai...@osu.edu Recent Oscar Schmidt instruments are the budget line for the new Korean-made incarnation of Washburn (i.e., the

[LUTE] Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread wayne cripps
You know, I used to run a ukulele mailing list, along with the lute list, but it sort of softly and silently faded away.. I suppose that I could bring it back. Jim Belov's site seems to be the place for uke discussions now. I have a nice Earnest soprano and a very cheap baritone. Wayne

[LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar

2009-07-17 Thread EUGENE BRAIG IV
Way off. Oh well... Eugene - Original Message - From: Rob MacKillop luteplay...@googlemail.com Date: Friday, July 17, 2009 6:58 pm Subject: [LUTE] Re: Ukulele and Renaissance Guitar To: Eugene C. Braig IV brai...@osu.edu Cc: Lute List lute@cs.dartmouth.edu