[LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread Franz Mechsner
__ Von: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu im Auftrag von David van Ooijen Gesendet: Sa 30.01.2010 09:27 An: Lute List Betreff: [LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics? On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:04 AM,

[LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread David van Ooijen
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 9:52 AM, Franz Mechsner franz.mechs...@northumbria.ac.uk wrote: - so what is love??? ... Every wise man's son doth know. Shakespeare -- *** David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com www.davidvanooijen.nl *** To

[LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread Franz Mechsner
- so what is love??? ... Every wise man's son doth know. Shakespeare DOES HE? DO YOU? MAYBE NOT KNOWING IS KNOWING IF YOU DO SO WITH LOVE... AT LEAST YOU SEEM A MAN OF TASTE; INTELLIGENCE AND HEART, DAVID - I LOVE YOUR STYLE F -- To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: Tr :Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread Anthony Hind
I have had problems with loss of paragraph and line breaks, which have quite put me off messaging, so I will try using a AS: symbol to indicate paragraph break, and see if that works. Hello Jaroslaw Last year, I went to a poetry reading which was accompanied with oud,

[LUTE] Re: Tr :Re: Paragraph problem (test)

2010-01-30 Thread Anthony Hind
I have had problems with loss of paragraph and line breaks, which have quite put me off messaging, so I will try using a S: symbol to indicate paragraph break, and see if that works. Oh, of course the symbol was changed into as, so I think, I will just have to write PARA, for

[LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread Christopher Stetson
I didn't know you were such a romantic, David! David van Ooijen davidvanooi...@gmail.com 1/30/2010 3:27 AM On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 2:04 AM, Stephen Stubbs theother1...@sbcglobal.net wrote: double strings on the 2nd (D) course and 3rd (A) course. How about stringing 1

[LUTE] Re: Objet : Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread chriswilke
Dan, --- On Fri, 1/29/10, Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net wrote: Well, Chris, I still advise reading Mimmo Peruffo's web page, The Lute in it's Historical Reality, at least for the information assembled by a truly dedicated lifetime player, researcher, string maker. I've read

[LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread Stephen Arndt
AT LEAST YOU SEEM A MAN OF TASTE; INTELLIGENCE AND HEART, DAVID - I LOVE YOUR STYLE I'll second that. Stephen Arndt To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Objet : Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel Winheld
(Note that, in addition to his researches into historical strings, he is also one of our leading makers of synthetics!) And thank God for that. I've bought far more type D and Nylgut (and now also have his apparently more gut like type DE copper overspuns on order) for my strange archlute,

[LUTE] Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel Winheld
Seven years is minimum. I have a tin peanut brittle box with old and newish gut strings- used unused- going back to the late 1970's. The Ancient Gutpile- authentic gut strings that the old (and aging) lute players used to use way back in the 20th century. The way to go is to go all the way.

[LUTE] Re: Tr :Re: Objet : Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread Anthony Hind
Chris I have not read such blanket performance proclamations in this thread. I think we are all aware that each lutenist has to choose according to their preferences, and among those must be their degree of tolerance to tuning issues, etc.. Having said that, there is no

[LUTE] Re: Tr :Re: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-30 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Hello Anthony, It's so nice to hear you again! Unfortunately I have computer related problems as well. Instead of certain fonts the small box with letters inside appears on some sites. Do I lack some fonts in my laptop? Anyway, back to Oud players. I think their world is in close relation to

[LUTE] LSA Summer Seminar Registration Open

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel F Heiman
Seminar Director Phil Rukavina has put together a very nice program for the 2010 LSA Summer Seminar, and descriptive material together with a registration form are posted on the Seminars page of the LSA website. Please join us for a week of immersion in all things lute at the end of June.