[LUTE] Re: My cat is playing the lute! Where can I get free tabs?

Nice one! .. And, just in case someone of you would like to travel a thousand years farther back in time from the Golden Age of Lute music for cat inspiration, here is some piece of heroic poetry that can be chanted with dramatic voice while plucking pentatonic improvisation on a six-stringed

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

As a (now retired) geophysicist, I sometimes think in metric, sometimes in traditional units, sometimes in "machinists' metric" (inches and .001 inches), and sometimes in "surveyors' metric" (feet, tenths of feet, hundredths of feet...). Sometimes I think it makes my head hurt. On the other

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

Ah, but Voyager is still going strong after 40 years. Voyager and its ‘Golden Record' are still going ~38,000 mph, about 13 billion miles from our sun. One of the musical selections chosen by Carl Sagan was a performance of Holborne's ‘Fairie Rownde' by David Munrow and The Early

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

in Eastern Slavic languages that break is at 20. RT On 1/29/2018 10:03 AM, mjlh...@cs.dartmouth.edu wrote: Interestingly in Catalan the break seems to occur between sixteen and seventeen - quinze, setze, disset, perhaps because it is half way between Italian and Spanish. In Latin from which

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

Because of the constant clinging to weird units, we already lost an expensive Mars probe :) Am 29.01.2018 um 12:55 schrieb Christopher Stetson: And, to continue Monica's thoughts, the change Rainer is speaking of took place long before there were any standards for teachers at all.

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

> On Jan 29, 2018, at 1:37 AM, Rainer wrote: > > I always thought that there must have been (sort of) an official reform. > > At least teachers must have a common opinion what to teach children. > > Apparently there was none in England. Nothing is official in the

[LUTE] Re: My cat is playing the lute! Where can I get free tabs?

Does this post fall into your first category Ron? In the past, I have observed (as I do) that the lion's share of posts cropping up on the lute list fall into one of three categories: 1) Selfies (look at my new video, instrument, cat...), On 29/01/2018 17:36, Ron Andrico wrote:

[BAROQUE-LUTE] Moravsky MS (CZ Brno D189) - a fresh tack!

Dear Monica, As you now know, I haven't yet replied to your latest open mailings since these had both ended by saying that you 'were going to leave it for now' and I therefore took this as meaning I might soon expect something further. Accordingly, not wishing to respond in a

[LUTE] Re: My cat is playing the lute! Where can I get free tabs?

Cats playing lutes is great. I also like cats playing the samisen: [1]https://i.pinimg.com/originals/63/65/ea/6365eaca812630279eb6228aa609 d1ff.jpg A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Francisco Goya On Jan 29, 2018, at 2:22 AM, David Morales

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

The speedometer in my car reads out in ‘furlongs per fortnight', but what does this have to do with lutes? A. John Mardinly, Ph.D., P.E. The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters Francisco Goya On Jan 29, 2018, at 2:37 AM, Rainer <[1]rads.bera_g...@t-online.de> wrote: A

[LUTE] Re: Gilded Roses

When this topic was up on the list the last time, ten lutes with gilded roses were said to survive, all of the first half of the 17th century. Mathias __ Gesendet mit der [1]Telekom Mail App --- Original-Nachricht

[LUTE] Re: My cat is playing the lute! Where can I get free tabs?

Thanks for your kind words, Tristan. Cats always follow other cats, so by showing our cats, hopefully, you can play some duets in the near future :D Forget about cat gut, cats don't fully support that practice in my experience El 29 ene. 2018 5:08 p. m., "Leonard Williams"

[LUTE] Re: My cat is playing the lute! Where can I get free tabs?

Advisory on cats and lutes: On Lutestrings Catt-Eaten. [Thomas Master, 1603-1643] Are these the strings that poets feigne Have clear'd the Ayre, and calm'd the mayne? Charm'd wolves, and from the mountaine creasts Made forests dance with all their beasts? Could these neglected shreads you see

[LUTE] Re: My cat is playing the lute! Where can I get free tabs?

Apart from my post being a joke ;-) Thanks for the info! The search engine is set up well, I like it! ..and thanks for supporting Lukas Henning's ingenious youtube channel (which anyone here should really check out) Am 29.01.2018 um 10:22 schrieb David Morales: Hello, Let me please

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

Two other survivors of the American attempt at the metric conversion: booze and tools. Alcohol is sold in metric units whether domestic or imported - typically 750ml (nearly all wine bottles), 1 liter and 1.75 (why not just make it 2 liters?). Tools like wrenches, etc. are often

[LUTE] Re: Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690

On 29.01.2018 15:44, Daniel Shoskes wrote: "That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence" Christopher Hitchens This is much older: “Quod gratis asseritur, gratis negatur.” See

[LUTE] Re: Gilded Roses

There are 23 copies available from abebooks.com Search on Rueger (author) and Decoration (title). Just two words will get you a complete list. The prices range from $1.09 (yes, nine cents plus one dollar!) to $20+. abebooks.com is an international network of antiquarian (second

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

Interestingly in Catalan the break seems to occur between sixteen and seventeen - quinze, setze, disset, perhaps because it is half way between Italian and Spanish. In Latin from which both languages derive it seems to come between ten and eleven - decem, undecim. No obvious logic. Not that

[LUTE] Re: Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690

"That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence" Christopher Hitchens Sent from my iPad On Jan 29, 2018, at 11:53 AM, howard posner <[1]howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: Where I come from, the party asserting a fact has the burden of proving it.

[LUTE] Re: Gilded Roses

You could see if there is anything in this book devoted to the decoration of historical instruments (translated from German): Musical Instruments and Their decoration. Historical Gems of European Culture by Christoph Rueger Alexander Batov has dedicated a webpage to late 16th

[LUTE] Gilded Roses

Hi all-- so what info do we have about gilded roses on lutes? I think the lute I'm building now needs her rose gilded. Thanks Sterling Price Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

Rainer & other linguaphiles-- I find it interesting that different languages have different "breakpoints" in the teens: Spanish between 15 and 16 (quince, dieciseis), Italian 16 and 17 (seidici, diciassette), English 12 and 13 (twelve, thirteen)--the ones I know. What's that

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

And, to continue Monica's thoughts, the change Rainer is speaking of took place long before there were any standards for teachers at all. it also depends on time and place. In the United States, we have certainly had standards for teachers for several decades, including grammar,

[LUTE] Re: four and twenty

There is never likely to be any official reform of the English language. And teachers don't have a common opinion on what to teach children. The policy is to leave children to find everything out for themselves. As ever Monica Original Message From: rads.bera_g...@t-online.de Date:

[LUTE] four and twenty

A clarification: I always thought that there must have been (sort of) an official reform. At least teachers must have a common opinion what to teach children. Apparently there was none in England. In Germany from time to time "mathematicians" propose to change the German system since the

[LUTE] Re: My cat is playing the lute! Where can I get free tabs?

Hello, Let me please suggest our tablatures search engine ([1]http://cuerdaspulsadas.es/blog/buscador-de-tablaturas/) At this moment, only Sarge Gerbode's collection is indexed but you can find lots of great tabs there. And... here you have our "Cats" initiative, where cats

[LUTE] Re: Four and Twenty Fiddlers: The Violin at the English Court, 1540-1690

Where I come from, the party asserting a fact has the burden of proving it. But we’re not really talking about facts (and certainly not about “news”) here, just a sweeping generalized opinion about the crabbiness of more than 50 percent of the lute players in the world. You tend not to