Has anybody gotten this to work on Windows 7? It seems to run fine
except that I can't get it to recognize any sound input.
Craig
Craig R. Pierpont
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--- On Sat, 2/4/12, Sam Chapman manchap...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Sam Chapman
Naphtha (lighter fluid) will remove it without hurting most finishes.
Craig
Craig R. Pierpont
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--- On Tue, 1/17/12, Herbert Ward wa...@physics.utexas.edu wrote:
From: Herbert Ward wa...@physics.utexas.edu
Subject: [LUTE] Beeswax
The Bow Brand Harp Strings are a lacquered beef gut. A better choice
may be Pirastro strings which are a oiled sheep gut string. They offer
a lacquered also so be sure to request the oiled if that is what you
want. They are hard to find on the Pirastro website so -
See:
agno3ph...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re : [LUTE] Re: Pulling on your gut harp strings
To: Craig Robert Pierpont crpierp...@yahoo.com
Date: Monday, November 28, 2011, 9:23 AM
But which is it, or both; do you play the harp in out doors?
Anthony
Light the end of one with a match. It will be obvious pretty quickly
if they are gut or synthetic.
Craig
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--- On Thu, 11/17/11, Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
From: Monica Hall mjlh...@tiscali.co.uk
Hi David,
The tensile strength of Dupont Tynex Nylon is 44600 lbs per square
inch which Google translates as 31 356 903.3 kg / m2.
Craig
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--- On Sat, 6/25/11, David Tayler vidan...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
From:
I have used these Savarez KF strings on harps for some time now. I
understood the original post to be about some newer version.
I ave no way to ferret the truth out of Savarez's promo material. I
don;t know if they discovered the formula in a cave or have found some
suitable type
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It seems that I remember hearing something of this but little more
than you have mentioned here. I would be interested in finding out
more. Being primarily a harpbuilder, I know most of the harp repair
people likely to have been at this convention. (If it was the
convention in St.
Hello Charles,
Consider posting your request to the Yahoo Harplist and the Yahoo
HistoricalHarplist.
Craig
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--- On Fri, 10/16/09, Charles Browne char...@brownecowie.fsnet.co.uk
wrote:
From: Charles Browne
The Harp lists are almost the opposite.
Craig
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--- On Thu, 9/10/09, Peter Martin peter.l...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Peter Martin peter.l...@gmail.com
Subject: [LUTE] Imbalance
To: Lute list
Howard,
One of the most interesting things of following this list is to watch
Roman get worked up about something. You should not take it personally.
It's what he does. It's delightfully unamerican. Every now and then I
think of coming up with something just to torque him up for
It is summertime. The humidity is high. High humidity causes wood to
swell causing pegs to stick. Simply moving the instrument to a dryer
environment for a few weeks may help.
Craig
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--- On Wed, 8/6/08, [EMAIL
Hello Howard,
Welcome to the Lute list. Thanks for the review of this tuner. Très intéressant.
On the subject of electronic tuners, Does anybody have any experience with the
StroboSoft Software tuners from Peterson?
Craig
Craig R. Pierpont
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George
Stewart and Neil,
There are many reasons to but directly from a builder such as the chance to
use the builder as a resource in your lute buying decisions and the opportunity
to have a lute built for you rather than buying what is on hand now.
However, if you buy through a store, the store
Sorry about that. Hit the wrong button. Anyhow, you will probably pay much the
same from a store or from a builder. The store adds a mark-up to stay in
business, but the builder, when he sells retail incurs many of the same
expenses. Perhaps more significantly, the builder cannot afford to have
Anthony,
My appologies, perhaps I was being a little clever there.
My experience is only with American Black Walnut. European Walnut is not
as strong and could work out differently.
So, referring to American Black Walnut:
Walnut wood is not oily.
Walnut wood
What a great question! Having nothing to contribute, I eagerly await a response
from some more knowledgeable than I.
Craig
Werner Bogula [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi experts,
over the holiday season I read some books about the history of Spain
and the musical culture of the
A general comment on the subject of string tension:
Higher tension strings allow you to pluck harder without problems, but they
take a harder pluck to achieve the same amount of vibration as lower tension
strings.
Thus as a starting premise; If a high tension string and a low
Could someone please post the Url to the site on which to hear the Sting album.
I can't seem to find it.
Thanks,
Craig
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I tried to listen, but hardly made it through the first two excerpts. The
lutenist reminds
me of all these classical guitarrists who show-off
Has anybody considered the possibility that it is not a sword but some sort of
stick specifically employed for the purpose of a lute rest? Unlikely? Perhaps,
but significant if so, especially if something like it appears similarly
elsewhere.
Craig
Craig R. Pierpont
Another Era Lutherie
It would be interesting if someone put into their checked baggage one of those
electronic thermometers that stores a maximum and minum temperature (and
humidity) reading.
Craig
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated
Chris,
Without saying anything about this instrument itself, let me say that the
builder's situation is not that all unusual.
It goes like this: I build instruments. I have my own ideas about what I
want to build and how I want to build it.
The client says Oh I love that
Bill
I know that this doesn't go directly to your question, but harp strings
are usually dyed red for C and blue for F. Part of the dying process involves
boiling or close to it. On new nylon strings (except from being really flexible
while they are still hot) the boiling has no noticable
Bill,
This is an interesting question for which I have no answer. Consider the
likelihood that a playing style developed with a quill of several inches in
length would very likely differ considerably from the relatively loose wristed
playing style of modern players using a short Fender style
But what is the purpose here? Styrofoam is light but a poor resonator.
Craig
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Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Greet:
That would be a possibility, You are talking about hollowing it out and filling
the void with some sort
Vance,
Then the purest would be playing on a 300 year old instrument, something few
people 300 years ago would have been doing.
Craig
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Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Carl:
Should not the purist play only real
museum instruments
It should be noted that the momofiliment for nylon strings is not being made
exclusively for instrument strings. The price of nylon strings is kept down
because the great volume of this stuff is being produced for industrial
purposes. What we need is a military use for gut strings. Then
Been there. Done that. And I gotta tell you, it's one of those things that
either you like it or you don't.
Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HAve you ever considered hedgehogs'
mating procedures?
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Patrick
Do not! Do not miss Museé de la Musique! (Which you have referred to as
the Music Museum) Most of instruments from the public Museums in Paris have
been gathered there so there is very little in the others. If you see something
on the website that you'd particularly like to examine,
We obviously have a difference of opinion here. I would be interested to see
Martyn's historical evidence. I have heard of using double fret loops for so
long that I took it as a given that this was always an option of varying
popularity, but the question being raised, I can't remember where
Herbert,
Lighter strings will never hurt the instrument. If you try them and like
them, stick with them. As far as the frets, if after tring the lighter strings,
there is then a problem that you think may be cured by the lighter frets, try
them. If there isn't a problem, don't mess.
Craig
Gee Michael,
I don't understand. Surely it is possible to angle the neck back to the
point that the strings actually touch the neck at the neck/body joint unless
you raise the bridge correspondingly. It would also be possible to angle the
neck up (foreward) until the strings were
Does anybody know what this is?
Craig
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Have fun online with music videos,
Oh goody! I'm so glad that the lute has finally made it to this level of
American haut culture. We need hide in shame no more.
Craig
Leonard Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Last night's season finale of The Simpson's featured a lute solo by
Otto, the school bus driver, at the Medieval
I may be over my head here but, if this is legitimate, it is likely that what
is being blocked is the sender because the sender is not on the recipient's
list of known senders. If your message is sent to the lute list, the recipient
will get the message, since he has presumably cleared the lute
Looks like scalloped ribs?
Craig
Wayne Cripps [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have pictures of the old instrument at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/Raillich/
Jiri Cepelak has looked at it, apparently.
Wayne
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The Cherry available commercially in the states is black cherry and is quite
soft. Softer than most maples or walnut. It turns OK but tends to get a but
furry if the tools aren't sharp.
Craig
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timothy motz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tim,
I think you will find that Delrin is too flexible for pegs. They would
probably twist along their length as you tried to turn the peg.
Craig
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Timothy Motz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It did occur to me to wonder if pegs turned
Martin,
PVF stands for polyvinyl fluoride. I seem to remember that it is actually
polyvinyl carbon floride but I'm not certain.
Craig
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Martin Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear All,
Can we get carbon and carbon fibre properly
Thanks Arto and Jon,
The number Arto gave is very close to the number I had. It just seemed
pretty dense but I guess that's the idea. It will mean some pretty thin strings
to keep the tension from getting too high.
Arto, (I wish I knew any other language as well as you do English.) What I
Well Bill, that was offensive.
As a luthier I am very interested in Mr. Peruffo's strings. If I am to
discuss them intelligently with a client, I need to know what I'm talking
about. It will not do for me just to say Well, Bill likes them, so shut up and
don't ask questions.
Me thinks
Do you have many friends in America, Rosi?
David Cameron
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You might try making a series of section templates as if you sliced the bowl
crossways in several places. It is also helpful to make duplicates of these and
cut them in halves (or thirds or quarters, whatever is convenient) as the full
template may not be much help until you are pretty close
A man stumbled into the emergency room dressed in a medieval bard's outfit,
clutching his stomach with one hand and moaning in agony. With his free hand he
was clutching a lute, which he dropped on the floor in front of the nurse's
station. He then collapsed in a heap on the floor, rolled
Stewart,
I think several of us were of the opinion that the damage to the fibers that
would result from using such a plane would preclude their use in the making of
a quality instrument. It would be somewhat like building a lute using veneer
for the ribs.
I remember reading that there
Garry,
While not impossible, it seems unlikely as such a plane causes considerable
distortion and fracturing of the wood fibers.
Garry Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Lutenists,
Is it possible that renaissance and baroque luthiers could
have used the predecessor of the Spelk plane (it
I hate to prolong this discussion overmuch but I couldn't let this go
unanswered.
The thousands of women and children killed and maimed in the American
president's adventure are in no way helped by calling their abuse, hurt and
killing unintentional.
When you shoot into a crowd you don't get
What it could mean is that 3 lute players are not enough to bring peace to
Israel. Thus the obvious solution is that Israel needs more lute players.
Craig
Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tony, are you implying that Israel (home of at least 3 lute players, with a
pair of lute-playing
Doesn't work for me either.
Craig
Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Neither is mine, after clearing the cache.
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But my IE can't find this site!
www.clivetitmuss.com
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Also, you might check out Gilmer Wood Co. www.gilmerwood.com/ . I get quarter rived
Sitka Spruce from them. They wil resaw it for you. It has always been vary high
quality stuff.
Craig
Another Era Lutherie
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Steve Ramey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Herb,
What others have
Actually I meant what I said. Without belaboring the point, whether you think of the
tuning of 16c 4 cs guitar tunings (g,c,e,a or a,c,e,a) as reentrant or not depends on
if you think of the bourdon as the primary or secondary string. Assuming that you are
using a one at all. (The practice of
It's not just lutes. It's a constant problem for harpmakers also and, I suspect, any
easily shipable product selling for over $1000.
Craig
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It can be a bunch of people talking about their politics, their love life and their
grand children who happen to play lute
or
It can be a bunch of people talking about lutes who happen to have politics, love
lives and grandchildren.
Craig
Craig R. Pierpont
Hi List,
I am looking at some tablature and there are some markings I am not sure how to
interpret. This is 16 th century French tablature. Directly under about half of the
notes is a dot. ? In the bottom space of many of the measures is a rising diagonal
line. Sometimes there are two. These
Hi List,
I am looking at some tablature and there are some markings I am not sure how to
interpret. This is 16 th century French tablature. Directly under about half of the
notes is a dot. ? In the bottom space of many of the measures is a rising diagonal
line. Sometimes there are two. These
Hi List,
Thanks for all your input on the tabulature questions. I've always been a play by
the notes kind of guy but I'm taking a long over due look at the tablatures and I
appreciate all your help.
Thanks,
Craig
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