[LUTE] Re: abc tab

2010-11-16 Thread Daniel Winheld
For what instrument and purpose, exactly? Is 10 the maximum number of courses? Thx, E.C. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: new piece of the month

2010-11-08 Thread Daniel Winheld
Do it again and this time throw in a few more. Sounded damn good to me. Better yet- EDIT some bloopers in! Wouldn't that be what's called reverse engineering? I forgot to say, I threw in a few bum notes just to keep everybody happy Martin -- To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: OT: Baroque Guitar technique

2010-11-08 Thread Daniel Winheld
My wife just got me two new shirts, new socks, a wool vest and hat for the recent birthday I just suffered. And a bottle of 2nd best Oban. So while losing out on the better/younger aspect of playing, my looks and wardrobe are now second to none. For a while. Dan- older, worser, but bravely

[LUTE] Re: OT: Baroque Guitar technique

2010-11-07 Thread Daniel Winheld
An avant-garde ex-rock guitarist I work with told me just two days ago that he would rather give a mediocre live performance than put out a great CD. (And I happen to own a fine CD that he put out a few years ago.) Dan Live music is great! A typical classical music CD has 800 edits, a

[LUTE] OT: Guitar technique

2010-11-07 Thread Daniel Winheld
A question for the players of standard modern classical guitar on this list (I am on no other)- I have not played classical guitar (nor owned one) since 1975, so don't even know what e-list, forum or whatever to consult. Can any of you tell me if there are editions of the collected guitar

[LUTE] Re: OT: Guitar technique

2010-11-07 Thread Daniel Winheld
My thanks to all who have responded so quickly helpfully. Looks like I will be in touch with the Villa-Lobos Museum very soon. Dan http://www.villalobos.ca/node/1217 and http://www.stanleyyates.com/articles/hvl/hvl.html will surely be of interest to you. Concerning the

[LUTE] Re: Orlando Gibbons

2010-10-28 Thread Daniel Winheld
Yes- Earl of Salisbury's Pavan- which I think is also sometimes attributed to Byrd. (Or Byrd wrote one of his own by that name?). And dt mentions the Italian ground- which I also used to play off the keyboard score some years ago; as I remember it fits on the lute perfectly. A 9 or 10 course

[LUTE] Re: Orlando Gibbons

2010-10-27 Thread Daniel Winheld
He wrote keyboard solos (Fitzwilliam Virginal book no doubt others); but chiefly known for vocal consort stuff. Do you mean actual lute solos? I've only seen a couple of guitar transcriptions from the 20th century- any old lute intabs (such as were done with a few of Byrd's keyboard pieces)

[LUTE] Re: In My Life

2010-10-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
Me three- but lute 'n voice also works for me because of the live-in soprano who always seems to be in my life. One of her favorite songs by these composers as well... For me - solo lute (If you'd ever heard me sing, you wouldn't have to ask) Joseph Mayes -- To get on or off this list

[LUTE] Re: Metronome

2010-09-20 Thread Daniel Winheld
And a dozen iPhones = 1 gross of metronomes. There is a composition by Gyorgi Ligeti, Symphonique for 100 metronomes - an experimental work, literally what it says on the box. There are also a dozen very good metronomes for iPhone in the free to $3 range. dt -- --

[LUTE] Re: New Nylgut?

2010-09-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
And another Big (String) Spender (I just dropped a $$$ wad on Dan Larson for long overdue strings for my vihuela archlute) welcomes this news. I had heard- never tried it out- that the old dead-bone-white nylgut could be dyed by Rit dye, of all things. Don't know if it would affect the

[LUTE] Re: Metronome

2010-09-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
One of my lute students recommends the Dr Beat metronome. They have three models. http://www.bosscorp.co.jp/products/en/DB-60/index.html Neat - I love it! Ned On Sep 18, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Daniel Winheld wrote: Check this out. http://www.rhythmsource.com/demo/ -- Rachel Winheld 820

[LUTE] Re: Metronome

2010-09-18 Thread Daniel Winheld
Check this out. http://www.rhythmsource.com/demo/ -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Newsidler's Lamora, Benedictus, La Bernadina Unnecessarie Zen

2010-09-10 Thread Daniel Winheld
I have another take on this. Study slowly and precisely. Streamlining the motion of both hands. In other words, know what the fingers do, get rid of superfluous movements and work on muscle memory. Slowly, don't speed up. Don't fall into the trap of studying your mistakes. Chop the runs into

[LUTE] Used lute pricing

2010-07-18 Thread Daniel Winheld
An appeal to the collective wisdom- Is there anyone on the list who could suggest any ballpark parameters for pricing a Herb Hendrickson lute from the mid 1970's? This is an 8 course, largish (63.4 mm SL) tenor lute, immaculate condition, finely made- but with a string clearance of only 4 mm

[LUTE] Aquila DE strings.

2010-07-18 Thread Daniel Winheld
And another question for the collective- Has anyone tried the Aquila type DE copper overspun lute strings? They are supposed to be closer in sound to the loaded gut basses than the regular type D, but it seems that I cannot get them in the USA- would have to negotiate directly with Mimmo, at

[LUTE] Re: A Draft Idea

2010-06-07 Thread Daniel Winheld
Just recently I tuned up at the dress-rehearsal at noon, and I didn't have to tune 7hrs later for the actual concert. Long live carbon. RT Hear hear, here! I just had a gig that would have been lute tuning hell (St. Mark's Lutheran, San Francisco) if my archlute had been dressed in gut for the

[LUTE] Re: Synthetic strings sounding like a bad guitar? ;-)

2010-06-03 Thread Daniel Winheld
Arto- Some instruments can tolerate, and will respond to synthetics better than others; I am particularly lucky with my archlute- nylon 1st 2nd, carbon for 3, 4, and 5; and almost tolerable copper overspun basses. low tension (I follow Toyohiko Satoh's recommendations) and careful touch are

[LUTE] [LUTE]Hi Ed- (was matched continuo instruments)

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Winheld
And what a pleasure for those of us in the San Francisco Bay Area to meet our friend Ed Durbrow in person. He brought with him a fine little 8 course lute (who was the luthier?) that is going to gut; and he has composed two beautiful settings of poems by Shakespeare; I forget where they are

[LUTE] Re: Swedish violin/lute picture - ID/date

2010-04-04 Thread Daniel Winheld
Just for comparison with the cello strings- a close up of my vihuela, 7th course fundamental D, (a = 409) 1.52 mm. First generation loaded gut from Mimmo Peruffo. 6th course G, one string is a Dan Larson Pistoy, 1.39 mm. (Had to use a gimp for the unison, all that was available when I could no

[LUTE] Re: HIP, was string tension of all things

2010-03-29 Thread Daniel Winheld
Sun Ra, of course. http://missioncreep.com/mw/sunra.html World - I challenge any musicologist or casual fan to demonstrate a piece of music that didn't originate on our world. Eugene -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: HIP, was string tension of all things

2010-03-29 Thread Daniel Winheld
Pythagoras would say Music of the spheres? Those would be the fat ladies; it ain't over 'til they sing. Maybe, these days, they shouldn't. On 29 Mar 2010, at 21:23, Eugene C. Braig IV wrote: Since we seem to have drifted a fair distance from string tensions, you've omitted what I find

[LUTE] Re: String tension

2010-03-27 Thread Daniel Winheld
Great thread- thanks, guys. These are the two gems that I will try to remember: The result is that certain historical instruments perform a scholarly disappearing act because the terminology has been regularized. There is so much 20th century baroque performance practice (I

[LUTE] Re: Bakfark's fantasias

2010-03-07 Thread Daniel Winheld
No worse than Melchior Neusidler. But that's already bad enough. I actually got one of them nailed down about 95%, years ago- must dig it out now, and have another go at it. I don't know about the Leclair, but I found the Bach partitas for violin which I didn't know I had- tried the d-minor

[LUTE] Re: Lachrimae pavan

2010-03-06 Thread Daniel Winheld
PARALLEL UNISONS! -But very nice anyway. Four strings is all you need, with enough talent. Thanks, Val. I commit a non-orthodox and non-hip version of Lachrimae Pavan, using the arrangement by Jamie Holding. Purists, please, don't watch... -- To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: Theorbo arpeggiation

2010-02-28 Thread Daniel Winheld
Hello Martin, I can't address the theorbic implications, but I am very interested to see that first bit, where i does a single, selected rest stroke in order to play the course it comes to rest on following the m stroke is exactly what I've been doing on the d-minor Baroque lute in many

[LUTE] Re: Dowland's Lachrimae

2010-02-23 Thread Daniel Winheld
but I await word from the experts... And the experts have spoken! When the rubber of canon meets the road of practice, things seem to get a little muddy. DvO I hear the third on the 4th quarter being held into the fifth. and Stewart but the treble moves to b flat (d1)before moving to the E

[LUTE] Re: Bach for two

2010-02-23 Thread Daniel Winheld
And the lautenverse owes you another hearty Thank you - I have been considering how to get some of my students into a graceful way to start reading pitch notation; you know, music. This is good. Dan Every Tuesday I have the pleasure of playing through the two-part inventions of Bach

[LUTE] Re: Dowland's Lachrimae

2010-02-22 Thread Daniel Winheld
First part of the answer: I'm not Nigel North ;-) Nigel is playing thumb out, which does enable the middle-index finger runs at high speed a bit easier. I can play middle index runs fairly well thumb in, but not as fast, easily- or naturally- as thumb out. The eternal conundrum of which way to

[LUTE] Re: Dowland's Lachrimae

2010-02-22 Thread Daniel Winheld
Ron- Thank you again for another great gift to the lute list community! Dan Hello Graham: You'll find the version you seek posted on our website in pdf form. http://editions.mignarda.com/downloads.html The divisions probably are by Dowland - I don't especially care whose

[LUTE] Re: Dowland's Lachrimae

2010-02-22 Thread Daniel Winheld
somehow I have a blind spot: I still dont see the fifths!). I think going from the last chord in the first measure (low open G, still providing bass note from 3rd beat with open 2nd course d) -moving to first chord of 2nd measure, E-flat b-flat e chord. G-d to E-flat-b-flat are parallel

[LUTE] Re: Louisiana and the Sun King, Louis XIV

2010-02-21 Thread Daniel Winheld
And another fascinating character was Joseph de Bologne, Carribean/Afro-French musician and martial artist, but thoroughly Euorocentric, culturally. A hell of a story, though. Joseph de Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was one of the most remarkable figures of the 18th

[LUTE] Re: New frets

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
Getting very interesting- I now remember (it was so long ago) when I got my first lute from the builder (Hugh Gough, NYC, 1973 approx.) he instructed me in the double fret method, not super thin but certainly thinner than today's typical singles- he also advised wetting them for a minute in

[LUTE] Re: New frets

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
On the other hand, they were also not blissfully sitting still all the time- a contemporary account of the great Pietro Bono describes his playing as ...Storming from the very bottom to the top of the lute's range... and other words suggestive of the technical level of a Joe Pass or Django

[LUTE] Re: Louisiana and the Sun King, Louis XIV

2010-02-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
A corruption of the original Acadian What is truly amazing is the matched set of baroque accordians which presumably were the basis for the Cajun accordion, the originals now at Tulane. d And let us not overlook the precursors of the baroque accordian, the renaissance harmonica and

[LUTE] Re: New frets

2010-02-18 Thread Daniel Winheld
Do it twice! HEY! It's the SINGLE frets that ain't HIP - look at that damn picture again- (you know, the one with the boreless Oboe Muto) Is there any known historical information about single frets? Maybe Mace mentioned them? Don't want to make trouble- just askin' Dan Honestly, it

[LUTE] Re: Strange lute in French painting

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel Winheld
David Van Edwards has of course nailed the lute perfectly- there is a picture of one being played about 1/3 way down on this page (Brief history of the lute, part 3) from his website, between the Des Moulins 11 course and the better known double headed Dutch lute.

[LUTE] Re: Strange lute in French painting

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel Winheld
It's down at the bottom, next to what appears to be a plate on edge; dangerously close to the parsnips. It appears that the bell is of a different wood than the body; and on the whole it somewhat resembles an extraordinary oboe played extraordinarily well by Gonzalo X. Ruiz a few weeks ago-

[LUTE] Re: Strange lute in French painting

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel Winheld
Maybe it's both (Emergency at the oboe players house- Honey, could you stop practicing for a minute and come grind this garlic?) Oboe? I'd think pestle mortar :) -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Strange lute in French painting

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel Winheld
Damn it, I want to see Gonzalo's oboe again. The last time we had parsnips they were much too tough, and the finger holes didn't help a bit. I think David was kidding about the oboe (hence the :) sign). The objects Dan describes do not resemble any oboe da caccia I've seen. The

[LUTE] Re: Strange lute in French painting

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel Winheld
No reason parsnips and woodwinds can't get along: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpfYt7vRHuY -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Strange lute in French painting

2010-02-15 Thread Daniel Winheld
Maybe one more hour on simmer, and a few shakes from the cyanide jar Nancy spotted. Bon Apetit! :( Funny- I do have a dentist appointment in one hour! -Dan I don't think an oboe da caccia would be any easier on your teeth, but I suppose it would depend on how you cook it. -- To get on

[LUTE] Re: New frets

2010-02-14 Thread Daniel Winheld
Beneficial ..Absolutely! Often? -Ouch! I should have fewer instruments, or more free time. But the worse they get, the more you appreciate it when you finally do change those funky, ratty old frets. It really does get easier to change frets the more often you do them. When is an

[LUTE] Re: Strange lute in French painting

2010-02-14 Thread Daniel Winheld
Count 'em again, folks- I'm counting 7 courses on the main pegbox. Treble rider, and 12 more pegs. I've got three courses- 6 pegs on the extension, the bottom one looks like a darker wood replacement (ebony?) -So we have a 10 course. There is a Dutch picture of a young man playing one of these

[LUTE] Re: Emotion, introvert vs. extrovert playing

2010-02-09 Thread Daniel Winheld
Another possibility- performers, (like their listeners) are human; therefore fallible- they are not going to bat everything out of the park every time up to bat- and listeners are also human (therefore fallible) and will have different subjective responses. For that matter, the recording

[LUTE] Re: Flying with a lute - CaseXtreme Flight Case

2010-02-08 Thread Daniel Winheld
Bill, Yes - that is the company. Thanks so much re-posting it; but I did indeed see a different video, one specifically for electric guitars. This is far more relevant, and the drop distance more realistic than the four or five floor drop for the solid body electric so I'm still very

[LUTE] Re: Flying with a lute

2010-02-07 Thread Daniel Winheld
Thank you, Nancy. Excellent, relevant recent information. Important that it is post Christmas. Seems to be a don't ask, don't tell Least said, soonest mended etc. type of modus operandi. That's how it worked with my old, small vihuela in about 2005 going to the Amherst event from S.F. Bay area

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

2010-02-03 Thread Daniel Winheld
Speaking of silk (There is no evidence of such strings in Europe) Nevertheless, I have finally managed to put two of Alexander Rakov's silk strings on a lute- the 1-f and 2-d on my Baroque lute. (I had to wait for the current guts to degrade sufficiently- once the silk was in the house, the

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

2010-01-31 Thread Daniel Winheld
Hi Chris- This is getting interesting. (Thought we had put this one to bed already, but never mind). Some explaining- Last things first; My arch lute IS a little strange. The pictures from photobucket that I have linked below of course do not give the history or the specs, but at least we can

[LUTE] Apology to the Lute List

2010-01-31 Thread Daniel Winheld
Howdy folks. I just re-read my last e-rant to the lute list, answering Chris Wilke's last post. It was a silly overreaction to his interesting, but over-analyzed critique of my stringing, motives pertaining thereto, and why I would consider my archlute strange. I really apologize for my

[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: Switching between gut strings and synthetics?

2010-01-29 Thread Daniel Winheld
There was a fellow, name of Andres Segovia I believe, followed himself all over the world breaking gut treble strings regularly on a guitar. Finally wound up in the caring hands of Rose and Albert Augustine and a pile of raw nylon from Dupont. Didn't change his repertoire or instrument, and he

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

2010-01-29 Thread Daniel Winheld
Anthony- that's amazing- HIP concerns mattering as lately as the 1920's. I had a customer at the music store yesterday looking for HIP Beethoven; we didn't have anything on hand but at least the Busch Quartet had a sound that seemed closer, but I don't know the details of their equipment. I

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

2010-01-29 Thread Daniel Winheld
You should have warned me forty years ago. Caveat Emptor. RT -- 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?

2010-01-29 Thread Daniel Winheld
Dan, Are synthetic strings close to the sound of old guts? Dunno. Are modern guts any closer? Dunno. Let's call the whole thing off. Chris 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

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

2010-01-29 Thread Daniel Winheld
Agree completely. Never meant to sound like the HIP fuzz, and as I mentioned earlier, only two of my instruments are gutted. And as Chris Wilke observed, it's modern gut- how close the the real deal is at least somewhat speculative. Dan - Off to work now. It's a shame that this point has

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

2010-01-28 Thread Daniel Winheld
I think Joe is just going with his gut. (I know the sound better part is only an opinion, but the only-an-opinion thing hasn't seemed to slow down the gut advocates.) Respectfully, Joseph Mayes Like some of the rest of us, I've been following the double-track path of getting the best gut

[LUTE] Re: The refined oboe

2010-01-26 Thread Daniel Winheld
Yeah, he sure can- it was pleasure to hear live; thanks for posting this. Dan Years ago, I did some work with solo oboe which was fun but too loud. This guy can play like a cornetto: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBSYUfXn0PI -- To get on or off this list see list information at

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

2010-01-26 Thread Daniel Winheld
You really have the feel for this style. Very nice. And of course, the gut sounds better. A lot better. My Baroque lute and vihuela are in gut, and switching to the archlute (carbon, nylon, and copper wound basses- Satan's Strings!) the feel is positively slimy. The damn thing still sounds

[LUTE] Re: Help with LH fingering

2010-01-20 Thread Daniel Winheld
This is the fingering I sent to Leonard. Any thoughts, improvements? Is it clear? __ In the 4th measure, 2nd beat, prepare by fingering the c-a with the index finger, then the d-f with either index sliding up to d or

[LUTE] Re: Stickers and Decals

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
My old 8 course had two big, loud, bright yellow MYSTERY SPOT stickers on its case. The Mystery Spot is a small area near Santa Cruz, Ca. with gravitational/magnetic anomalies that turned into a tacky (but still scientifically interesting) tourist location. I have never taken anyone else's

[LUTE] Re: Thumb rest stroke

2010-01-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
The thing I find extremely puzzling in the 'awful lot of paintings' you mention is that, for late 16th and almost all 17th century examples, there is a nearly uniform depiction of a thumb-out technique, which is also described clearly in written sources. With one exception, nearly

[LUTE] Re: single second course on 10 course lutes

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Winheld
Taco- Martin of course has nailed it all down as authoritatively as anyone in the business could, combining as he does, the triple threat polymath combo of performer, builder, and scholar. One of the most beautiful 11 course lutes I ever saw a picture of had a doubled 2nd course. I forget

[LUTE] Re: Thumb rest stroke

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Winheld
A number of ergonomic subtleties here- very dependent on individual hand/finger/thumb configurations, what lute- shape, size relative to the player, holding position, stringing- for universal hard fast rules (beyond the obvious relating to thumb-index diminutions not damping the next course

[LUTE] Re: Thumb rest stroke

2010-01-18 Thread Daniel Winheld
It is not inappropriate to mention here that David practices (and performs) what he preaches. I had the good fortune to hear him in concert with the great Baroque oboe player Gonzalo X. Ruiz last night. If my aging vision serves, I saw him really whanging out all the low diapasons on his

[LUTE] Re: constructive critical commentary

2010-01-17 Thread Daniel Winheld
raise the cultural tone of his new venue by sticking a lute player in bottle-flinging range. I hope that is a metaphor. I thought that only happened in Blues Brothers movies. Oh no. Such places exist, fortunately it didn't reach that point in my case. Verbally delivered constructive criticism

[LUTE] Re: constructive critical commentary

2010-01-17 Thread Daniel Winheld
Many years ago, one of our famous colleagues gave a concert at Carnegie Recital Hall in New York, and one of our other learned colleagues* accosted him afterwards in the green room, launching immediately into a detailed critique of everything he did wrong, that could be

[LUTE] Re: Conradi Sonata

2010-01-16 Thread Daniel Winheld
know how it sounds. If anyone really wants it, email me off list. Dan I think Schäffer's CD is re-issued on CD (http://www.amazon.com/French-Baroque-Suites-Reusner-Conradi/dp/B029VU) A great recordung which I would like to recommend wholeheartedly Thomas Daniel Winheld schrieb

[LUTE] Re: constructive critical commentary

2010-01-16 Thread Daniel Winheld
Ah yes, deconstructive criticism, delivered with the kindest of intentions- If this sincere critic is being slanderously misunderstood; he should respond, set the record straight, and hugs all around. It's a small world, after all- and it's that tunnel-vision vehemence which seems to gather

[LUTE] Re: constructive critical Three more

2010-01-11 Thread Daniel Winheld
I have a very unconstructive commentary to David and Jean-Marie, you both are holding your lute on the wrong side ! This is actually a point of serious interest. Normally, watching someone of opposite hand/eye orientation do a familiar task is disorienting, (at least on the immediate

[LUTE] Re: Conradi Sonata

2010-01-11 Thread Daniel Winheld
Ed Martin has learned quite a bit about the multiple Conradis- and has recorded them as well. Perhaps he will weigh in here on this, unless it was already dealt with and may be in the archives. Dan I didn't know Conradi's music so thanks for sharing these beautiful pieces. I'd love to hear

[LUTE] Re: Conradi Sonata

2010-01-11 Thread Daniel Winheld
And of course the fine rendition by the late Michael Schaffer of the A major suite on his recording of French Baroque Lute Suites, which was available on CD, don't think it's still in print, but used copies may be available. Definitely a must have. Dan -- Rachel Winheld 820 Colusa Avenue

[LUTE] Re: tastini

2010-01-01 Thread Daniel Winheld
A prettty outlandish set of tastini at No, not at all. Very standard slantini. They were tried unsuccessfully on the Orpharion, fantini, I believe. Very good performance, too. Thanks! Dan -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: tastini

2010-01-01 Thread Daniel Winheld
Check out the others- I like the Purcell. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63VLgP-sezQfeature=related VIII. Leonardo Leo: Manca sollecita / Simone Kermes -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Weiss Baroque Lute Comparison

2009-12-31 Thread Daniel Winheld
Danny- Bravo! Very satisfying videos. I'm with Ed Martin on this; I much prefer the 11 course in gut, although they both sound very good. It reminds me of my own 13 course, which is mostly gut, while your 13 course shares some of the tonal qualities of my archlute, which is all synthetic

[LUTE] Re: Lutes in BWV 118?

2009-12-31 Thread Daniel Winheld
Even a liuto forte would not pass the lituus test. Happy New Year! -Dan It's lituus ad not Liuto. Andreas -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Silk String Sources

2009-12-26 Thread Daniel Winheld
This place might be worth checking out. Next time I'm in Chinatown for dim sum I will. Some years ago I went there and discovered that Erhu bows don't work for bass viols; I had forgotten about that place since then. http://www.clarionmusic.com/ Ron- That is Rakov, not Batov? I would be very

[LUTE] Re: Q on odd tunings/silk strings

2009-12-26 Thread Daniel Winheld
Thanks everyone. Hope to make contact with Rakov in regard to silk strings. Playing from the Siena Ms. on my last pair of gut trebles this morning- (doubled first on my Chambure copy vihuela) during the gentle haze of a happy holiday hangover is a most poignant moment on this

[LUTE] Guitar, but less forte/faulty, organ

2009-12-22 Thread Daniel Winheld
For guitarists, ex-guitarists, occasional guitarists, and lutenists who care- And especially for those of us for whom repertoire, timbre, temperaments vis-a-vis matters guitaristic are of concern, check out this guy. I have listened to a few of his CD's at the music store where I work, some

[LUTE] Re: Liuto forte

2009-12-20 Thread Daniel Winheld
I am a lutenist who does have a satisfactory guitar- a 7 string, steel-string instrument that at least gives a suggestion of Orpharion timbre and is flexible enough to be re-tuned to Bandora intervals. Wonderful change of tone color; only problem is that ET makes it sound out of tune to my

[LUTE] Re: another day at the office

2009-12-20 Thread Daniel Winheld
And considering the average lifespan, it's a miracle that as much culture and civilization as there was seems to have prevailed. We are wrestling with a heritage left to us by world of underage alcoholics. This certainly explains a lot. Dan Actually there is evidence of the opposite. Before

[LUTE] Re: another day at the office

2009-12-20 Thread Daniel Winheld
Time for another series of your lute seminars. Plenty more Damilano wine where that first bottle came from. They also do a Barolo. That is exactly right. Any recreation of music would have to have been semi intoxicated. d -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: another day at the office

2009-12-20 Thread Daniel Winheld
Ah, Roman- the happy optimist shows his face! The glass is at least half-full of cheap Italian red, the stuff that courses through my veins. Dan Average lifespan implies that anyone surviving infancy had a reasonable shot at dying of plague at the age of 99, like Titian. RT -- To get on

[LUTE] Re: Liuto forte

2009-12-20 Thread Daniel Winheld
You mean Chaconne a son mauvais gout. Ever played the Chaconne a Son Gout? -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Liuto forte

2009-12-19 Thread Daniel Winheld
Alright, I'll bite- What in God's name is Liuto Forte? (I must have been out of the office for this one) thanks, Dan -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: another day at the office

2009-12-17 Thread Daniel Winheld
Well- if you have to be stuck in an office job, you've got one of the better ones. Not as funny as The Office but much easier on the eyes and especially the ears. Jeez, what a dress code! -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Closure of VA Instrument Gallery

2009-12-16 Thread Daniel Winheld
Such a sad, and disgusting situation. It's pathetic where the so-called priorities seem to lie. This is cultural devolution of the worst kind, and will have actual consequences- I can relate personally; as a young guitar student many decades ago, visiting family friends in London on my way to

[LUTE] Re: luciano faria

2009-12-13 Thread Daniel Winheld
My archery mentor actually prefers moving targets. But that takes us OT because his archery is of the Hun Mongol tradition, not European Mediaeval/Renaissance. There is no bagpipe season here in California, anyway. Maybe in the UK?-Dan (Once attempted a duet with a real Highland Bagpiper

[LUTE] Re: luciano faria

2009-12-11 Thread Daniel Winheld
The connection between single malt scotch theorboes has me concerned. Those of us limited to regular lutes should double our malts at the octave. Especially at this time of year. He's currently building me a theorbo, which should be ready soon. Let me know if you do end up in this corner of

[LUTE] Re: luciano faria

2009-12-10 Thread Daniel Winheld
I can third that motion. Mel has rescued four of my instruments over the years to varying degrees- from a side crack in a vihuela (for bottle of Italian red wine) to a transfiguration of my 10 course lute into a small archlute. If David still has some of that special Oban on hand, that alone

[LUTE] Re: Lute teachers in San Francisco area

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Winheld
Also highly recommend David Tayler. Dan Hi Steven, I would recommend the person I studied with, who is in Berkeley and who is also on this list - Dan Winheld. Note that I studied with Dan as a total beginner. Not sure which level you are at, but Dan comes with a hearty recommendation.

[LUTE] Right hand technique

2009-12-07 Thread Daniel Winheld
Throwing this out here; - OT music, OT instrument; but relevant RH technique especially for those of us concerned with late Renaissance thumb-out (or sometimes up). Jody Fisher is a highly accomplished professional jazz guitarist I met some years ago- what I find fascinating here

[LUTE] Re: Renaissance Metaphors

2009-12-06 Thread Daniel Winheld
And just one more, also from the 60's Black Night is Falling; Charles Brown So how does this compare to Paint It Black by the Rolling Stones? I think it was ergot in the Renaissance. In the 60s... ; ) -- To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Renaissance Metaphors

2009-12-03 Thread Daniel Winheld
All that stuff is well and good. Actually, it's magnificent, important, and the best course of study if you are planning to expound this song to a college audience. For me personally, all I ever needed was the bare song itself. Between difficult times in my life- including a touch of

[LUTE] Re: Renaissance Metaphors

2009-12-03 Thread Daniel Winheld
Now we're getting somewhere. David O.- are the Funeral Teares (including that 2nd verse to In Darkness.. easily googleable, or Wikie'd? Or is there some especially good source where one can find them? A side note esp. regarding Dowland's settings- frequently the underlay is problematic after

[LUTE] Re: Renaissance Metaphors

2009-12-03 Thread Daniel Winheld
Thank you David. Tom's recommended website- also very helpful- is a hoot, and also worth checking out http://www.shipbrook.com/jeff/funeral/index.htm On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Winheld dwinh...@comcast.net wrote: Now we're getting somewhere. David O

[LUTE] Re: Renaissance Metaphors

2009-12-03 Thread Daniel Winheld
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while longing to make music that will melt the stars. -Flaubert Another possibilty is that both poems are based on an unknown antecedent which may or may not have the extra verses.

[LUTE] Re: Leos Janacek and lute

2009-11-28 Thread Daniel Winheld
Really nice. Beautifully sung played. Thanks for the link, Roman. 2 Moravian folk-songs set by Janacek with an archlute (played by Jindrich Macek). Just gorgeous- http://www.loutna.cz/cz/sluzby-koncerty-moravska-lidova-poezie.aspx Enjoy! RT -- To get on or off this list see list

[LUTE] Re: Arabian past

2009-11-21 Thread Daniel Winheld
Any explanations? Or am I so ignorant that I am not worth a serious answer? Franz, you are perfectly worthy- but this worthless correspondent was at work today and did not get home until after 9:00 PM, PST. As to the question, firstly we have to know what Arab music was like at the time the

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