In a message dated 11/2/2006 3:27:29 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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from Kenneth Be, a conservator at the Cleveland Museum
of Fine Arts. They actually use spit to clean the grime
of centuries from paintings by the old masters. So he
If you eat some licorice
In a message dated 10/27/2006 6:03:11 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, anthony.hi
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Jacob Heringman who plays with gut on recordings told me that he
prefered 64 or 67 or 71 lengths for better range of tone. He said that,
On the Pickeringe, some of the pieces are on a
I would recommend staying away from a descant lute as a first instrument.
This lute is best when played in an ensemble with other lutes of varying sizes
and pitches. My opinion: go for the 6 course Duiffopruchar model! You
will be able to play most of the renaissance lute repertoire on
If the doors of the tower slammed shut in 1536, then Casteliono book of
tablatures published in Milan would be appropriate.
Kenneth
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Vasari also mentions Sebastiano del Piombo as an artist who should have
devoted more time to his art and less to the lute.
Thomas Gainsborough sought out lessons on the 13c lute from Rudolphe
Straube.
Kenneth
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In a message dated 8/24/2006 5:09:50 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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this time the x-ray lady saw the big nail inside the lute. :-)))
This same thing happened to me last year at an airport. The security
officials were
In a message dated 8/23/2006 8:27:02 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The temperature and pressure problems are greatly exaggerated in the
popular imagination.
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Howard:
I recall you having the best travel system for transporting
In a message dated 8/19/2006 10:52:42 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Did somebody ever try to date the music by Dowland, or at least make an
attempt at an order of composition?
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Paul O'Dette made a rough attempt to make an approximate order.
In a message dated 8/17/2006 4:38:07 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
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Dear all,
as an amateur lute player studying in Italy I tend to spend most of my time
playing Italian lute music from the XVI century. Well, I guess this happens
to everybody, anyway... ;-)
I own a
The music of Laurencini di Roma is another high point of 7 - 8 course
Italian repertoire. Much of his music is in Besarde's Thesaurus Harmonicus,
but
there is a good modern edition of his music published by the Lute Society:
Thirty Pieces for the Lute by Laurencini
In a message dated 8/5/2006 9:33:08 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a gig coming, on
vihuela, and the weather here is so humid, decided to try nylgut on that
instrument, so I put those strings on last night. It sounds terrible in
nylgut, so I will re-apply
In addition to loving the lute, I am a great fan and admirer of origami and
want to share this with the list:
_http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/92027309/_
(http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/92027309/)
Kenneth Be
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http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/92027309/
(http://flickr.com/photos/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/92027309/)
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The most important difference for the musician is more in timbre. The
vihuela has a more throaty direct, slightly shallower sound and the lute
is a
rounder, more enveloping sound. Also, if you tune most of the courses in
unisons on the vihuela, as opposed to the lute, it makes a different
To all:
I had sent to a few members of this list a scanned image of a very
interesting 17th C. print etching by the artist Wenceslaus Hollar, a Bohemian
artist
who worked in London, of a young lutenist sitting very upright holding a
double headed lute which is attached by either a single
I recall from a conversation with Hogwood many years ago that he told me
that when Munrow was working with the producers of The Six Wives of Henry
VIII
and told to come up with appropriate soundtrack music, he of course turned to
the consort books of pieces attributed to Henry VIII himself,
In a message dated 4/7/2006 9:38:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
would anyone care to wax lyrical over the sound of a
lute?
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on Francesco da Milano:
they remained deprived of all senses save that of hearing, as if the spirit,
having
In a message dated 4/7/2006 9:38:09 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
in this week's economist (apr 1-7) there's an article
on a pipa player - wu man, by name - in which the
sound of her instrument is likened to pearls falling
onto a jade plate.
would anyone care to
In a message dated 4/3/2006 4:43:36 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does somebody know what happened to Martin Shepherd's homepage
http://www.luteshop.co.uk ?
I just called Martin on the phone yesterday to tell him that both his
In a message dated 3/19/2006 10:07:48 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
apart from the article by joseph baldassare, mentioned
earlier, is there any early european documentation
relating to how the lute was played prior to the
advent of thumb over plucking and
In a message dated 3/12/2006 6:42:34 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've often heard that those glued-on high frets are a modern invention.
Is that still the prevailing theory?
Hello Sean:
Yes, I heard a lecture at Lute Society in Feb2002 by Tony Bailes and he
In a message dated 3/18/2006 12:31:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
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those very high passages in Spinacino would
suddenly go into oud mode?
disaster! would sound like the instrument had
suddenly lost its voice. even
In a message dated 3/18/2006 2:35:52 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
aren't there chord shapes up
there in early books that request L's and K's? For these I wonder if
there were bass or long tenor lutes that had, say, 10 frets on the
neck. The longer string length
In a message dated 3/3/2006 2:33:58 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
what would you suggest as a book
(a reference, more than one if you like, but in English) about the
history of the lute literature?
-
For sure, I would recommend
In a message dated 2/20/2006 11:15:03 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been away all weekend and have just caught up on the six course
discussion. Since we're on this topic I'd like to ask if anyone
prefers a six course with a wider neck. I have one of Dan
For me, it is so much in the quality of the way the six course lute
responds, with a simpler bar pattern in the soundboard, a less complicated
sound
with more emphasis on the fundamental, less in the higher frequencies, and a
good volume balance between all the courses, that seem on
Yes .iPO'D!
Kenneth
n a message dated 1/31/2006 5:51:13 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gives a whole new meaning to the word iPOD.
David
For fans of both O'Dette and iTunes, I notice that they have just added 16
POD albums (Harmonia Mundi) to the
I stayed through to the end of the credits and saw that the brief track of
a Dalza recercar was from the Early Venetian Naxos CD of Chris Wilson.
Kenneth Be
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As for me...
lutes:
5 course plectrum (Brown)
6 course (Tomlinson)
6 course (Nurse)
6 course alto (Greenhood)
7 course (Bowers)
10 course (Brown)
11 course (Tomlinson)
14 course archlute (from kit)
others:
4 course gitarra latina
4 course ren. guitar
5 course bar. guitar
7 course vihuela
I have played a six course lute double-fretted, single strand of fret going
around the neck twice, with the fretting carefully selected and tied by the
lute's maker Ray Nurse, for many years. The gut frets, with all gut strings on
the lute, has lasted so well that I have only had to have the
In a message dated 5/27/2005 7:10:12 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I don't know whether any 16th century lute music involves tuning the 6th
course down a tone. Perhaps someone on the list can tell us.
Plenty of examples, the earliest being several piece in the Capirola
Let me tell about some interesting lute outreach during which I definitely
could NOT keep my gut strings in tune. Several months ago I was crossing over
the Atlantic in a B747 cargo jet and couldn't resist giving my first-ever lute
outreach performance over the Mid-Atlantic Ridge to my fellow
Steven:
Definitely go to the musical instrument museum (check the hours very carefully
first) where they seemed to have no problem with me taking pictures with my
digital camera two years ago. Plenty of early plucked instruments there,
including the famous Barberini Harp which also depicted
I know that Mike Peterson and also Ronn McFarlane regularly play lute in
airport departure lounges while waiting for their flights. I myself once took
out my lute and played during a long and unexpected flight delay in Toronto. I
was playing through a book of English popular tunes and
Michael et al:
Roman's website has an extensive section on the history of the Ukrainian
torban and examples in museums today. He mentioned that many more recently
discovered examples will soon be posted to the site as well.
Kenneth
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Per all the discussion about playing from memory, I want to mention and
highly recommend to anyone in New York City to try to get to the following
concert
of Matthew Wadsworth, who is both blind and plays programs and vast amounts of
repertoire from memory. There is a possibility, too, that
Dear folks:
I've had a delightful weekend with an out of town visitor here to Cleveland,
yes the very Roman Turovsky has been here to present some music to the
Ukrainian cultural community played on the 13 course. Yesterday I assisted a
little
in playing some examples of 6 course and also 11
Even before you set a strap button into your lute (it is strong enough because
there is a wooden reinforcement at that end where all the ribs come together,
plus the capping strip on the outside) you might consider any number of
material or cushions to help hold your lute in place and grip it:
Sean:
About the lutes depicted in
http://www.xs4all.nl/~amarin/Page1-Pages/Image198.html
I know for a fact that Ed Greenhood has been making a lute of almost this
exact same body design. It occurs also in a painting by Bartolomeo Veneto (on
cover of Diana Poulton's Collected Works of
Thomas:
This semester Case Western Reserve University here in Cleveland is performing
all known music connected with Lord Hayes 1607 masque, directed by David
Douglass. I'm playing cittern in the broken consort, although only two works
exist originally as broken consort settings (Richard
In a message dated 2/27/2005 12:50:23 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is a chapel inside the Palace of Queluz, 5 km from Lisboa, with a sort
of upper chamber with a beautiful baroque hole with a golden grid, as far as
I remember . Musicians used to play upstairs and the
In a message dated 2/18/2005 2:03:17 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just to set the record straight, my tab format was designed to
be e-mailable. This was in the days when there was no internet
(just a limited arpanet) and mail was sent from computer to
computer via
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- Kenneth
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In a message dated 1/1/2005 10:46:26 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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how about lanolin, olive-oil or even (gak!) lard?
I have heard that Hopkinson Smith uses lanolin oil on overspun bass strings
to get a more gut-like sound.
Kenneth Be
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To Rob:
The Mary Burwell Lute Tutor recommends soaking the gut strings in sweet
almond oil. I have used almond oil myself and noticed that it also makes them
more
stable against damp humid conditions.
Kenneth Be
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Has anyone compiled a complete, up-to-date listing of all known websites with
lute tablature music online for download? This would be very useful.
Recently, as the Biber query responses have shown, there have been several
excellent
sites announced.
I am grateful to all those who have put
Many thanks to all who responded to my question.
Since the time I posted my query about early quotes on Bakfark I made a trip to Poland
(Warsaw and Krakow) this past weekend and even performed a lute recital at the Muzeum
Narodowe w Warszawa and enjoyed including Bakfark in the program. I left
There is a quote that goes something like:
nobody should play the lute after Bakfark
Can someone tell me 1) the source of this quote 2) the interpretation: does it mean
that that Bakfark had no equal and that his skill couldn't be matched by anyone else?
or does it mean that no one could
To all:
Please check out Ronn McFarlane's new website!
www.ronnmcfarlane.com
There are some nice images and quotations, a complete list of his recordings, his
concert appearances schedule, a bit about his teaching and his personal views on
playing the lute. All of his new articles on The
Please note the following note made about registration on the LuteFest 2004=20
webpage (@ www.lutesocietyofamerica.org).
If you wish, you may visit our secure registration site ...until 23 June=20
only).
Late registrations will still be accepted on site at CWRU in Cleveland. =A0C=
ome=20
to Wade
Dear Art and everyone else:
FYI, Jacob is bringing at least 50 copies for sale to the Lute Festival!
Kenneth
Ooops! I typed L by accident! Oh well, at least I'm back ON topic
Kenneth Be
In a message dated 5/31/04 7:20:22 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There is an old Corsican saying: Keep you mouth shut, and Flies won't nest
there.
And the saying You have two ears and one mouth, therefore you should listen
twice as much as you speak can also translate
In a message dated 5/27/04 10:37:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With the imminent convergence of lutes on Cleveland, I was wondering
what the current practices were for flying with lutes--especially if
anyone has been on Continental Airlines.
With Cleveland being
Please, if anyone can help translate, I need this song text in English:
Cessez amants de servier Ang=E9lique,
Amarillis se peut dire l'unique,
A qui la Cour doit offrir des voeux.
Tous les plus grands appas d'Aminthe et de Silvie,=20
Ne valent pas un des cheveux
De celle qui tient ma vie.
Will the individual (from Germany) who asked me about Yale's Bray Lutebook
please reach me again at the following address?: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I seem to have lost your address (and name!) from your previous
correspondence with me.
Thanks,
Kenneth Be
Cleveland, Ohio
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I receive postings of discount fares from Continental Airlines (Cleveland is one of
the hub airports for Continental) and just received a notice that the following cities
have one way summer fares of $68 to Cleveland, perhaps relevant to some LuteFest
attendees. You would need to check on
In a message dated 5/3/2004 5:53:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The only other thing that helps is to jam the thing
against a cigarette packet in my trouser pocket and
I'm planning to give up soon.
according to the spam i get, there are pills that will help
you
If anyone in the southern half of Ohio is interested in hearing lute duets of
Renaissance Italy, Elizabethan England, 17th C. France and Germany, plus a
suite by Baron, a solo suite by Weiss and contemporary compositions by Ronn
McFarlane, we have three more concerts to do today and tomorrow on
Can anybody give an explanation why the the top two courses are single on the
baroque lute? Certainly converting renaissance lutes into baroque
configurations by adding an additional top course (and additional diapason courses)
seems logical enough, but I'm wondering why keeping the top two
There is now a link posting by Dan Larson for his LSA LuteFest class Accelerated Lute
Making with an outline of the daily topics covered:
http://www.daniellarson.com/class.htm
- Kenneth Be
www.lutesocietyofamerica.org
to register
Cleveland is the place to be this month if you like to hear the lute - in=20
case you happen to be passing through or maybe know someone who lives here.=20=
=20
Starting on April18th, there will be no less than fifteen performances invol=
ving=20
lute. Ronn and I are playing a number of recitals,
I just want to remind all those who are interested in attending the LuteFest
and have not signed up yet:
The deadline is April 30th to register and receive the $25 early bird
discount on the tuition fee.
Two weeks left!
Thanks,
Kenneth Be
Director, LSA Lute Festival 2004
Cleveland, Ohio
In a message dated 4/12/2004 11:34:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time, JEdwardsMusic writes:
I agree, gut is the best sound overall; but depending on who made the
instrument and who is playing it, nylgut can sound quite
good.
This is so true. Paul O'Dette can string a lute with a ball of yarn, as
In a message dated 4/10/04 4:33:39 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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Would there be an authority there who really has the know-how tying double
frets? I mean, who's done it before and ends up w/ minimum buzzing. It is a
presentation I certainly wouldn't want to miss.
To
In a message dated 4/11/04 4:04:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
i had always assumed that double frets were a no-no. what's the
advantage of having them?
Bill:
On the contrary, and as Sean has pointed out, there are many examples in art
iconography already starting
In a message dated 4/11/04 9:57:01 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have found gut to be more stable than synthetic strings. I think
the quality processing has improved, but I also think we are learning how
to use it, and how to tune it keep it in tune.
True! In
If you're considering coming to the Lute Festival, I have scheduled in a special
pre-workshop concert for those who arrive a day earlier:
- Kenneth
NEWLY ADDED TO THE LSA LUTE FESTIVAL 2004:A SPECIAL PRE-FESTIVAL CONCERT!!!
June 26, 2004 7:30PMHoly Rosary Church, on Mayfield Rd in Cleveland's
For anyone planning to arrive early in Clevland, I have just scheduled in a
pre-festival concert event for June 26th evening. The church venue is surrounded by
any number of fine Italian restaurants for after the concert. Below is the special
invitation from the co-director of the new
Yet another feature has been added to the LSA Lute Festival in Cleveland
(June 27 - July 2, 2004):
The New York Historical Dance Company, consisting of Dorothy Olsson (New
York) and Kaspar Mainz (from the Leipzig vicinity) will join in the Lute Festival
to perform early dance:
A special
Without naming any particular names, it should be noted that a number of well-known
lute players have turned 50 this year.
Kenneth
Better to pre-register for the Lute Fest sooner than later! Private lessons (two
half-hour lessons included in the tuition) teachers are chosen and assigned first
come/first serve based on the order in which pre-registrations are received.
For online registration: www.lutesocietyofamerica.org
In a message dated 2/27/04 6:41:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
By the way Jessie has published a fascinating book _Composers at Work: The
Craft of Musical Composition, 1450-1600_ (OUP, 1997). It includes some
remarks about how the lute was sometimes used as a means for
As a professional conservator of paintings(and also an enthusiastic follower of the
lute!) I suppose I should address this thread topic. Paintings, of course, are much
more to the beholder than mere physical objects. From past ages, even from our own
age, they carry a artistic vision: an
In a message dated 2/27/04 11:55:09 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Note that the Lute Society of America seminar (27 June - 3 July) will=20
overlap with the second week of BPI and is less than an hour away at Case=20
Western Reserve University in Cleveland. An
In a message dated 2/17/2004 11:20:42 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
ah, I've had a complicated career. I'm not only a physicist, but I also
used to teach petrology. The PhD is actually in Geophysics and I did much of
my research work in what is basically mineralogy
Hi Martin:
I just wandered to my mailbox here for the first time in a while and found your
message. You've probably seen me in action alot with my little Pentax Optio330 (about
2 yrs old now) with 3.34 megapixel capacity, using Flashcard media for storage (lots
of my photos are on the LSA
In a message dated 1/13/04 4:14:51 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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Does anyone have experience with the Nicolas Vallet's Psalms =
published in Regia Pietas?
I've got the facsimile edition, but as I've never had any experience =
with this particular repertoire, I was
In a message dated 1/7/04 10:09:06 AM Eastern Standard Time,=20
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Certainly the rosette looks rather odd - but this may be=A0 something to d=
o
with the state of the painting.=A0 I seem to recall that many of his paint=
ings
survive in a poor state or have been badly
My apologies to the list for sending out yet another message just now full of
=20s
(I can't seem to figure out how this AOL mail works correctly with
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I saw the film in early December where I work at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Our film program director somehow managed to negotiate a screening prior to
its public release.
Simply stated, the movie is visually and cinematographically one of the most
stunning I have ever seen. The subtle,
I attended James Tyler's class on the early guitar at the Lute Society of America
summer seminar of 1993 in Rochester, New York, in which he made a point of telling us
that the little chitarrino (renaissance four course guitar) was spread to many corners
of the world through Jesuit missionaries
In a message dated 12/31/03 6:41 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, if you are ever in Yemen, and invited to a
wedding, make sure you go because you may hear some
very interesting music being played on the 'oud.
Thanks for the tip, Titan. I will have to remember this next time I'm in
Yemen and
In a message dated 12/25/03 7:52:53 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Our job is to make music that moves the audience, because we
are musicians, not museum curators.
Yours,
Jim
Hey, Jim!
Some of us try to be both museum curators AND musicians!
Best wishes this
In a message dated 12/16/03 3:18:42 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I heard this has acoustical reasons, together with a thicker
soundboard around the hole the inlay influences the sound. At
least I think this is what I read about Torres' guitars.
Hi Stephan:
Actually,
In a message dated 12/14/03 9:18:56 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have quicktime .avi files of RF and Pat O'Brien demonstrating thumb
under RH technique
As was posted recently, there are also some silent video files showing
showing videos of several professional lute
Actually, James, in all seriousness I've noticed that it is much easier to
tune and keep the tuning stable in lutes with bent back pegboxes than lutes with
extended pegboxes and certainly more than baroque and renaissance guitars and
vihuelas.
Kenneth
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In a message dated 12/9/03 8:56:33 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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How
does the carved rosette affect the tone?
Several lute makers have mentioned to me that it does not affect the tone.
Certainly, I have not noticed the difference between baroque guitars with and
In a message dated 12/9/03 11:26:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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I love it! Left handed no less. The picture is not reversed because
the music is the right way. I can just imagine the artist telling the
model how to place his fingers. It may take me a while to
Earlier this week I spent three days for work in Germany. My brand new lute=
=20
and I had some enjoyable meetings with some fellow lute player colleagues fr=
om=20
this lute forum.=A0 First, on Saturday night I had a delightful dinner (thi=
rd=20
time this year!) with Thomas Schall who is
[I apologize for the font codes in my previous message posting!=A0 Here it i=
s=20
again, cleaned up]:
Earlier this week I spent three days for work in Germany. My brand new lute
and I had some enjoyable meetings with some fellow lute player colleagues=20
from
this lute forum First, on
For those interested in knowing about mammoth ivory:
It is typically brownish in color, in cross section it has a chevron grain
pattern in contrast to present elephant ivory which has engine turning
patterns (really, better described by the eye from what you see than this
terminology/note:
In a message dated 11/17/03 10:08:48 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
You can see an animation of Jacob Heringman's right hand playing with
'thumb
under' technique on the home page of his website www.heringman.com.
You can also find video clips (no sound!) showing
In a message dated 10/24/03 7:56:03 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As Ken Be has pointed out a number of times, the solvent of choice among
museum conservators (at least for a first try) is saliva.
Yes, this is actually true. As a paintings conservator, I can testify
In a message dated 10/18/03 5:26:44 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
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is there any chance that you might send me the pic or make it available
on the web? I have just looked at the reproductions of the ambassadors
picture within my reach and was pretty convinced that the
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