[LUTE] Re: TAB lute music archives

2020-08-23 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi Wayne that's good to hear! - Luke On 23-Aug-2020 13:16, Wayne wrote: Hi Luke - The TAB lute music archives at https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/tab-serv/tab-serv.cgi will also be closing down, though possibly a little later than the mail list. I am still negotiating with the

[LUTE] Re: The lute list is retiring soon

2020-08-23 Thread Luke Emmet
Thanks Wayne for all your energies and efforts in running these sites. It is really appreciated! On a personal note, I'd like to express a particular appreciation for the TAB software which sits within, and dovetails to my own open source lute tabulature software LuteScribe. TAB source is in

[LUTE] Re: String wear at nut on G lute

2020-08-18 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi Ed It looks like the groove for the string isn't wide enough, and has a sharp top edge which is cutting into the string. Ideally the nut grooves should be wider than the string diameter, so it touches only at the bottom and the grooves only guide the string and do not offer

[LUTE] Re: Lute strap

2020-05-22 Thread Luke Emmet
}or#{Withluteonstrap}orderby:date - Luke On 22-May-2020 17:41, Luke Emmet wrote: Here is the same list, ordered by date. The first ones shown seems to be around 1615 - Luke On 22-May-2020 17:39, Luke Emmet wrote: Hi Tristan and all You can find over 100 items in the The Lute Society's lute

[LUTE] Re: Lute strap

2020-05-22 Thread Luke Emmet
Here is the same list, ordered by date. The first ones shown seems to be around 1615 - Luke On 22-May-2020 17:39, Luke Emmet wrote: Hi Tristan and all You can find over 100 items in the The Lute Society's lute iconography database that show a strap or a strap in use: https://lute

[LUTE] Re: Lute strap

2020-05-22 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi Tristan and all You can find over 100 items in the The Lute Society's lute iconography database that show a strap or a strap in use:

[LUTE] Re: Lute Tablature using Finale

2020-03-31 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi Craig Another option for lute tabulature fonts are those created by Steve Horn, primarily for users of Sibelius for typesetting tabulature, but they can be used in other contexts as well, so they might meet your needs:

[LUTE] Re: modern lute editions

2019-12-24 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi All I have a beautiful, yet very scratchy hair shirt that I wear whilst playing the lute. I believe it helps me really get into the mindset of our forebears who left us our wonderful music. Good will to all, and a good glass of Christmas wine for those that partake. Best Wishes - Luke

[LUTE] LuteScribe 1.2 released

2019-10-19 Thread Luke Emmet
Dear Lute list I'm pleased to announce that LuteScribe 1.2 is released. LuteScribe is an free/open source Windows application for editing and viewing lute tabulature, compatible with a number of existing formats, including TAB, FT3, JTZ/JTXML. This release bundles up a number of usability

[LUTE] Lute Iconography Database - full release

2019-08-17 Thread Luke Emmet
Dear lute list I'm pleased to announce that the Lute Iconography Database is now fully released. A previous version had been circulated last year, but it seemed that some of the attributes had not migrated correctly. As you may know the database has been designed and populated by David Van

[LUTE] Re: Julian Bream on Lute

2019-06-20 Thread Luke Emmet
never played baroque lute. That woulda been amazing. Susan Original message From: Luke Emmet Date: 6/19/19 1:34 PM (GMT-07:00) To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu Subject: [LUTE] Re: Julian Bream on Lute Julian Bream was an inspiration to so many people to take

[LUTE] Re: Julian Bream on Lute

2019-06-19 Thread Luke Emmet
Julian Bream was an inspiration to so many people to take up the lute or to fall in love with it. I count myself among them. How much visibility would our instrument have had without his performances and recordings back in the day? Yes his technique is obviously strongly guitar influenced,

[LUTE] Re: Question on strumming madrigals.

2019-04-25 Thread Luke Emmet
Perhaps slightly earlier than you had in mind, but not so long ago at the UK Lute Society we had a presentation and recital by Jose Luis Pastor on the use of the plectrum in Medieval Lute playing. His accompanying CD called "The Evidence" provides a very compelling performance and

[LUTE] Re: TAB for windows 64 bit

2019-04-20 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi everyone Just to let you know, I have included this latest version of tab (version 4.3.94) from Wayne in the latest build of LuteScribe which is now itself at version 1.1.5. https://www.orlando-lutes.com/pages/lutescribe Best Wishes - Luke On 09-Apr-2019 11:48, Wayne wrote: Hi lute

[LUTE] Re: LuteScribe

2019-04-01 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi Leonard LuteScribe is a Windows application, but it has been confirmed to work with Wine on Linux, so the process with a Mac should be very similar. The sequence of steps for getting it to run on Linux are as follows: 1. Install Winetricks https://wiki.winehq.org/Winetricks 2. Install

[LUTE] LuteScribe 1.1 released

2019-03-19 Thread Luke Emmet
Forgot to CC the list in my reply... -- Forwarded message - From: Luke Emmet <[1]luke.em...@orlando-lutes.com> Date: Tue, 19 Mar 2019 at 08:47 Subject: Re: [LUTE] LuteScribe 1.1 released To: stephen arndt <[2]stephenwar...@verizon.net> Hi St

[LUTE] LuteScribe 1.1 released

2019-03-18 Thread Luke Emmet
-lutes.com/pages/lutescribe More fixes and improvements are planned over the coming months. Best Wishes - Luke Emmet To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Tip - Lute Scribe character / font question

2019-03-05 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi Jurgen LuteScribe, and the underlying TAB text format that it builds on are not exactly WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get), but rather WYSIWYM - what you see is what you meant. In essence they provide a series of formatting commands to the underlying TAB program which typesets the

[LUTE] LuteScribe 1.0 released

2019-01-03 Thread Luke Emmet
improve the compatibility with existing file formats. Best Wishes - Luke Emmet == Main changes == Main changes apart from general bug fixes and user interface improvements include: - Now compatible with a wider range of common tabulature formats

[LUTE] Announcement: Lute Iconography Database

2018-05-16 Thread Luke Emmet
Dear lute list I'm pleased to announce the new Lute Iconography Database is now online. The Lute Iconography Database (LuteIDB) is an online resource for lute makers, scholars, players and others interested in the iconography of the lute. It contains around 2000 iconographic entries depicting

[LUTE] Re: Betrachte meine Seel

2018-03-19 Thread Luke Emmet
Actually it is not just D minor lute - there is a setting for Old/Renaissance lute too on the same page. - Luke On 19-Mar-2018 22:06, Luke Emmet wrote: Dear lute list You may all be interested to know that we have recently uploaded a free download setting of this by Wilfred Foxe for D

[LUTE] Re: Betrachte meine Seel

2018-03-19 Thread Luke Emmet
Dear lute list You may all be interested to know that we have recently uploaded a free download setting of this by Wilfred Foxe for D minor lute to The Lute Society's website here: http://www.lutesociety.org/pages/betrachte-meine-seel Best Wishes - Luke On 19-Mar-2018 14:02, Eloy Cruz

[LUTE] Re: Interesting exhibition featuring lute opens today in Yale

2018-02-14 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi David Thanks for sharing that - it looks really intriguing - I hope to see the exhibition when comes back to the UK over the summer. As you have probably already seen, the Yale site includes the short intro film which is narrated by Stephen Fry which well worth the watch

[LUTE] LuteScribe beta 0.2.1 released

2017-11-04 Thread Luke Emmet
Dear Lute list I'm pleased to announce that LuteScribe beta 0.2.1 is now released. LuteScribe is a free, community based software for editing and viewing lute tabulature files. The original announcement is here: https://www.mail-archive.com/lute@cs.dartmouth.edu/msg49368.html This updated

[LUTE] Re: LuteScribe - a new community-based free software tool for reading and editing tabulature

2017-10-05 Thread Luke Emmet
Hi Göran Thanks for your interest - I've emailed you the details. LuteScribe uses the same commands as TAB, but it does provide some visual hinting. For example "x" means "the previous flag", and so in the LuteScribe GUI, these "x" flags are visually de-emphasised, so you can focus on the

[LUTE] LuteScribe - a new community-based free software tool for reading and editing tabulature

2017-10-05 Thread Luke Emmet
://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByhfXkzbvI8VNEFEZFZlb2xZN3c Best Wishes - Luke Emmet LuteScribe – a new community-based free software for reading and editing tabulature Lute tabulature files are a fundamental way for the lute community to exchange music in our modern

[LUTE-BUILDER] Re: Obtaining good quality clear tape

2015-06-03 Thread Luke Emmet
shelf life is fine for that quantity. Certainly 3 or 4 years for me. Best wishes, David At 18:40 +0100 3/6/15, Luke Emmet wrote: Dear all Can anyone recommend a good source of clear tape for various luthier tasks around the workshop? It needs to have a reasonable stickiness