[LUTE] Re: De Visee

2019-05-08 Thread Toby Carr
I play with with nails, and a video of me playing can be found at the link below, with more to follow on YouTube soon. I hope this goes some way to satisfying your curiosity, and criticism (preferably constructive!) is welcome. [1]https://youtu.be/msh4dbjLl0k Toby On Wed, 8

[LUTE] Re: New music

2017-12-22 Thread Toby Carr
I've performed it (Old Bones by Nico Muhly) and enjoyed doing so, while it may not be to everyone's taste I think it's a good example of serious composers writing thoughtfully for the instrument. Toby On 22 Dec 2017 19:05, "Peter Martin" <[1]peter.l...@gmail.com> w

[LUTE] Re: New music

2017-12-21 Thread Toby Carr
Matthew Wadsworth's latest CD included a new piece for theorbo by Stephen Goss that I think is worth mentioning, and I believe they have plans to continue that collaboration On 21 Dec 2017 23:16, "David van Ooijen" <[1]davidvanooi...@gmail.com> wrote: Like most (pro) lute

[LUTE] Re: Info about a couple of songs

2017-03-23 Thread Toby Carr
The first song is called 'when i raise my goblet deep' possibly by Henry Lawes, though I'm not sure. I have a copy at home so can send to you tomorrow if you'd like. Toby On 23 Mar 2017 04:42, "howard posner" <[1]howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: Can someon

[LUTE] Re: Saturday quotes - Dowland's poem

2012-12-18 Thread Toby
On 12/15/2012 10:22 AM, Dan Winheld wrote: If you mean at the same time; -Shaving with a straight razor in one hand and eating with chopsticks in the other. But Thomas Campion- arguably at his less profound level than Dowland- was better at being both poet composer of songs. Never the

[LUTE] Re: On shimming frets.

2012-10-01 Thread Toby
Wooden frets fall off, Gut frets also wearing out- Seasons of the lute. Often, mundane thoughts, Tend to appear meaningful When read in Haiku To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: On shimming frets.

2012-10-01 Thread Toby
On 10/01/2012 09:17 AM, howard posner wrote: On Oct 1, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Tobyt...@tobiah.org wrote: Often, mundane thoughts, Tend to appear meaningful When read in Haiku Mundane though they be, Thoughts, when expressed in haiku Are concise, at least Then it would be best That all

[LUTE] Re: On shimming frets.

2012-10-01 Thread Toby
Then it would be best That all communication Be done in Haiku Better for reader But for the one who's writing It would take too long A side benefit Would be that unworthy thoughts Would remain suppressed To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Re: Best Body Frets?

2012-09-27 Thread Toby
On 09/26/2012 04:48 PM, Dan Winheld wrote: ..and I blew the syllable count on the last line. Hot seppuku for breakfast tomorrow. Autumn's in the air. On 9/26/2012 4:22 PM, Sean Smith wrote: Frets fall, leaves fly. On Sep 26, 2012, at 4:12 PM, Dan Winheld wrote: Warm case holds

[LUTE] Re: instrumental air de cours

2012-08-31 Thread Toby
Beautiful sound. Is that mic an NT1-A? On 08/30/2012 02:49 PM, Rockford Mjos wrote: Lovely, David! Thank you, also, for sharing your arrangement. I recently came across the CD Tabarinades by Les Boreades, which has two airs de cour played as solos by Sylvain Bergeron: Si jamais mon ame, and

[LUTE] Re: Lute and guitar

2012-08-29 Thread Toby
. Occasionally I will rebuild a broken nail by cutting a glossy cardboard form to fit under the nail, and brushing the acrylic over that. It's best not to coat the entire nail, as this seems to have a lasting softening effect on the nail. Toby To get on or off this list see list information at http

[LUTE] Re: My First Lute

2012-08-01 Thread Toby
On 07/31/2012 03:25 PM, A.J. Padilla MD wrote: As I recall, over the years there have been several threads about the Pakistani lutes, all pretty much negative, essentially to the effect that you need all new strings, have to change the action by altering the fingerboard and/or bridge and/or nut,

[LUTE] Re: New post

2012-06-27 Thread Toby
I think the death knell for cassettes was when the big auto-makers stopped putting cassette players in vehicles. I have a '99 ford that was built with a cassette player. CD's became available in '82. I think that CD's were already the death of cassette tape, but cassettes actually enjoyed

[LUTE] Re: Android app for recording lute

2012-04-30 Thread Toby
On 04/30/2012 01:21 PM, Adam Olsen wrote: Is there a good app for recording yourself on Android? I tried a few apps, but the sound came out very distorted and blown out. I know the phone's microphone is better than that, because if I use the video camera app it sounds fine. I don't know

[LUTE] Re: Miking III - outside

2012-04-16 Thread Toby
With summer theatre production fast approaching, Any recommendations for amplification of a ren lute for outside (shakespeare in the park) performance? Sitting in front of a mic? (what kind - diaphragm/condenser?) Attached transducer? What kind? Does anyone stroll while amplified? Anyone

[LUTE] Re: OT Alert- Music Miking (Micing?)

2012-04-06 Thread Toby
(And, yes. I say mics, so why not micing?). dictionary.com has 'miking', but not 'micing'. The former's root is the word 'mike'. 'micing' looks like 'icing' with an 'm' in front anyway :) To get on or off this list see list information at

[LUTE] Question for list admin

2012-04-05 Thread Toby
Other mailing lists that I'm on are set up so that hitting reply sends a message to the list, not the poster of the message that I'm replying to. I find myself replying, then realizing (sometimes) that the message will not go to the list, so I send another one. I also get many personal replies

[LUTE] Re: Question for list admin

2012-04-05 Thread Toby
Actually, this came back to me correctly. It must be that people are CC'ing the list instead of posting to it and CC'ing individuals. Never mind. On 04/05/2012 11:26 AM, Toby wrote: Other mailing lists that I'm on are set up so that hitting reply sends a message to the list, not the poster

[LUTE] Re: Recorder and Lute

2012-04-04 Thread Toby
How are the timelines of these instruments related, and what pieces include both instruments? Are you asking what music was originally specified by the composer for an instrumentation that included lute and recorder? Or what music can be done with a combination that includes lute and

Re: Tempo / Performance speed

2004-06-11 Thread Toby
G.R. Crona wrote: Hi gang, I'm playing some golden age and Milano at the moment, and suddenly realize, that (for me) much of the music actually gains in stature by not being played too fast (cf. La compagna). For me, playing music is quite like speaking. When speaking, I can just iterate

Odd tablature notation

2003-12-31 Thread toby
There are a couple of pieces in a book that I have of the lute music of Vincenzo Capirola. Here is an example: http://tobiah.org/measure.jpg It seems to indicate that a half bar should be used at the fourth fret, but I can't figure out any way to get a reasonable sound by playing the