[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-03-01 Thread Anthony Hind
rosław Lipski a écrit : > Anthony, > I know these articles very well, but they don't answer some very > difficult questions. As I repeatedly say, I am not against this > theory. What I am only asking for is to call this hypothesis a > hypothesis, taking into account the pr

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-28 Thread Jarosław Lipski
27;t think it's too much. Some other real possibilities do exist as well, as explained in this thread. Regards Jaroslaw - Original Message - From: "Anthony Hind" To: "lute List" Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 12:34 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hy

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-28 Thread Anthony Hind
Le 28 févr. 09 à 23:39, alexander a écrit : > http://www.aquilacorde.com/articles4.htm And you can see Mimmo taking various measurements, explained in the article above at this link : http://www.aquilacorde.com/researches.htm Note that he does not just measure lute bridge holes. The same

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-28 Thread alexander
http://www.aquilacorde.com/articles4.htm On Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:36:10 +0100 Jarosław Lipski wrote: > Mimmo told me that he actually checked 70 lutes from which only 50% had > original bridges. On the total, 13 were 13 course -lutes (not important > here); 13 were 11 course lutes (d minor, of

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-28 Thread Jarosław Lipski
ginal Message - From: To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 7:18 PM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] How many lutes were mesured for bridge hole's diameter? 10, 20 or 30? I dnot see that we need a complete or even a substantial survey

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded? & bridge holes]

2009-02-28 Thread Daniel Winheld
We do know that Mimmo and others have measured a bunch. More than just a few, but of course not all them. (We don't even have all of them.) What would be real significant would be any old bridges that deviate from this- big holes for big gut strings. THAT would provide fuel for some real luteli

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] or soaked ...

2009-02-28 Thread demery
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009, Anthony Hind said: > Dana > I was quoting Daniel. Sorry, I messed up by leaving the attribution line in. -- Dana Emery To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-28 Thread demery
>>How many lutes were mesured for bridge hole's >>diameter? 10, 20 or 30? I dnot see that we need a complete or even a substantial survey. Any instance where the bridge was conceived as we see it and the diapason holes are significantly smaller than the holes for stoped basses is evidence tht

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-28 Thread Anthony Hind
chette or production run you might have a variance in color from pale ochre to burnt umbre. I hope this information helps you in your research. Cordially, Damian From: "Anthony Hind" To: "Jaroslaw Lipski" ; "alexander" ; "Monica Hall" ; "lute List"

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded and the rest]

2009-02-28 Thread Jean-Marie Poirier
future generations, >i.e. for us. We should read the book, and be grateful. > >Best wishes, > >Stewart McCoy. > > > >-Original Message- >From: Daniel Winheld [mailto:dwinh...@comcast.net] >Sent: 27 February 2009 16:41 >To: lute@cs.dartmouth.edu >Subjec

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-28 Thread Anthony Hind
Dear Jaroslaw Le 28 févr. 09 à 01:35, Jarosław Lipski a écrit : Dear Anthony, I really didn't want to rehash and old discussion (just wanted to share an interesting picture), but in a way I am beeing forced to reply, by your claims that finaly we found the satisfactory and historicaly cor

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread David Tayler
It isn't black and white. Paintings hold value; they are the postcards from the past. Mace has some good information, it just can't be taken at face value: the sense of the matter is elusive; that is its charm. To take everything as "real", the storied accounts, the catfish of Bosch playing the

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread damian dlugolecki
fourchette or production run you might have a variance in color from pale ochre to burnt umbre. I hope this information helps you in your research. Cordially, Damian From: "Anthony Hind" To: "Jaroslaw Lipski" ; "alexander" ; "Monica Hall" ; "lute Lis

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Dear Anthony, I really didn't want to rehash the old discussion (just wanted to share an interesting picture), but in a way I am beeing forced to reply, by your claims that finaly we found the satisfactory and historicaly correct answer for lute stringing. Not that I am doing it reluctantly -

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread howard posner
On Feb 27, 2009, at 12:50 PM, Stewart McCoy wrote: > People end up thinking that's all he had to say, that > he was eccentric, cranky, unreliable, to be treated with caution, etc. > Nothing could be more ridiculous. Mace was a player of the lute, viol > and theorbo, a composer, an enthusiast, and

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread David Tayler
I've heard and played a number of lutes strung all in gut that sound just fine. Where you start to get the clunky sound is on the low C on a ten course. I'm just going to assume that their strings were say, 20 percent better than ours. That would more than make gut stringing practical. Did they

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread howard posner
On Feb 27, 2009, at 11:54 AM, Anthony Hind wrote: > How do you account for small lutes like the Vienna Frey, without > the loading theory? Lute in A? In G at high pitch? Big honkin' monster soprano lute in D? -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread Anthony Hind
color. In a fourchette or production run you might have a variance in color from pale ochre to burnt umbre. I hope this information helps you in your research. Cordially, Damian From: "Anthony Hind" To: "Jaroslaw Lipski" ; "alexander" ; "Monica Hall" ;

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread damian dlugolecki
re. I hope this information helps you in your research. Cordially, Damian From: "Anthony Hind" To: "Jaroslaw Lipski" ; "alexander" ; "Monica Hall" ; "lute List" Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:23 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyr

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] or soaked ...

2009-02-27 Thread Anthony Hind
Dana I was quoting Daniel. These were his words: What precise parts of Mace's work do you find not 'reliable'. Storing lutes in beds. Smashed more theorbi than the airlines. Mine were ones saying how consistent Mace was, and the quoting Arthur Ness, in favour of this. Anthony

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread David Tayler
I don't see that the "Roman" analogy is a direct analogy; in the case of Apicius it is a tangled tale in a late source, with an overabundance of fish sauce. Varenne's 17th century cookbook is interesting because it is so different from those from other countries. There are

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] or soaked ...

2009-02-27 Thread demery
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009, Anthony Hind said: >>>What precise parts of Mace's work do you find not 'reliable'. >> Storing lutes in beds. Smashed more theorbi than the airlines. I fail to see how this makes Mace unreliable. I people followed that practice he is proven, only if not can he be prov

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] or soaked ...

2009-02-27 Thread Anthony Hind
What precise parts of Mace's work do you find not 'reliable'. (Descartes last words here) dt "Don't walk away, René..." Storing lutes in beds. Smashed more theorbi than the airlines. Daniel Actually this point goes very well together with the observations he makes on the rotten stri

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread Anthony Hind
tion helps you in your research. Cordially, Damian From: "Anthony Hind" To: "Jaroslaw Lipski" ; "alexander" ; "Monica Hall" ; "lute List" Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:23 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] Dear Jaroslaw and

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread demery
> Suppose he had written a cookbook that included a recipe for two > headed boar, and wrote a chapter on Italian spices. > Would later chefs take it seriously? actually, three are quite a few modern cooks who are working with surviving recipies from the time of the Romans and later who would have

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread Daniel Winheld
What precise parts of Mace's work do you find not 'reliable'. (Descartes last words here) dt "Don't walk away, René..." Storing lutes in beds. Smashed more theorbi than the airlines. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/inde

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread Martyn Hodgson
What precise parts of Mace's work do you find not 'reliable'. MH --- On Fri, 27/2/09, David Tayler wrote: From: David Tayler Subject: [LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" Date: Friday, 27 February, 2009, 1

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread Jarosław Lipski
m: "David Tayler" To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:01 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] Mace is not a reliable source, sadly. dt At 06:03 AM 2/26/2009, you wrote: Dear Anthony, I think we had this conversation some time ago, but no

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread Anthony Hind
n helps you in your research. > > Cordially, > > Damian > > From: "Anthony Hind" > To: "Jaroslaw Lipski" ; "alexander" > ; "Monica Hall" ; "lute > List" > Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:23 AM > Subject: [LUTE] R

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread David Tayler
Tayler" >To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" >Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:01 AM >Subject: [LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] > > >>Mace is not a reliable source, sadly. >>dt >> >> >>At 06:03 AM 2/26/2009, you wrote: >>>Dear

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-27 Thread Jarosław Lipski
What do you base your assumption on? JL - Original Message - From: "David Tayler" To: "lute-cs.dartmouth.edu" Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 6:01 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] Mace is not a reliable source, sadly. dt At 06:03 AM 2/26/20

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-26 Thread David Tayler
Mace is not a reliable source, sadly. dt At 06:03 AM 2/26/2009, you wrote: >Dear Anthony, > >I think we had this conversation some time ago, but nothing can be >said with certainty in the face of deficient evidence. > >>However, I wonder whether mild loading could not also have been used >>on ot

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-26 Thread alexander
Hear, hear! The loaded string is still a hypothesis, a working one, but hypothesis. Sometimes in detriment of the others, forgotten or neglected. alexander On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:08:43 -0800 "damian dlugolecki" wrote: > Dear Anthony, You seem to be intent on finding evidence to > support

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-26 Thread damian dlugolecki
Hind" To: "Jaroslaw Lipski" ; "alexander" ; "Monica Hall" ; "lute List" Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:23 AM Subject: [LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?] Dear Jaroslaw and All If they were neither loaded nor wound than th

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-26 Thread Anthony Hind
Dear Jaroslaw I will begin by the end: I have to stress here, that I am not against loaded strings even if it may sound paradoxicaly. I admire Mimmo's great contribution in finding the best strings for a modern lute player. I use his strings very often and will advice them to other mu

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-26 Thread Jarosław Lipski
Dear Anthony, I think we had this conversation some time ago, but nothing can be said with certainty in the face of deficient evidence. However, I wonder whether mild loading could not also have been used on other strings than basses, just to help conservation. Mace tells us about rotten stri

[LUTE] Re: Laurent de La Hyre [loaded?]

2009-02-25 Thread Anthony Hind
Dear Jaroslaw and All >If they were neither loaded nor wound than they must > have been dyed. This would solve the problem because the coloration > differences would be of aestethic nature or maybe manufacture's > trade mark. Perhaps, it is more than aesthetic, if we consider wh