Me too for the last 5(?) years and the only program I run on it is
Fronimo which works mostly fine. (ok, and Firefox to download the
newest Fronimo 3 from time to time ;^) My only slowdown is playing the
midi files. I have to save them as midi files, send them to the shared
folder and then
Sweet!
On Dec 26, 2008, at 3:40 AM, G. Crona wrote:
Francesco Duet at:
http://www.sgls.nu/media/film/Luta_05.ram
MC
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Has anyone experimented w/ tuning their ren guitar into a ukelele?
Sean Ducking Shoes Smith
On Dec 28, 2008, at 4:10 PM, Orphenica wrote:
Charles Browne schrieb:
it might have been better with gut stringing!
You are right!
When I first met Toyohiko Satoh, it seemed to me that he
was
I snuck in a couple of last-minuters just in case anyone puts up their
D-disco ball.
s
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Thanks Martin! At lest YOU remembered.
Happy New 2009
G.
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The linkydo:
http://vimeo.com/2678001
Sean
On Dec 31, 2008, at 7:16 AM, G. Crona wrote:
Thanks Martin! At lest YOU remembered.
Happy New 2009
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Thanks. Standard issue iSight.
Sean
On Dec 31, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Roman Turovsky wrote:
nice, and well shot.
rt
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Subject: [LUTE] Re: Happy New Year
It's a notation to use the middle finger. The [ ] is the cipher used
to signify two dots.
NV was surrounded by 9 and 10 -course lutes by that time and many
(most?) players would have been using thumb-out for the larger bridged
lutes. The 10-c doesn't make the thumb-under of older players
Sweetest thing I've read all day. Maybe just a bit too sweet.
s
On Jan 9, 2009, at 3:32 PM, A.J. Padilla, M.D. wrote:
Rather than change the lute, you could just treat the sinistrality.
There's
a new medication out now, called AmbiDextrose
-Original Message-
From: Ron
And the enevitable PC support as everyone must be given a choice of RH
or LH threads for jars and fasteners ...and strings. Aargh! Why
don't they make right/left-handed velcro shoes for that matter? Ok,
facetious again. [which is the only word in English where all the
vowells are in
Replacing strings is not bad, just spendy. ;^)
I reverse my roped basses for the 5th and 6th course but I use the
entire length and don't cut it. A 120cm length will not work on a 60cm
lute if I cut it in half. I make sure I have enough winding on the peg
to take a little tension off the
I think I read that in one of those holy books.
s
On Jan 17, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Guy Smith wrote:
Try the serpent sometime. I'll guarantee that you won't be able to
fake
it...
___
From: fournier...@gmail.com
What we have now is an autograph score (271 pgs, quarto) of Libro
d'intavolatura di liuto, ... Vincenzo Galilei ... 1584 as it may have
been sent to the printer but no record of its publishing. According to
the introduction it is currently in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
di Firenze:
Here's what I use on the computer. It's just called metronome as far
as I can see.
http://tinyurl.com/ddsfkb
Sean
On Jan 31, 2009, at 3:50 PM, Roman Turovsky wrote:
Would the Collective Wisdom recommend a metronome software for Mac?
RT
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Sorry, this is their main website:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~ronfleckner/metronome/
s
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Would the Collective Wisdom recommend a metronome software for Mac?
RT
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On Jan 31, 2009, at 5:00 PM, Leonard Williams wrote:
Interestingly, in regard to tempering
of frets, he never uses f#'s from different courses at the same time.
There wouldn't be much call for it as it's generally used as the 3rd of
a chord. Since that usually resolves in one direction any
On Feb 3, 2009, at 2:17 PM, chriswi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Unfortunately for human society, the strongest, best,
most sensible evolutionary advances in any field are
hopelessly pitted against an even more powerful and
ruthless force: fashion.
And advertising.
Sean
Chris
---
From my own experiance I would argue the other way but strongly believe
both approaches are valid.
For the past 8 years I've played only 6c lutes. The course cap was
entirely deliberate to cut down on instrument and genre overload.
Rather than having one 6c to play the pre-1600 rep, I have
Stuart,
Try the 1/4 comma to start; the thinking being to overdo the change so
you can more easily define its differences. You can always scale back
to 1/6 and compare. If you go the 1/4 comma route you may want to play
your lower F#s on the 6th G fret till you get a tastino, at least for
Help! I'm being Historically Informed!
...and I didn't want that to be in the lesson!
While we're talking about different styles to learn in order to be a
better all-around lutenist what are the chances of more than 1% of
this readership adopting it?
Sean
On Feb 9, 2009, at 10:04 AM,
If it's any consolation, two of the three fantods appear to be
left-handed.
On Feb 9, 2009, at 2:14 PM, Daniel Winheld wrote:
But if it's a flopped engraving we don't know which is the true
lefty-- might as well go back to the museum and puzzle over the
shovel
What about this picture
Clearly all this is subject to considerations of local pitch
standards
and national preferences...
There you go. Proclaim A to be 392 (or 377) for the south eastern
seaboard of the US and treat yourself to the nice new larger lute you
so royally deserve. The
not require the pedantic adjective
'historic'
as in historic local pitch..
MH
--- On Sat, 14/2/09, Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com wrote:
From: Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com
Subject: [LUTE] Re: Transposed Dowland songs - ruminations on lute
sizes around 1600
This is a point I'd like to understand better, too. Learning to fret
one's instrument and be (nominally) in tune w/ other instruments forces
us to confront meantone and understand it to some degree. If we always
play on our own or only with other ET instruments we don't have to.
When two
:18 PM, David van Ooijen wrote:
On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:09 PM, Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com wrote:
From your professional experiences, do choral directers ever
explicitly
choose a specific meantone scale? Do you ever get instructions to
(not)
temper your frets?
I'm a pro and get hired
For those of you who play with gut topstrings: Does anyone make a habit
of detuning the chanterelle(s) after a session of playing?
I've just bought a handful of expensive strings and wonder if this
would increase their lifespan. Any thoughts?
Sean
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ed
At 01:17 AM 3/8/2009 -0800, Sean Smith wrote:
One at a time sounds very productive in the learning department but
less
productive in the keeping-in-tune department.
I put on the new ones and they got stable within 5 minutes. I gave em
both
a quarterturndown after an hour and will watch
Aye, that's the operator. It sounds like as long as I keep any sudden
bends or angles out of string path and keep the channel and surfaces
lubed it should polish itself and not affect the string too much.
Thanks all! I'll let you know when we reach Snapville.
Sean
On Mar 10, 2009, at 3:38
You probably have a toy watermelon.
On Mar 15, 2009, at 7:21 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Mar 15, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Daniel Winheld wrote:
Anyway, lutes are no fun to shoot. Stumps, beer cans, and watermelons
are all much better.
I've never been able to get a decent sound out of a stump
On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:07 PM, Alexander Batov wrote:
The rise in pitch when the string is depressed (fingered) is more to
do with the increase in its tension, not lengthening. Or rather both
but the effect from the latter is negligible.
AB
Exactly. That is why you can raise the pitch
Hmmm. I just went to the Fender site and the YM Tribute model seems
more like low frets. I would think it's more advantage to have that
extra bending axis. I'm thinking more like a suspension bridge and
they're probably out there.
Sean
On Mar 19, 2009, at 5:59 PM, chriswi...@yahoo.com
It's not the tension but the stiffness of the strings that counts.
Peter.
I don't understand how that affects the pitch in this situation. The
pitch is tied to the tension and I can't increase the tension without
bending the string into the crevice. A stiff string wouldn't
Low-tech solution: Candle and dedicated butter knife (I say
'dedicated' because the blade will discolor and 'butter' because you
want the heat to cut, not the sharpness). Put the handle on a stack of
CDs and the blade over the candle. As the candle burns down remove a
CD or two. Be sure
Dear Simon,
The first half of the Ortiz book describes how to work w/ adding more
notes to a simple line so you may have everything you need there. As
the lutenist you can add more chords to strengthen the rhythm as you
like.
A good source for seeing how to break up those chords and add
from the Wisteria vines,
... like what I see growing from my 2nd course.
s
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On May 26, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Herbert Ward wrote:
The strings of a lute all have approximately the same
timbre, so that lute music is polyphonic and monotimbral.
Bologna. Various courses have different timbres. Furthermore we can
vary those timbres according to how we wish to interpret the
But I would much rather find the lost Joanna Maria
Allemani lute print of Petrucci to either of our two modern lost lute
manuscripts, given the choice. Dan
Hear hear. If anyone finds this lost item could they please turn it in
to the lost-and-found desk?
Many thanks in advance,
s
AND there was one of those German guitar-lutes on the wall!
Nanoo-nanoo,
s
On Jun 18, 2009, at 2:20 PM, Ron Fletcher wrote:
Slightly of topic...
If anyone remembers 'Mork Mindy' the TV comedy series with Robin
Williams,
Mindy's father ran a music-shop in Boulder, CO.
Hip-hip
And the double metal wounds struck together seem to reinforce
themselves so they ring f-o-r--e--v---ah !
Uuuwwaawaaaoooo, baby!
We 'stuck-in-the-rennaissance-touchy-feely-ropey-gut-types' just have
to go to longer lutes to get that kind of sustain-lovin' action.
That's a good trick, Leonard, and a real dollar saver. And the strobe
could be useful. On a good string in natural light it *should* be
difficult to pick out the wavy line of a false string. Still I wonder
if the strobe might give you the 'false positive' of a bad string.
Obviously I
Ned,
I second Stephen's comments and recommend getting there when you get a
chance. There are lots of little reasons that make it very satisfying.
In no particular order:
All the feedback you get from the teachers on playing and the
enevitable oh-so-that's-how-they-do-its.
All the
Not an important post but I just noticed a photo on the Lutening site
that I thought I'd share.
It's a 1529 Dutch painting by Jan Cornelisz Vermeyen that depicts the
wedding at Cana but the lute is very interesting. I'd guess it's about
50-55cms in stringlength with a nearly
I like your summation, Mathias. There seems to be something important
about the hands, too. They seem emphasised. One form of marriage was
the Hand Ceremony. (I'm sorry I don't have a definitive reference for
it; I read about it in a book about Shakespeare) Would this be
relevant at this
One other note on the painting is the lack of stylized halo. Instead
the plate held behind his head is held just so and the perfect
symmetry yields a holo-like object. Of course it will only exist
briefly if I might so interpret it.
There seems to be an elliptical shape created by the
If you're on an iMac you can record directly into iMovie using the
iSight.
iKnow for an iFact it iWorks.
Sean
On Aug 22, 2009, at 2:38 PM, nedma...@aol.com wrote:
I've found it helpul to make audio recordings of pieces I'm working
on. Now I'd like to add video, which I think would
Some DSLRs have a seperate Audio-in jack. If so you could go through a
USB mic, to whatever computer software you use, out the computer's
audio out jack and then into the camera to be recorded there. Check
what kind of audio files it can create first.
Or record audio into the computer,
that was delightful, Doc! I like what the cittern adds to the consort
as well. And the furniture does its part too!
I've played through a number of things w/ my local citternist and it
always wants something more than just a lute. But adding a lute or
two more and/or a bass viol
From http://tinyurl.com/nxmee2
NOVA ET ELEGANTISSIMA
IN CYTHARA LUDENDA CARMINA QUAE
VIDELICET IN SOLA CYTHARA VEL ETIAM CUM
tribus Testudinibus exhibita, mira dulcedina auiditorum possunt
oblectare, eaque omnia facilitate quam fieri potuit
summa in tyronum usum composita.
Et Primo quidem libro
I'll second that, Stewart.
We managed to have a read-thru a couple of years ago (sigh) and yes,
it's great stuff. With each person highlighting their phrases as vocal
parts it sounds a lot more like the ensemble music it really is than
any solo lute reduction. Furthermore it takes on a
Mindy and Ronn go back a long way. I remember the first incarnations
of the Renaissance Ensemble of Baltimore/Baltimore Consort w/ the two
of them (and others) at near freezing rehearsals in a heatless row
house.
Sean
On Oct 6, 2009, at 11:22 AM, nedma...@aol.com wrote:
Thanks for
hi Stuart,
I remember the suggested guitar string being the 1st (the high e). I had to add
a piece of tape to the non-business end in order to keep a better grip on it
and to keep it from twisting around in my sweaty little digits --and yes, to
find it later. So it really helps to add
I didn't. No reverbs or sound enhancements or edits. It took a good
many (ok, a bad many ;^) takes to get a reasonable piece together.
Unfortunately the ones in the rep I like are often 3-6 minutes in
length. By the end of the session I couldn't believe my exhaustion.
And plenty of
I like how the conversation can flag but we all know the playing
continues.
Does anyone else see the lutenet as an afterdinner conversation? In my
analogy sometimes we wander off to a room and mention we have a tune
going, so to speak. It's in that spirit that I don't feel the need to
Siena or Capirola? Casteliano's Diversi Autori or a Francesco
facsimile? Paladino or Il Fronimo? An earlier Phalese or an
Adriaenssen? The Dowland, de Rippe or Francesco anthologies? Marsh or
Pickering? The big Besard or the Varietie? LoST or the Holmes books?
Mary Anne or Ginger?
Hi Stuart,
Margit actually flew out to the LSA seminar in Ohio a few years ago to
play duos with Crawford. Yes, it's in the hammered dulcimer family,
yep, sure sounds great and believable in that context and, oh yeah, is
she ever in control!
It looks like a pretty versatile instrument
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLjQdLMYpg
JD works it some more. Popstars got his thumb in the door; now it's
time to break out the big tools: i-memes and jib-jab.
N ur strngbox, nibblng spgtti,
smthy
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Hoops, mon. TCamp.
Cute-glaze, addled brain.
s
On Oct 22, 2009, at 12:44 PM, Sean Smith wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyLjQdLMYpg
JD works it some more. Popstars got his thumb in the door; now it's
time to break out the big tools: i-memes and jib-jab.
N ur strngbox, nibblng
for it.
Thanks, John!
Sean Smith
On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:20 PM, Peter Martin wrote:
John's achievement is even more staggering when you see it all
listed
in one place:
[1]http://www.lutesoc.co.uk/pages/john-robinson
and then realise that he also has a day job as a professor of
immunology
[2
Dear Anthony,
I recommend the close to medium prescription for lute playing and this
should differ slightly from a regular reading prescription. When you
next go to get glasses tell them you want reading glasses for a
specific distance. Measure your eyeball to music stand distance before
I have a medical prescription for 6 courses or less. Adequate.
Sean
On Dec 11, 2009, at 7:59 AM, howard posner wrote:
I just want to remind everyone that operating a theorbo while under
the influence of alcohol is not only illegal, but extremely dangerous.
Sorry for the interruption.
Very nice, Chris!
and congratulations on the solstice(-ish) arrivals.
s
On Dec 24, 2009, at 8:14 AM, chriswi...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi all,
Its that time again - time for eggnog, fruitcake, extended time with
extended family, desperate last minute trips to the mall... and of
course,
I haven't seen any modern editions. Are you looking for any pieces in
particular?
It's a pretty legible book but hard to find.
Happy New year, Leonard --and all ;^)
Sean
On Jan 4, 2010, at 3:25 PM, Leonard Williams wrote:
Does any body know of a good edition of the Board Lute Book?
I counted up the pegs and got a 9-c lute: treble rider (w/ broken
chanterelle)+ 6 courses on the main pegbox and 2 doubled courses on
the extension. Otoh, it might be 3 doubled courses on the extension
making it a 10-c, tho. 10 frets on the neck. Fitting for the time and
perfect for
Something else comes to mind about the curious pegboxes. If one was
updating a 6-c for 9/10 courses, it would make sense to reuse the old
6-c pegbox. That would explain the different angles. Yes, the neck
would be new as would be the extension pegbox but why remake the other
pegbox if it
An archcittern, Gernot? That broken chanterelle curls like gut to my
eye.
Sean
On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:51 AM, Gernot Hilger wrote:
Hi Franz,
the instrument in this pic is of course not a lute, but an
archcittern. Looks like a Hamburger Cithrinchen with extended bass
range.
Gernot
chanterelle.
Or do you once again have a mousepad with better resolution by any
chance?
Gernot
Zitat von Sean Smith lutesm...@mac.com:
An archcittern, Gernot? That broken chanterelle curls like gut to
my eye.
Sean
On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:51 AM, Gernot Hilger wrote:
Hi Franz
What kind of glue are you using on those parsnips? Remember, the
organic ones need longer clamping time.
s
On Feb 15, 2010, at 11:45 AM, Daniel Winheld wrote:
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
Thanks for sending in the photo, Alexander. I think this is an
important lute for the archives showing a good transitional
solution. ... and a lute I wouldn't mind finding on my dining room
table.
The music is very legible, too. I'm sorry I don't know enough song rep
to figure it out.
It's very neat, too. But as for double frets.
Do it twice!
Honestly, it works though it doesn't seem HIP whatsoever. The
advantage being you only need to replace one half (always take off the
more worn fret and replace it w/ a new one on the bridge side).
Anyway, I've done the
Well, Dan, there's that special tomato knot that defies comprehension
standing between me and HIP in this case. Can you imagine doing that
w/ those monster 1mm 1st and 2nd frets? Brrr.
I don't know if anyone answered the question on how often to change
frets but I remember Jacob
. Is there a connection?
Best wishes,
Martin
Sean Smith wrote:
Well, Dan, there's that special tomato knot that defies
comprehension standing between me and HIP in this case. Can you
imagine doing that w/ those monster 1mm 1st and 2nd frets? Brrr.
I don't know if anyone answered the question on how
Good point, Alexander. There could easily be an aesthetic point to a
slight bray and I confess to enjoying this aspect of double frets.
Although unrelated to renaissance music as we know it, many Indian
instruments like the vina, sitar and tamboura have a braying mechanism
just north of
to learn about this
Martin
Sean Smith wrote:
Good point, Alexander. There could easily be an aesthetic point to
a slight bray and I confess to enjoying this aspect of double frets.
Although unrelated to renaissance music as we know it, many Indian
instruments like the vina, sitar
Interesting, incidentally, this business of solo versions of
Lachrimae
in two different keys. How often does this happen? I can think off
the top of my head of Danyel's Rosa and Milano's Janequin Bataille.
Why did people bother doing what is in effect a complete rewrite?
It goes
On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:05 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Feb 24, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Martin Shepherd wrote:
Also one has to ask whether Francesco da Milano, brilliant though
he must have been, was actually able to invent extended strict
canons without recourse to mensural notation. Some of
them.
The best known reference is a letter from Annibale Capello to
Guglielmo
Gonzaga of 18 October 1578 concerning Palestrina intabulating some of
the movements of his Missa Dominicalis. See Jessie Ann Owens,
Composers
at Work (1997), p. 309
JG
On 25/02/2010, at 10:59, Sean Smith
ddh
I can see this approach easily enough. What I couldn't see was playing
through large liturgical works and getting the whole picture. I'm sure
he could play enough to let his mind fill in the rest.
Sean
On Feb 24, 2010, at 5:29 PM, David Tayler wrote:
I think Howard is right on
On Mar 12, 2010, at 10:39 AM, Ron Andrico wrote:
Hello Howard All:
I have to say that contrapuntal lines CAN actually connect at a
tempo
slower than today's espresso-driven pace if the player can relax and
resist the urge to push.
This is an important point along w/ Howard's
But
It's nothing like a percussionist converting to piccolo.
I thought you just hold one in each hand and keep bashing away!
Not that my lute technique is much better.
Sean
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On
Behalf Of
My experience on the smaller diameter courses:
As gut ages it goes sharp on the upper frets.
As Nylgut ages it goes flat on the upper frets though I only notice
this on the smaller diameter (chanterelle 4th 8ve) strings.
At different rates, of course.
s
On Apr 21, 2010, at 2:47 PM,
So, do theorboes work better for casting or trawling?
Sean
On Jun 9, 2010, at 9:05 PM, Laura Maschi wrote:
Thank you all...
so Inow I'll go to the fishing store and check what we have there.
By the way...I think I will tie all my nylguts and go fishing!
:-)
Laura
2010/6/10
On Jun 10, 2010, at 6:15 AM, Roland Hayes wrote:
Not very flattering to us players, but what if these depictions are
of someone not playing loud as possible but merely providing the
muzak to the moment, the kind of unsurprising unremarkable music
that makes a cocktail party a little
I kept my eyes closed through half of that movies so I wouldn't have
to watch Gerard D wringing that poor gamba's neck in time to some
other piece of music! Tous les moments of that movie couldn't end soon
enough.
Nice music tho
s
On Jun 11, 2010, at 1:44 PM, wikla wrote:
One
. Vive la France!
G.
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To: lute-cs.dartmouth.edu lute@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, June 11, 2010 11:13 PM
Subject: [LUTE] Re: lute sighting
I kept my eyes closed through half of that movies so I wouldn't have
to watch Gerard D
I think the movie works at least well as a loose post-modernist
adaption of Cyrano de Bergerac where we (as Roxane) wish Jordi Savall
would reveal his true self instead of through the proxy of Gerard
Iron Grip Depardieu.
And that's my most generous spin on it. Maybe get Steve Martin to
Dear collected wisdom,
I've been asked to accompany Todo quanto pudo dar by Guerrero
preferably on renaissance guitar (I don't have a vihuela) or, if needs
be, on lute. I can tune the 4th course down on the guitar to get most
of the tenor range giving me 3 voices to work with.
Phalese printed many of his tablature books with 5 lines instead of 6
(the botttom line missing). Once you get the hang of it --and it's not
hard, really-- any blank manuscript paper/notebook works. That's what
I used for years till Fronimo arrived.
Sean
On Jun 22, 2010, at 7:01 AM,
of the DIY-elements of
playing
the lute? I'm probably getting my luthier to do things that I
ought to
be able to do myself. Where should we go to teach ourselves how to
do
this without destroying our instrument during the learning?
Graham Freeman
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Sean Smith
The Castelfranco, right?
This is wonderful news. Thanks for keeping us posted, Goeren!
Sean
On Jul 6, 2010, at 12:41 PM, G. Crona wrote:
Hallo, It seems that, at last, we will have a complete fac-simile
of the ms., I hope it will come before the end of 2010. The editor
will be Franco
Thanks for putting that up, Wayne. Interesting that they chose a
Gerle(?) 6-c for the design.
s
On Jul 9, 2010, at 8:42 AM, wayne cripps wrote:
Hi folks -
The luthier Mel Wong has a lute on my lutes for sale web page
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute/forsale.html
which is made
I just checked how it works on my lute and, yes, I get a slight
difference, too. I guess my ear has been absorbing it. There are a lot
of factors going into it so it'll be pretty complex trying to find the
root(s) of this. I'll assume you have your frets set to the proper
meantone place
I'm starting to agree w/ Ed more on the idea that a monofilament
nylgut rings at more than one frequency, confounding the ear and tuner
box. Ironically, I think the near perfect smoothness and controlled
diameter do this. It is very near perfect when manufactured and
unstretched but
, (because it is a highly flexible
string), it makes a beautiful sound and excellent intonation. Never
perfect, but it is closer than anything else I have ever tried.
ed
At 10:36 AM 7/11/2010, Sean Smith wrote:
I'm starting to agree w/ Ed more on the idea that a monofilament
nylgut rings
diameters in order to end up at
the desired tension.
Best to All,
Martin
Sean Smith wrote:
snip
Guts, otoh, either stretch more evenly or somehow cover for their
discrepant tones. Nylon, being more stable, keeps its diameters
over length more evenly. Unfortunately, nylon is a little
...
...
...
...
... timing!
;^)
Sean
On Jul 19, 2010, at 1:37 PM, wikla wrote:
Dear Bruno,
I do. What is the question?
Well, I guess I know: I perhaps would play it
|\ |\\ |\
| . ||
||
32 0
3 1 0
... and then back off a few degrees.
On Jul 24, 2010, at 6:16 PM, howard posner wrote:
On Jul 24, 2010, at 5:47 PM, Herbert Ward wrote:
What is the maximum safe temperature for a lute?
I can't wait to see the experiment protocol for this one.
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I remember reading through the Pifaro Belly bon-bon and not being
impressed by its resemblance to the popular chanson. I'll check it
again when I get home.
The MC La from Ms 266 is the real Stewart McCoy, though, and an
excellant setting.
my two cents,
Sean
On Aug 9, 2010,
On Aug 9, 2010, at 10:04 AM, Sean Smith wrote:
I remember reading through the Pifaro Belly bon-bon and not being
impressed by its resemblance to the popular chanson. I'll check it
again when I get home.
The MC La from Ms 266 is the real Stewart McCoy, though, and an
excellant
Dear all,
Though this arises coincidentally from the Passereau question, it's
actually been brewing in my head for some time. For a lute student of
between 1-3 years what would you suggest are the 5 most important
facsimiles to own? I was going to say have access to but I feel that
any
David,
I take it you're looking for a couple of no-page-turns, lots-o'-
variety readable books. Pickering can work if you're sure you've got
enough light. Phalese '68 has quite a few dances and oodles of anticho
noodles + quite a few chansons that might work in your case too. I
know this
Dear Dr Nightingale,
I like your attitude, sir, and will resist billing you for any editing
and reconstruction of your extensive catalogue.
sincerely yours,
Sean Smith
On Aug 16, 2010, at 12:56 PM, Peter Nightingale wrote:
Thanks to all of you --Chris, Dana, Ron, Ed, David-- who
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