Hydrate with a humidifier. A lot of Guitar shops carry little humidity
devises for putting in the guitar case I assume that would work with the
Lute as well. I am also assuming that since I bought my humidifier there
have been many and more sophisticated devices available.
Vance Wood
Hi Jon:
Very well put and touching. It is true many love music who will never be
able to play it, others play it and will never be able to play it well but
it is the love of the same that makes us kindred spirits.
Vance Wood.
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and come up with a different sounding instrument each time.
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Lautenliste
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 1:12 AM
Subject: Re
of
producing.
Vance Wood.
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From: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2004 7:14 AM
Subject: A lute's moment of truth.
Does a lute maker know how a lute is going to sound as he's building it?
Or, is he unsure until he has put
people know that you
enjoy playing the Lute, and that you enjoyed playing it for them.
Vance Wood.
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From: bill [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Candace Magner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 17, 2004 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: Being gracious as a performer
of St. Mary's. If they come at you with excuses
then you can address those issues. But, really, in cases like this the less
said the better, and offering up empty compliments will do nothing but make
you look condescending at patronizing.
Vance Wood.
purchase lasts for
years. I have found if I order twice as many first and fourth courses per
set I cover the breakage pretty well.
Vance Wood.
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From: Alain Veylit [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 09, 2004 6:38 PM
Subject: Re: More
and it was not pretty
or cheap. I would say half the life span (or less) of plain Nylon. So? I'm
not that traditional but I have found that an out of tune Lute is more
difficult for me to play.
Vance Wood.
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From: Tim Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED
the
nature of which I am unaware of. So before someone else says it, I am
unaware of a lot of things, I just offer an opinion.
Vance Wood.
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From: G.R. Crona [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, June 10, 2004 1:41 PM
Subject: Tempo / Performance
would otherwise
be your friends . There are several lists on the net that revel in the
kinds of discussions that from time to time tear this little group apart, go
there where you will get as good as you give.
Vance Wood.
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED
you go.
Vance Wood.
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From: Arto Wikla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 3:45 PM
Subject: Goodbye!
Dear lutenists, _really dear_ lutenists!
To me the previous events in the world, those that I could even call
war crimes and crimes
where the line
begins is to be held to the point where the line ends.
Vance Wood.
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From: Craig Robert Pierpont [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, May 23, 2004 8:43 AM
Subject: Tablature
Hi List,
I am looking at some tablature and there are some
that you are not
able to keep private what was sent to you in private. It shows me a lot
about you and I am disappointed.
Vance Wood.
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From: Arto Wikla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2004 4:26 PM
Subject: Re
, this
does not belong on the Lute list and I really wish you would post this kind
of stuff somewhere else. Thank You
Vance Wood.
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From: Arto Wikla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 4:21 PM
Subject: Re: Off
the neck in the V
of the thumb and first finger. This leads to all kinds of problems that can
become habit once you stop agonizing over the right hand and start realizing
you still can't play because now you are not fingering the frets properly.
Vance Wood.
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From: [EMAIL
you into using Gorilla
Glue. This is a Water and Ploy Urethane based glue, and will permanently
glue almost any thing but it is a nightmare to clean up and the squeeze out
swells and makes a mess all over everything. If it dries on the finish it
has to be chiseled off.
Vance Wood.
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Another good one, a shot across the bow from Roman. It is probably a good
idea that you did not root your pot either.
Vance Wood.
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From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 4:11
Are we sure that this is not just a quest for some to find historical
evidence to support their tendency to be as nasty to everyone as is
possible?
Also I have read that one of the Gaultiers was involved in a murder. It
seems that the brothers were a wild bunch.
Vance Wood.
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before they were cutting them down and making Lutes of them.
Vance Wood.
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From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 6:13 AM
Subject: Re: Non-lute composers poll.
Another good one, a shot across the bow from
Drear Bernd:
There was a discussion on this very issue not too long ago. Search the
archives on the subject and you should be busy reading for a few days. From
what I remember the consensus seems to be that it does make a difference.
Vance Wood.
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could go back to some mythical good ol' days. I know enough about the
history of that period to know, with my disposition, I would not last a
week. I don't dress up in period costumes unless I am called to do a gig
that requires it like a period festival.
Vance Wood.
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, were converted
into Hurdy Gurdys.
Vance Wood.
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From: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, March 05, 2004 1:58 PM
Subject: Why paintings but no lutes?
Support also comes ... from paintings
It seems that much of the evidence about early
Thank you Ron, I agree. Browsers don't always give you everything available
without looking through pages and pages of links.
Vance Wood.
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From: Ron Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2004 9:41 AM
Subject
that way.
I know some will respond that they play thumb under on a 13 course Lute.
That's fine, I am not trying to convert anyone one way or the other, I am
merely voicing a point of view as skewed as it may be wrong.
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED
want to.
Vance Wood.
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From: Jason Kortis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:58 AM
Subject: Fingerpicks
Hello all,
I read that Milano experimented w/fingerpicks - has anyone tried this?
Jason
Would it be possible for anyone with access to a link showing said
painting/image please post a link? I would be most grateful.
Vance Wood.
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From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: adS [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2004 12:00 PM
political
rhetoric from time to time so I don't see how you are creating a problem.
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Lute List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:22 PM
Subject: Re: Notations
be substantial.
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Edward C. Yong [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 8:58 PM
Subject: Re: Archlute damage
Edward,
I don't have a mental picture of the upper pegbox on an archlute, but I
think
might think. If the joint you are gluing is not clean and free of debris it
will not stick well and will break apart easily, and it is UV sensitive and
will break down quickly when exposed to a good deal of direct sun light.
Vance Wood.
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From: Steve Ramey [EMAIL
are supplied with
the base line and a series of numbers that designate chord inversions. Do
you think this might work for you? As I remember in Guitar related fake
books most of the time things were set up around a chord progression.
Just a thought
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon
Lutenists, to no
avail.
Vance Wood.
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From: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, February 12, 2004 10:47 AM
Subject: Elizabethan pieces for gov. figures.
I've noticed several Dowland pieces with titles honoring governmental
). With the thumb out this passage is awkward and difficult to
play using thumb and index unless you do it thumb under, then it just falls
right into place.
Vance Wood.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 9
Second test, first did not go through.
there were other factors involved here but his
conversion to Catholicism seems to be the major excuse given.
God forbid, but dare we discuss The Plague?
Vance Wood.
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From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Caroline Usher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Vance Wood [EMAIL
Wow! That's a good one Roman, you really got me that time.
Vance Wood.
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From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LUTE-LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 6:55 PM
Subject: Re: Church authority in the Renaissance.
I might add that it is said
with a heretic nation, not just a heretic monk.
And yes you are right there were a lot of other factors, movers and shakers,
but the ones I have mentioned are cruicial.
Vance Wood
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From: Caroline Usher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL
The Saustscheck fraud continues? Or am I missing something here?
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From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: LUTE-LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, January 23, 2004 2:35 PM
Subject: vite liutistiche
Dear e-friends,
A few days ago a couple of very interesting
from an audience point of view we did not suck. I remember only once having
a tuning problem in five years.
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Arto Wikla [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 19, 2004 9:25 PM
about the Lute body producing or resonating at a particular pitch it was
with this in mind. Of course it is still possible that we are assigning a
function to the Lute body from our technical understanding of acoustics that
was totally ignored by the original builders, or maybe not.
Vance Wood
takes instant root
if allowed to do so. This also means that you have to, at some point,
practice the piece with this in mind, you just can't do it out of the gate
so to speak.
Vance Wood.
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From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mathias Rösel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc
thinking. That area of the brain where doubt and panic enter in are occupied
with something related to playing the composition.
Vance Wood.
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From: Ed Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Tim Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2004 12:57 AM
dry
properly. If you are not familiar with finishes and how to work with them I
would not recommend doing this your self. As I said earlier it is important
to know what kind of finish you are working with before you experiment.
Vance Wood.
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From: sterling price [EMAIL
to learn how to
play the first course the same way you play the second, or third course for
that matter. If done correctly the doubled course sounds fine, in my
opinion, even better than the single string ,even with diminutions.
Vance Wood.
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From: Arne Keller [EMAIL
room as an ahistorical bore that does not have a clue and should not be
allowed to even look at a Lute let alone own one and try to play it.
Vance Wood.
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From: David Rastall [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 6:00 PM
Subject
on
this instrument? Some of them appear to be over-spuns. Would it be rude to
ask what the price on this Lute might be?
Vance Wood.
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From: Martin Shepherd [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2004 4:17 AM
Subject: new pictures
Dear All
/hear someone
of some repute start playing the instrument strung this way.
I understand you not wanting to post the price, I will check out your site
for that information. I would love to hear this instrument and love to play
it even more.
Vance Wood.
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From: Martin
of the two strings will become
false. This demands that the string be replaced, and probably the entire
course, there is no way to adjust the difference in the two strings, the
falseness becomes pronounced within two frets.
Vance Wood.
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From: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL
be revealed by
taping on the bridge with the index finger. Usually the dead spots are in
the middle ranges. It becomes necessary to trim the afore mentioned bars to
get these dead or tight spots to lighten up.
Vance Wood.
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From: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
play them, or our generation of builders who cannot
make them properly, they are missing some critical if miniscule detail that
makes all the difference.
Thank you for you post the response has been interesting.
Vance Wood.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL
being
made of other woods though I am sure there were a few. In my opinion Yew
was a desirable wood because it was both light and extremely hard. It is
also possible when wood cut the way bow wood was cut provided a resonant
quality because of the hard wood soft wood interplay.
Vance Wood
of the
union of the bowl and the sound board. Then some Lute makers will add an
edge trim that is cut into the top edge of the sound board with a special
plane, some makers leave this edge pristine.
Vance Wood.
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From: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
the place. However it has now become a recognizable part of the =
ecosystem.
Vance Wood.
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From: Michael Stitt=20
To: Vance Wood ; lute list=20
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 3:51 PM
Subject: Re: The ecological sustainable lute luthier
Vance,
When I
our domestic woods would be, to someone living in Brazil, looked on
the same way we look on tropical hard woods and their use. So really the
argument should not be the use of tropical woods but a sane and reasonable
management of them, as with all woods every where.
Vance Wood.
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to it.
Vance Wood.
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From: Doctor Oakroot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 15, 2003 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: calling Dr. Helmholtz...
Ed Margerum wrote:
At 9:57 PM -0800 12/14/03, Vance Wood wrote:
Hi Bill:
Freud
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From: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: bill sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 9:56 PM
Subject: Re: calling Dr. Helmholtz...
Hi Bill:
Freud said it best: Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. I was once told
that the rose was to keep rats
Dear Michael:
I don't understand why you have to call anybody names. That's kind of
juvenile is it not? It seems to me that when a debate degrades to the point
of name calling someone has run out of salient points and must resort to
insults.
Vance Wood.
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From
Dear:
I don't remember MO saying that, though I do not doubt it. I know he has a
temper as bad as any on this list, and a mouth to match. However, and from
whatever source, the calling of names is silly and fruitless. I don't
defend him.
Vance Wood.
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From: Michael
to wish to convey.
Vance Wood.
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From: arielabramovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 1:22 AM
Subject: Re: State of Lutenet (was Size of the lute world)
Dear Vance,
you
No, he tossed it out openly, if it is true why should he be ashamed of the
circumstances.
Vance Wood.
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From: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: State
that there are a few who have responded
to this dreary posting who don't understand that. I have always been of the
opinion that this group was considered highly educated, I guess I am wrong
on that point.
Vance Wood.
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From: arielabramovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL
to want
to avoid. I did not start this but I am not going to cowed into backing
down on it either.
Vance Wood.
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From: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:29 PM
Subject: Re
the statement, and tossed it out on the
tired old string of personal assaults as a defense for making the Nazi
comment. I simply asked how this was possible.
Vance Wood.
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From: Doctor Oakroot [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09
to make in
your original message. If so forgive me.
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:23 PM
Subject: Tab versus Staff
I beg your indulgence for not reading all the postings on the topic
I agree Stewart, but that's the problem. There just are not that many easy
Lute pieces, that are not something composed by a modern teacher for
student use, available in the ancient literature.
Vance Wood.
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From: Stewart McCoy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Lute Net [EMAIL
was once told there are no easy
Lute pieces, just some that are less difficult.
Vance Wood.
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From: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 9:45 AM
Subject: Pieces similar to A Toye.
In the UC Berkeley music library I saw
How can your sister be Jewish and you are not? Or are you referring to
choosing the Jewish faith of her husband?
Vance Wood.
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From: Michael Thames [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED];
arielabramovich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
Michael:
Your ability to see only what you want to see, and understand what you want
to understand is a true source of amazement.
Vance Wood.
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From: Michael Thames [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December
to be
sure) thrown at me for suggesting such a thing for a beginner.
Vance Wood.
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From: Ron Fletcher [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 8:46 AM
Subject: Fwd: Re: Something useful and nice for our newbies
How about John Dowland's
notation
demands that you figure it out for you on your own. Remember, we are not
talking about arrangements with editorial notes and fingering notes, just
the difference in notation.
Vance Wood.
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From: Howard Posner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday
Wood.
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From: Ed Margerum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, December 07, 2003 7:31 AM
Subject: Re: Size of the lute world
At 8:27 PM -0800 12/6/03, Vance Wood wrote:
As a whole I have never been exposed
to a group, boasting interest
they get paid to be that dense)
Vance Wood.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, December 03, 2003 9:58 PM
Subject: Re: Facsimeles etc.
To all,
Am I the only one who finds the name calling
the
hand copied collection on the net? How would this scenario stand in the
ongoing debate?
Vance Wood.
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From: Michael Thames [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matanya Ophee [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 10:32 PM
Subject: Re: Facsimeles etc
. They all sounded
pretty much the same unless there was something different about the sound
board in the way it was made or the materials used. Of course I am not a
professional builder, I am a hobby builder, but I do know a little about it.
Vance Wood.
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From
number
and not just an arbitrary one.
Vance Wood.
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From: Ken Brodkey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 8:16 AM
Subject: string spacing
Hello,
I'm back to lute making after a very long absence and would like to get
people's
. In any case
they had to have been put there when the top was off. According to Lundberg
this was not an uncommon practice for the builder that modified an existing
Lute to also put his identification on the inside of the instrument.
Vance Wood.
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From: Michael Thames
Dear Arthur:
Thank you very much for the information, both about the Broude Bros. and
Chris Goodwin. I will contact Chris ASAP.
Vance Wood.
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From: Arthur Ness (boston) [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 10:29 PM
Subject
Dear Arto:
What is the string length of this instrument? It looks to be about the same
size as my Lute. By the way it is a beautiful Lute. Back appears to be of
Rosewood which goes really well with what appears to be an ebony veneered
neck, as we have been discussing in another string.
Vance
be robbing
yourself by not knowing it.
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/tab-serv/tab-serv.cgi
The Fantasia is #31 it is available at the following location. You will
need Adobe Acrobat Reader, something you can download from the internet for
free if you do not have.
Vance Wood.
said it
could not.
Vance Wood.
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From: Michael Thames [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: G.R. Crona [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ed
Durbrow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, November 21, 2003 6:35 PM
Subject: Re: Iconography (was:The Right Hand Revisited
Roman wrote: So you went for a bonsai lute..
Leave it to you to have nothing good to say to, or about, anyone. We went
for what we perceived as an accurate portrayal of some of the Lutes being
played. Incidentally bonsai is a tree in a pot.
Vance Wood.
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from one source saying that Van Wilder's works are hard to find to a book
that must rival the Encyclopedia Britannica in volumes- or perhaps it
is printed on real gold leaf.
Vance Wood.
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From: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
?
Vance Wood.
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From: David Van Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Roman Turovsky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: LUTE-LIST [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2003 1:07 PM
Subject: Re: fretted ud
Dear Roman,
Do you mean this picture which I've just copied from your page
to admit, due to an auto accident, I have concentrated on =
resolving these old issues.
Vance Wood.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: The Right Hand Revisited
Hi Vance,
I'm going to try
side of making the claims that the way it is done on the Guitar is wrong for
the Lute?
Vance Wood.
my opinion
freely offered and probably worth the price.
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ed Durbrow
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 15, 2003 12:45 AM
Subject: Re: Broken Chanterelle
Ed,
A bit
and
discovering the differences that make the thumb out on the Lute produce the
kind of sound that should come out of the instrument.
Vance Wood.
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From: Tim Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 7:16 PM
Subject: Re: Purpose
the peg holes with use.
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vance Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 2:01 AM
Subject: Re: Purpose of veneer.
Vance,
I must agree, but also disagree. My usual disclaimer
importance why do you continue to ask
questions of us. It seems you believe you have a better idea so it should
not matter what we think, or am I missing something here?
Vance Wood.
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From: Jon Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: lute list [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Vance Wood [EMAIL
with Ivory,
in ornate patterns. All of these are veneered and inlayed over a lighter
and softer core. Unless you are dealing with early Guitars most of them are
made from solid hard wood, one of the reasons a guitar is so much heavier
than a Lute.
Vance Wood.
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From
not become bound to the device and because of its use I no
longer find it necessary to tap the toe, or foot, which would make my former
teacher very happy.
Vance Wood.
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From: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, November 05, 2003 11:40 AM
to be
totally negative but it sounds to me like you are on your way to building a
Frankenlute.
Your question: Is it possible to build a GOOD LUTE. I'm not even sure you
could build a real crumby one this way, but a good Lute?, in my
opinion,---its not possible.
Vance Wood.
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courses are then
sounding almost as one and because the strings are vibrating together the
over tones are more clear and resonant. I don't know if I am making myself
understood. I hope someone will try this and figure out what is going on.
Vance Wood.
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From: Stewart McCoy
Wood.
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From: bill sterling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2003 4:28 PM
Subject: Re: Right Hand Questions
try playing with a snug surgical glove on your
Thank you James, the first reply that makes any sense, not that the others
weren't good, yours is doable.
Vance Wood.
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From: James A Stimson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Serge
and if so how do you maintain this condition through a session lasting
more than fifteen minutes? Or as I suspect what am I doing wrong ?
Vance Wood.
. I
will be interested to review additional answers to your question.
Vance Wood.
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From: Herbert Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Thursday, October 23, 2003 6:48 PM
Subject: How long can a lute last?
Excuse me if I'm raising an already-discussed
considering the
Martin Luther is said to have played the Lute though nothing is said as to
how well or how often.
Vance Wood.
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From: lutesmith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: Holbein, addendum
Ed,
Alas
, and Paganinni was said
to have sold his soul to the devil.
Vance Wood.
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From: lutesmith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 7:56 PM
Subject: Re: Holbein, addendum
Vance,
It is my understanding that the Lute's music was at some point
it was taught that
painters from this period had an almost obsession with, what we would call
photographic, accuracy in their work.
Vance Wood.
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From: Gernot Hilger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Sent: Sunday, October 19, 2003 12:20 PM
Dowland's
dance pieces being more recital compositions than pieces to be danced to
gets a mark in the win column. Either way it brings up some thought on both
sides of the issue.
Vance Wood.
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