Dear Martin and others--
Could you give advice on specifics for stringing an attiorbato with no wound
strings? I have an attiorbato sized 57x85 and it is currently tuned in g at
415hz. All double courses except the top string. At this size should I go to a
higher pitch? I would like to try
I just had a quick scan - will read the text later. It looks beautiful,
but I can't get the sound file to play. I'm on an iMac, using Safari.
Rob
On 18 October 2014 16:06, Martin Shepherd [1]mar...@luteshop.co.uk
wrote:
Hi All,
You can now see and hear more detail on
Hi Martin,
That's a nice essay on the instrument. Thanks for championing the doubled
courses - and the doubled top course. (I have a doubled chanterelle on my bass
lute and do appreciate it.) And it's a stunning lute!
I was not able to play the Piccininni for some reason. I tried it in two
it is slow loading, but works fine if you have Quicktime.
RT
On 10/18/2014 11:58 AM, Sean Smith wrote:
Hi Martin,
That's a nice essay on the instrument. Thanks for championing the doubled
courses - and the doubled top course. (I have a doubled chanterelle on my bass
lute and do appreciate
Get Martin to build you one- then you can play it anytime without any
damn Quicktime or lazy browsers.
On 10/18/2014 8:58 AM, Sean Smith wrote:
Hi Martin,
That's a nice essay on the instrument. Thanks for championing the doubled
courses - and the doubled top course. (I have a doubled
Martin- that is one sweet looking masterpiece; I would have killed for
one (or paid you to build one!) back in 1999 when I was working on
Piccinini a whole lot. Perfect symmetry! The historic survivors vary a
bit in this regard, yours looks just like one of the better ones that I
have seen.
Thank you again Martin for having built such a wonderful instrument for
me. it was my request to have an instrument as close as possible to the
disposition of the surviving models, because I was persuaded that by
doing so, it could reveal unexpected solutions of unsolved musical and
